OCR Text |
Show fiffori TROOPS Mexicans Shoot Across 'jj Border Into El Paso f, Guards' Camp fe El Paso, Texas, Aug. 7. Mexicans ' fired again last night on United States P troops on guard on the border. Tho J firing this time occurred almost op- P poslte the El Paso smelter, northwest 'Jj of EI Paso ' smelter, three or four P miles from the spot where the firing ; 1j occurred last week, when many shots . were exchanged between troops and l)J Mexicans The shots were fired from t the Mexican side of the river and iy. they appeared to be aimed directly at the American soldiers camping f near the smelter pumpnouse. The yz Americans returned the fire. The if soldiers believe the firing was done jj by rebel patrolmen with malicious In- K tent. if. The affair was officially reported Js today to Gen. E. Z. Steever, command- ia Ing the department of Texas. U oo ll |