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Show I CONSUL LETCHER I REPORTS FIGHT H Persistent Rumor That Villa H Has Been Wounded Troops H Live Two Weeks on H Scanty Rations. m Wasnington, April 7. American H Consul L-etcher, at Chihuahua, in a H i; dispatch received at the war depart- j j ment today through Major-General 1 Punston, told of some of the results of H ( the olaslies between American troops Hl! and Villa forces at Aguas Calientes j l on April 1 and the fight between the H j bandits and Carranza troops near m i I Cieneguilla three, days later. H i I Letcher reported a persistent rum- H or in Chihuahua that Villa has been Ht ' wounded. He said the fight at Aguas H Calientes resulted in the killing of 30 H r or 40 bandits by troopers of the Tenth H H cavalry under Colonel Brown. Brown's fl fa troops were reported as living for two H I weeks on beef and corn with supplies H D almost exhausted. A mining company, H v Lotcher said, had relieved the short- H f age by sending a special train with H supplies and forage. SB Carranzlstas Capture Fifty Men. J At the fight of Cionoguilla the Car- ranza forces under General Cavazos captured two bandits of the fifty engaged. en-gaged. Letcher reported the Carranza troops wero co-operating with General Pershing and that General Gutierrez had Informed the American authorities authori-ties of the Carranza troop disposition about Chihuahua. A Tesume of a telegram dated April 6 from the American consul general at Monterey made public by th state department today said: Friendly Feeling For Americans. "Telegraphic and mall reports from Torreon and Durango Indicate a marked mark-ed Improvement alnce the arrival oi General Jacinto Trevino at Torreon and the establishment of his headquarters head-quarters there. Monterey is quiet and all Interior consulates report good, order or-der and friendly feeling toward Amer-icane." Amer-icane." The Mexican embassy announced re-1 celpt of a telegram forwarded by Consul Con-sul Garcia at El Paso from General Gutierrez saying that Villa bandits had been met and practically annihilated annihi-lated by the de facto government's force at Chihuahua. The report added that Villa himself was wounded and his capture was Imminent. No further furth-er details were given. The date of the fight mentioned was not reported. rr |