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Show Appeal Made for U. S. I Troops to Remain I During Extreme I Danger. I Juarez, Mexico, Nov. 29. Mexican i merchants who reached here Monday - night from San Buenaventura and i mm Namlquipa reported today that petl- ! tions was being circulated in the towns and settlements in the vicinity j of the American expeditionary force's ; headquarters and outposts, asking the United States government not to withdraw the American troops at this MM time. : mM Villa, they claim, has made a throat 'Mm against all who live in Namiquipa, :MM Guerrero, San Buensventura, Casas MMm Grandes, Colonia Dublan, Colonia '.MM Juarez and the: other towns in west- 'jH ern Chihuahua, saying he would kin all residents of these towns and burn ; M their homes because they had aided MM the Americans. j A report in circulation here that a. ImM bridge had been burned between San- ' M ta Sofia and Guzman, on the Mexico : Northwestern railway, but officials of M this railway said they had no confir- ; mation of the report as the military ' authorities were in charge of their only telegraph line. If a bridge has ! MM been burned on this road it will pre- : vent General Pershing from receiving M supplies for his column by rail. |