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Show Villistas Again Meet Sharp Defeat: Cavalry Makes Short Work of Band ; IL S. CAVALRY PUSHING RAPIDLY : SOUTH AFIER VILLA BANDITS ! Colonel Brown With Famous Trailers Soon Put Outlaws to Flight Cavalrymen Live Two Weeks on Beef and Corn, But Keep Up Stern Chase Band of Villistas Meet Carranza Force and Are Practically Annihilated Persistent Report That Villa Is Wounded j and Capture Imminent. ) Washington, April 7. Another engagement between Carranza troops and Villa bandits took place April 4 at Ciene-guillas. Ciene-guillas. Ten of the bandits were killed. This information was received at the war department today San Antonio, Texas, April 7. Francisco Villa was at Cieneguillas, ten miles south of Satevo, on April 4, according to General Luis Gutierrez, commanding the Carranza troops in Chihuahua. General Bell received this information from Chihuahua and transmitted it to General Funston today. American cavalry are pushing forward along the trails to and i beyond Satevo. Gutierrez reported that Carranza troops engaged fifty Villa men at Cieneguillas, killed ten and captured two. The prisoners said Villa had left there early in the morning with j 200 men, leaving the fifty as a rear guard. ' San Antonio, Texas, April 7. Car- , ranza troops were reported today by Consul Letcher to bo concentrating i in the vicinity of Chihuahua. The reason for such concentration was un- 1 explained, but officers at General Fun Eton's headquarters assumed that it was part of the do facto government's ' plan of co-operation In the pursuit of Villa who, according to a majority of reports. Is traveling south beyond J Chihuahua. .' The exact positions of the American i forces were still unknown at head- 'x quarters early today. A report from ! General Pershing had reached Co- l lumhus but its garbled condition made J k necessary to repeat it. General f Funston and his staff awaited it with some concern, since accurate and ? official Information from the field of operations has been lacking since the early part of the week. Colonel Brown's brief report, for-i for-i warded through the American consu late at Chihuahua, served to strength-i strength-i en the assumption of those at head- ' quarters that the American advanced '1 forces already had reached Satevo. 1 Colonel Brown reported from Cusi- ') hulrachlc, some fifty miles from Sa- i '., Advance Guards Near Satevo. :' El Paso, Texas, April 7. Advance ", guards of the American expedition ,J hunting the brigand Villa are operat- 1 ing today near Satevo and that Col- - onel Dodd's cavalry has again come In contact with tho Villistas Is ex- j pccted. , I' The region between Satevo and Par- ral where Villa Is reported to be heading head-ing is infested with numerous bands of Villa brigands. V May Give Americans Hard Battle. ) American refugees from the Benlto-Juarez Benlto-Juarez district say that If Villa should ; succeed in uniting these bands of c. mauraderB he would have an effective Torce of at least 1,000 men and would '. be In position to give the advance J : American troops a hard battle beforo ' reinforcements arrived. The last official information from j the front showed that American cav- ( airy had penetrated south of San An- t tonlo and wafi still moving southward r hard on the trail of the Villistas. It "I is believed that moro frequent reports i will now be obtained Trom Colonel '. Dodd. Inasmuch as It is possible for -, him to relay his messages by courier i to Chihuahua and thence by Mexican 1 telegraph linos to El Paso -for re- 1 transmission to General Funston at San Antonio. $ Another train left Juarez today Tor the Casas Grandes and Pearson dls- 3 tricts, carrying both passengers and iy The number of passengers was un- i usually largo and Included many i Americans. ,, 'S Officials of the Mexico Northwest- cm say that with the presence in the Casas Grandes district of American 1 troops and an attendant reeling of se- f curlty, practically all the persons who I came to the border after the Colum- t bus massacre are returning Supplies Being Sent. f The quartermaster's depot here con- i tinucs to send large quantities of sup- 1.1 piles to tho front by way of ColumbuW I Pablo Slancz, the "boy general f whoso bloodv exploits made him ono of tho most feared of the Villa officers and who was arrested by ihc local il polico last night, today was turned I over to the Texas Rangers. The lat- t ter took him out of town to an un- known destination, but it was suppos- & cd that he had been sent across the 1 border into Mexico. $ t . i All Quiet In Torreon. Torreon, Mexico, April 7. All is - , quiet in Torreon and the advance In '. value of the de facto government cur- 3 rency Is greatly aiding tho economic ,' situation. No news has been Jacard ; of the peace commission which went I to arrange for the surrender of Gen- m i. oral Canuto Reyes and several other , Vllllsta leaders under an amnesty grant. |