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Show oo AMERICANS IE BEING FIRED ON Columbus, N. M., April 25. The entire en-tire Parral district is a daily battlegrounds battle-grounds Major Brown's detachment of the Tenth cavalry, a squadron of the Thirteenth, commanded by Major Tompkins, who is again in the saddle, after his first wound at Parral, and a squadron of the Seventh cavalry are the Americans troops engaged. Opposing them are roving Mexican bands. What faction they represent is not known. This is the story brought to Columbus Colum-bus today by a man who has been for three weeks at tho extreme front, between Satevo and Parral. Ho said: "The Carranza officers insist that the Mexicans aro not Carranza soldiers, sol-diers, but many of the dead Mexicans have been in uniform, and tho uniform uni-form is the same as we see daily on men who say they are Carranzlstas. "It looks as if being a Carranza soldier is just a matter of tho moment's mo-ment's convenience. 'Snipers' blaze away at each truck train. "Bodies of men 200 or more strong are in the forces that have engaged our men. "An American corporal was shot In the Jaw aB he sat at a campflre one night. A sergeant who shot the Mexican Mex-ican found him clothed in the uniform uni-form of a Carranza non-commissioned officer. "Tho attack on General Pershing's truck train, when the general came Satevo to Namlqulpa, has never been definitely laid at the doors of Carranza Carran-za soldiers. Yet, when a detachment of American cavalry went into Mexican Mex-ican village 300 yards from the scone of the attack the next morning there were 300 Carranza soldiers there and there were five dead horses with sad- (. !H dies and full equipment. One hundred :H yards away from the scene of the at- MH tack there were five newly-mad 1 llH craves." I H |