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Show MEXICANSBRIVEN OUT OF EL PASO El Paso, Tex., Jan. 13. Resentment over the massacre In western Chihuahua Chihua-hua Monday by Mexican bandits of eighteen foreigners, mostly Americans, Ameri-cans, flared up in El Paso tonight, when scores of street fights with Mexicans broke out. From every quarter came reports of fighting, in which knives were used. American soldiers from Fort Bliss participated. Shortly before midnight the police reserves were called out and ordered to "keep the crowds moving." Ambulances Am-bulances raced through tho streets and physicians were called to various quarters. Early in the evening four soldiers "cleaned out" a Mexican saloon in their search for Villa adherents. Later a squad of fifty soldiers started through EI Paso street, one of the main thoroughfares, "looking for Mexicans." Police at the hotels sought out Mexicans Mex-icans and advised them to leave for their own protection. Meanwhile a number of former Villa officers and other Mexicans, rounded up during the day and tonight, to-night, were deported. Among them were Miguel Diaz' Lombardo, former foreign minister in tho Villa cabinet; General Manuel Banda, General Juan Prleto, two brothers of General Manuel Man-uel Medinavletia, Villa's former chief of stafi, and some others. Declares Martial Law. At 11 o'clock: martial law was de- clnred by General John J. Pershing, commanding at Fort Bliss. Four companies of the SIxtoenth infantry were ordered to take charge of the downtown district after it was apparent appar-ent the police were powerless to I check the crowds. Lines of troops four abreast swung through the streets, establishing sentries on the corners and in the middle of the squares. The crowds thinned out '' when orders were Issued that no one appear on the streets without a permit per-mit signed by the provost marflhal. The search by American soldiers of the Mexican quarter for armed Mexicans Mexi-cans continued after midnight. A squad of about fifty soldiers, aiding aid-ing the police, shortly before 10 o'clock started through one of the main thoroughfares, according to their own statement, "looking for , Mexicans." A little later they declared they had "cleaned up El Paso street," in tho business section. Earlier in the evening four soldiers disnersed patrons of a Mexican saloon. sa-loon. The rounding up and jailing of suspected Villa adherents continued contin-ued during the early part of the night. Street brawls between Mexicans and , Americans occurred frequently. nn |