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Show EL PASO IS IN DANGER, There is a possibility of General Villa rushing his army of veterans to Juarez and, before the Amoricans can make a counter move, throwing his 12,000 men on El Paso, which is just across the Rio Grande. Before another day the startling news mav como that the rebels have begun an attack in force. The American troops are scattered along hundreds of miles of border and a quick move, such as Villa is reported to have under way, might find El Paso inadequately protected, and so weak in defensive forces as to allow the conquering Villa to enter. As an act calculated to overawe, or strike terror into, the Americans, the rebel leader might order tho torch applied to El Paso and then turn the city over to his bands of dare-devils to be looted before tho flames had begun the complete destruction de-struction of buslnoss blocks and homes. There are alarming consequences involving in the sudden decision of tho federals at Torreou to move back to Juarez. Carranza's dispatch of last night and the rumors from Chihuahua this morning are sufficient warnings to cause the United States military authorities au-thorities to exert themselves to the utmost to be prepared to mee't Villa and his army at the Rio Grande. |