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Show RELIEF AT WASHINGTON. Will be no Nececalty at Present for U. S. Troops to Cross Border. WASHINGTON, Feb. -..Manifest relief pervaded the -government department de-partment here today at tho restoration restora-tion of order at Juarez and tho removal re-moval for the present at least, of any necessity for American troops to tako a hand In tho disturbances along the border. Tho fall of Juaroz give3 to the In-surrectoa In-surrectoa a clear channel of entry for arms and ammunition Tho treasury department, as during tho Madero revolution, will allow all consignments consign-ments of goods, arms included to be received at El Paso and will transfor them to the authorities In possoeslon of tho custom house across the river, although Colonel Stcevor in command of tho American troops, had suggested suggest-ed that all munitions of war he prevented pre-vented from cnterins Mexico at the present. A demand will be made to presorvc neutrality, but shipments having tho nppoaranco of lawful trade, consigned from one dealer to a customer in Mexico, cannot be stopped, though arms shipped from American territory terri-tory and presenting with such shipment ship-ment evidence of a conspiracy formed on Amorican soil to engage in an armed expression against Mexico will be held. A lull in Insurreclo activity in somo parts of Mexico. Ensonada, Lower California, is said to be quiet. At Acapulco In southwestern Mexico, Mex-ico, a federal war vessel recently brought a force of federal soldiers, bound for the Interior At Sallna Cruz, another Pacific coast town, Is reported orderly. Telegraphic communication be-J be-J tween Saltlllo, capital of Coahulla, j however, and the city of Chihuahua, both In northern Moxico, has been cul. The Importance of outbreaks said to have occurred in Vora Cruz, Pueb-la, Pueb-la, and Oaxaca Is known here. t. - Americans In Danger. TORREON, Mex., Feb. 27 (Via telephone to VIesca, Moxico) American Amer-ican citizens besieged by rebels at Velardena today communicated to the local military commandor saying that for thrco days they had been subjected sub-jected to robbery and rough handling and in that thoy are in danger. Their request for military protection protec-tion was refused on tho ground that there were not sufficient troops in Torreon. Foreigners at Belardena ivero authorized to arm themselves for their own protection. For 15 days Torreon has beon blockadod by Bos-qulstas Bos-qulstas and during that time "residents "resid-ents have received no outside aid. Provisions aro running short. Military reinforcements arrived ovorland and yesterday and repaid rations wero sent out under escort on the lino of the National railway where railway bridges have been destroyed. |