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Show FOREIGNERS ARE FLOCKING TO U. S. i ii Trains Crowded With Refu- I gees Headed for American ' Border From Mexico. J INTENSE EXCITEMENT 1 Villa to Teach "Gringoes" 3 I Lesson Can Land 12,000 ' in El Paso in 48 Hours. ; EI Paso. Tex., April 23. Foreigners , are reported flocking to the railroads j in Mexico on their way to the United I States. There were 70 or more refu- i gees on thh morning's train from Chi- , i huahua and the special carrying Am- I erican Consul Ilanun of Duraugo and a 1 j large body of foreigners from that ' city is d-je here tonight. ! General Carranza's reply to Secre- j tary Bryan caused greater" excitement here than did the takins of Vera Cruz for it was interpreted to meyn j war between Mexico and the United ! i States. It is known that telegrams from 1 many parts of rebel territory poured in on Carranza, urging that factional , differences be subordinated to the jj 1 necessity of protecting the national ' ' honor. Practically every rebel lead- . er of El Paso and Juarez met at the j river last' night and signed a note ro ! 1 Carranza congratulating him on what ; ' they declared was his patriotic atti- , ude as expressed in his statement to II 1 Secretary Bryan. U General Francisco Villa, it is under- H i stood, was Influential in shaping Car- J "' ranza's reply. The conqueror, of Tor- j j reon. with 15,000 seasoned and vic: j tory-fluslipd veterans, according to re- ports from Chihuahua, declared that , j ho could land 12.000 men in El Paso in 48 hours and that it might be wise ( to teach the "gringoes" a lesson at i , the start 1 1 oo I f |