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Show General Francisco Villa Again Surrounded I s- and Capture is Considered Imminent I ! ADVANCE CAVALRY DETACHMENTS i Hill II l IkAII OF THF RAVIlrn I1U1 UIi inilL Ui I ML Miiullu ( Americans Already Are Far South of Satevo Governor of Chihuahua Reports Bandits Encircled by Constitutionalist Constitutional-ist Troops Twenty Apache Chiefs Start for Pershing's Persh-ing's Headquarters Eager to Trail Down Hated j Mexican Outlaw Man Hunters Sure of Success. ; Mexico City, April 6. General Gutierrez reported to the I war department today that the capture of Francisco Villa with- j in a very short time was certain. He said constitutionalist ; forces were again reported to have located Villa and surround- ; ed him. It is also reported that a combined force of constitu- l tionalist troops from the state of Jalisco, Aguas Calientes and Zacatecas is closing on General Bracamontes who, with a large force of Villa cavalry, has been located near Juchipila, in I southern Zacatecas. '. . , Washington, April 6. Secretary Lansing today flatly I denied that there was any ground whatever for the reports that the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico was being i contemplated. : San Anlonlo, Texas, April 6. The J most advanced cavalry detachments ) engaged in running down Villa -were ( beyond communication today, and at : Colonel Funston's headquarters it was believed they were already far ' ' south of Satevo, from whence trails J extend towards Parral. Only unoffi- v clal and conflicting reports as to ' Villa's whereabouts have been re- l ceived here, but General Funston and s ' his staff officers placo credence in J the report that he was In the vicinity I of Satevo Tuesday and traveling south ; or southeast. I From Satevo the American forces ' could send a courier to Chihuahua with reports for transmission by the ' V regular telegraph lines, but the local i authorities in Mexico have persisted in their refusal to accept the coded ' messages from officers of the puni- s l tive expedition. 'i '. Washington April G,. General Fun- ; ston today asked the war department ) ; to send the recruits, listed under the : r recent authorization of 20.000 addi- ', tional men to Brownsville, Texas, for ; distribution among the border patrol f' regiments. The recruits are being assembled and drilled at recruiting I stations at Jefferson Barracksj Mo., Columbus Barracks, Ohio, Fort Lo- I gan, Colorado, and Fort Alcatraz, i California. hey will not bo sent 9 across the border, (but will fill up S regiments of the border guard. In Genera Funston's request a bat- l tery of the Fourth Field Artillery, 'i which had been ordered from Browns- I . vllle to the Panama canal zone, will i ' remain on the border in view of Mexican conditions. , I Troops Are Unwelcome. I El Paso, TexaB, April 6. Intima-'. Intima-'. tions in Washington that the Carranza government might soon Indicate to the I I American government that the troops j pursuing the bandit Villa were futllly ' following a "cold trail" and that the ' ', de facto government would welcome ) the return of the TJnited States troops to their own country, occasioned no surprise today in El Paso. ;t There have been insistent reports ) here that the de facto government ' looked with no favoring eye on a fur- ' ther pursuit of Vijla because the pres- ence of American troops on Mexican ; soil was proving an embarassraent to the Carranzislas. These reports I were Inot confirmable because the : Mexican officials both here and in ? Juarez said the matter of such a dlplo- -, matlc nature must be considered only I by the government heads at Quere- "' . taro. ft Pursuit Will Be Relentless. II Army officers here say that while j the difficulties of the Villa hunt In- If crease daily and that It may bo weeks T before ho is captured, the pursuit will be relentlessly continued until the S( word comes from Washington to with' i uraw iue ltoopb. Twenty Apache Indian scouts pass- :l ed through here early today en route ', to the tront where they will try to '1 ) pick up Villa's trail. M ' Tho Apaches made an nnbroken m 1 1 ride of sixty miles -from Fort Apacho jm '' to Holbroolc, Arizona, and then did a M ; ! war dance before taking the train. m '' In army headquarters here the war M - department's authorization to General M Funston to add 108 motor trucks to M ;. the Columbus-Casas Grandes supply m i train is taken to mean that there la 4 4 no Immediate hope of obUiining tho fM '( use of the Mexico Northwestern rall-9 rall-9 ?1 way for Bhipment of American army 3H T supplies. Jm 1 It is aulrorltatlvely stated that the m request, for tho 108 trucks went for- 5 ward to the wnr department more ? lV than a week ago, but that compliance a i with It was withheld pending nego-M nego-M 1 1 tiatlons for the use of tho railroad. fl i No Word From Carranza. M Since the state department an- j9 ; nounced tliat General Carranza had S assented to the shipment of supplies flE; over tho Mexico Northwestern not R' one word has been received locally K that would indicate when its use K would begin. Mexican Consul Garcia JH) said today he had received no In- H structlons from tho de facto govern- ment. Army officials said that to date not one pound of supplies had been sent forward other than by way of Columbus and tho motor train. With tho addition of 108 new trucks about 330 trucks will be in use ou the Columbus-Casas Grandes traiL The total cost of the truck train? will be about $70,000, it is estimated. Private Shippers Send Supplies. Although the army is not using the railroad, private shippers aro doing so In Increasingly large degree. The final destination of some of the food supplies of the private shippers is the fieJd quartermaster at Casas Grandes. Today a freight train of twelve cars pulled out of Juarez for Casas Grandes and Pearson. It bore various lood supplies for the- soldiers, and hay and I oats for tho horses. Twenty Apache Scouts. Columbus, N. M., April C Clad in khaki and leather uniforms of American Ameri-can cavalry, twenty Apache Indians were preparing here today to start for the headquarters of General Pershing, where they will act as scouts and trailers in the combing of the mountains moun-tains of Guerrero for Villa. Thirty years ago, fourteen of the Indians in war paint and blankets, fought the American troops of which General Pershing was then a second lleuten- ant, in the Geronimo campaign, in the samo district. Captain O. P. M. Hazzard, who arrived with the scouts that they would leave for the front as soon as their ponies can bo unloaded. un-loaded. Hold Great War Dance. "Wo are going to bring Villa back," said M. Jese Valesquoz, interpreter for the party. 'Our men wero pledged to do so In a great war danco the first for years and they cannot go back on thcrfr word. These men aro man hunters, men who can follow fol-low a trial of broken twigs and disturbed dis-turbed dust as readily as you can read a printed page." Valesquez said that the warriors, some of whom are more than seventy years old, donned war paint and danced throughout the night before they left, as they did years ago, and then, without sleep, rode horseback tho sixty miles to the nearest railroad station. Dispatches From Carranza. Washington, April 6. Dispatches reporting continuing negotiations with General Carranza for use of the railways rail-ways wero received today "from Special Spe-cial Agent John L. Hogers at Quere-taro. Quere-taro. They indicated tho question was ! still unsettled but officials regarded the situation as favorable. The exact questions under negotiation were not I disclosed. ! Secretary Lansing declined to say " what progress had been made with General Carranza. The last official ' announcement was of submission by 1 Carranza of several modifications. 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