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Show II WHEN SOLDIERS S They Were Fired on by Mexi- 3 cans in the City of ,u j Parral. 'J San Antonio, Texas, April 14. The M i -Americans on whom the Mexicans at '"ills! ', I,3rral flre(1 were unarmed, accord- 'M ing to an unconfirmed version of the tjPl j incident current in Chihuahua and gB i tranRn.itted to General Funston today. -y8 According to this story, 40 of the l3fl; troops entered Parral presumably to !$U ' l,urcnuSe supplies and were fired up- '2g i ui. Two were killed and the remain- JW j der retreated to the main body of .jM j troops encampea outside the city. Tan I The attacking force pursued them -3P 5 and were met bv fire from the Ampr- 'm I icans v,il wer? using a machine gun, SIM ' kil'ing forty Mexicans. 5g 1 Accoiding to this story the attack's attack-'s i ing Jrty comprised Carrauza soldiers ym and cnilians iffill Tlns veisIou of tne Parral incident B-fIj was seat from Chihuahua to General "Sili nc,! at E1 Paso- who forwarded it to 'll. CJcneral Funston. Full allowance was iSJl? L'i,e'11 u departmental officers to 34sl Consul Letcher's qualifying words Slj ' 'Jnnormed version that was current" pL m Cnihuahua, but there was manifest 'vJII cd a disposition to credit the report. Sl Man of the officers at hcadquar- h5Ij lars lmre legarded the story as moro SJI'i probable tLan some of the reports Ilj thai he come out of Mexico. It was tJI,? pciniPi: out that in previous cases aw t-oltllci s Lad entered towns for the LMpt purpose of buying supplies and had Mi3 been weened in a friendly manner m ly the residents, and that if they had M gon? inJo Parral for that purpose. It fS ,v r'biible that they went unarmed w Crncial Funston continued his ef- 1 fdr's lodaj to get an official report 3 from General Pershing of the occur- '3 j rerep. but late today no word from 3 :. lilin cr r.ny other officer In the punl- 'I Uo pjjieditlon had been received. 1 ' Tio it lieard from General Persh- Sm I in was that he was moving south m lrcm Satcvo and it is presumed that m H the commanding officer of the de- ) taclnnent that got into trouble at Par- m ' nl had Knt his report back in the I ' Lh . il manner, first to his colonel, M , i lu theu would transmit it to Gen-'J Gen-'J 1 cral Pei slung, who in turn would have l ; ic ocrcome the difficulties of com- II ! n-unication by courier or aeroplane II ! to a wireless station. Strict Lookout. , (Teneral Funston's orders to offi cers all along the line of communication communi-cation to guard against attack and to i dispatch Fcouts to ascertain move- i inents of any bedy of troops, are being be-ing carried out along the entire line, I it it understood. oo |