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Show ZAPATA MEN TO 1EAVEJAPITAL General Obregon Returning to Mexico City People Again Fear for Safety of Foreigners. Brownsville, Texas. March 29. United Uni-ted States troopers received a report that members of a party of twelve Mexicans at a bend lu the Rio Grande near here were sniping from the American Am-erican side. They forced this party to leave the river front but made no arrests because they found no weapons weap-ons in the party. General Precopio Ellzondo, second in command at Matamoros, who was wounded Saturday has been brought to Brownsville. He was shot twice in the. hips, but is expected to recover Washington March 29 Dispatches received in diplomatic quarters here today from diplomatists in Mexico City said it was understood that Gen-oral Gen-oral Obregon with Carranza forces was returning to the capital and that Zapata forces were about to evacuate. Later the British ambassador. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, visited Secretary Brvan to inquire what arrangements, if any, had been made for the protection protec-tion of foreigners if Zapata forces again evacuated the Mexican capital and the Carranza forces entered. Nothing of that kind was mentioned, mention-ed, however, in today's official advi ccs to the state department The latest official advices were that General Gen-eral Garza at the head of the government govern-ment in Mexico City, had given assurances assur-ances that he was making arrangements arrange-ments to bring food into the city and was maintaining good order. oc |