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Show MEXICANS FIRE ON B0R0ERTR00PERS SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED OVER LINE, BUT NO LOSSES SUFFERED SUF-FERED BY AMERICANS. Forty-five Minute Battle Between Pa. trol in Big Bend Country in Texas and Party of Thirty Mexicans Across Frontier. San Antonio, Texas. American troops and Mexicans clashed near San Jose, in the Big Bend country, Friday afternoon, according to a report re. ceived by General Funston from Colonel Colo-nel Joseph Gaston, commander of the district. The fight lasted forty-five minutes. No losses were suffered by the Americans, and Information ia lacking regarding loss among the Mexicans. Colonel Gaston's report said that a band of about thirty Mexicans opened fire on a detachment composed of twenty-three men of the Sixth cavalry cav-alry and Texas national guard cavalry squadron, engaged in patrol duty be tween Presidio and Ruidosa. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Cudington, commanding the troops, ordered his men to return the fire. A vigorous exchange of shots continued con-tinued for forty-five minutes, the Americans and Mexicans firing from covered positions on either side ot the Rio Grande. Colonel Gaston did not indicate that the United States troops crossed in pursuit of the Mexicans. Mexi-cans. After the fight Lieutenant Cudington returned to Ruidosa with his command. Whether the Mexicans were de facto-government facto-government troops or members of a bandit band was not known. |