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Show VILLA FLEES TO I HIS OLOJEIREAT BANDIT CHIEF REPORTED TO BE SURROUNDED BY AMERICAN ' AND MEXICAN TROOPS. If Bandit Makes a Stand it is Believed Campaign Will Soon Be Over, But ; it is Possible He May Hide in Mountains. , I El Paso, Texas. After marching ' more than 110 miles into Mexico in record marching time of forty-two ' hours, or at a speed of about thirty- three miles a day, the American pu nitive expedition has received infor-1 infor-1 mation apparently locating Francisco , Villa, the object of the chase. Pancho Villa has been driven into a trap by the rapid advance ofthe " American troops, according to the in-1 in-1 formation received here in wireless 1 dispatches from the front and in tele-1 tele-1 graphic messages to General Gabriel 1 Gavira, the Carranza commander at Juarez. '.' Everything seems now to depend on the ability of the Carranza garrisons to hold their end of the net. On three ' sides the bandit is hemmed in by strong Carranza columns, while on the fourth the American soldiers are driy ing forward with amazing speed. Ij A dispatch from Washington says Villa, fleeing with his outlaw follow ers the advance of the United State: expeditionary forces in Mexico, has d reached his own country in the Guer s rero district, where high officers ol the army said he may almost indefl nitely evade capture. If the bandii chieftain makes a stand, Washingtoi j is satisfied the campaign will quicklj i end; but if he leaves his followers h( )t can, military authorities agree, read y a haven of safety in the nearby moun a. tains in less than a day's riding. ,d In the Guerrero district and in tht ? country adjacent to Babricora, Villai at home. For years he operated ther. in defiance of the laws of Mexico am its constituted authorities. The moun u. tains to the west offer countless hid ;h ing places and routes of escape. I n- hard pressed, Villa might, officials be lieve, abandon his men, don the gar of a peon and flee so far into the sout Q that it would be exceedingly difficul if not impossible to apprehend him. |