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Show VILLA TROOPS HAVE jl LEFT THE LEADER El Paso, Tex., Aug. 4. Reports re- WM coived here from Columbus, N. M., jjj-1 state that all Villa troops at Palomas, t Casas Grandes, and Ascenclon, in j I northwestern Chihuahua, have de- fjl I sorted. 1 I Business was resumed by native HI merchants In Chihuahua yesterday. j i according to official Villa advices WU late last night. fl Tho resumption, however, was said n to bo conducted under tho regulations laid down by General Francisco Villa at the meeting of merchants held l aaturaay at uninuanua on. : The owners and employes superintended superin-tended the operations of the stores, but "interventors" were placed in each store by General Vila to prevent his regulations 'being violated. j- The Chihuahua commercial situa- , tion extended to Juarez yesterday ' when instructions were received by v the customs department there to hold temporarily all importations until ' some definite agreement was reached ; In Chihuahua. This order was said to apply to Importations stored In the customs warehouse and aboard trains awaiting transportation to. the south. Representations have been made by IB the state department and British am- WM bassador. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, - against the confiscation by the Villa W government of tho Jabouera Cotton W Seed Products company at Gomez 1 Palaclo, Chihuahua, a $5,000,000 cor- I poratlon of which John Brlttingham, I an American, Is one of the principal J owners. It was understood the plant I was confiscated on refusal of a forced fl loan of ?100,000, in American curren- Jl cv. It is said the corporation already Ym had paid S250.000 in forced loans to m the Villa government. J Tho stores of foreigners remained 1 closed pending negotiations by the . "American consul, Marlon Letcher, and M other consuls of Chihuahua with Miu- Ister of Foreign Relations Miguel km Diaz Lombardo, of the Villa cabinet, fl |