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Show M0RETR00PSF0R GEN. PERSHING Two Regiments to be Sent Over the Border as Precautionary Pre-cautionary Measure. San Antonio, Tex., April 18. General Gen-eral Funston is Bending to General Pershing more than 2000 additional troops, and there iB reason to believe that even more will be placed at his disposal if the campaign against Villa Vil-la is continued. The troops have been ordered to Pershing's base at Columbus, Colum-bus, N. M., are now on duty along tho border. What troops will relieve them and where they will come from remained unannounced. It may be that1 the war department will have to authorize the sending of the few remaining troops in the United States Into this department, or It may be that the filling of the vacant points along the border1 may he left to the government of Texas, which may send the militia. The troops selected for General Pershing are the Sixth cavalry from the Brownsville district, the Seventeenth Seven-teenth Infantry from Eagle Pass, troop L of the Tenth cavalry from Apach,e, Ariz., and ono battalion of the TWenty-fourth Infantry, one company com-pany of which Is at El Paso, one at Marfa and another at Fabens. Marfa Is a town Just north of OJInaga, on the Mexican frontier, and Fabens Is on the Rio Grande only a few miles from EI Paso In addition to these troops, totaling 2300, General Persuing now has In his base guard at Columbus 800 men, but the necessity of maintaining at least that number there is recognized. General Pershing requested more troops sometime ago, but General Funston hesitated to order them be- i.u.uoc iuucu wilii LUU uuu&vi ui n can- enlng garrisoned and patrolled points along the border. He has authority to move such troops In his department depart-ment as he wishes, but the strength-cuing strength-cuing of any point from another department de-partment rests with Washlntgon. Staff officers here were convinced some days 'ago that unless Villa, was taken beforo he got beyond points within a short distance south of Sate-vo Sate-vo the chances of getting him were remote. That point has been reached and " Ilia remains at large or dead and to that situation is added an undisguised un-disguised hostility of various Carran-za Carran-za organizations that army men here declare makes doubly necessary the strengthening of General Pershing's force. Garcia Believes Villa Dead. El Paso, April IS. Explaining tho faith of Carranza officials here In tho report that Villa's body was found at San Francisco Borja Mexican Mexi-can Consul Garcia said today: "Our belief in Villa's death Is as strong as ever, and we expect official offi-cial confirmation any moment because be-cause we know the difficulties In transportation at Cusi. It must be remembered that tho body must be carried over a rough mountain trail of forty miles or so, and doubtless requires delicate handling. Everyone In the district around Cusi believes the report The telegrapher at San Antonio told us he would stake his life on Its being true " |