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Show VILLA TROOPS RETIRE I All Quiet at Border and Americans Return. BURIAL PARTIES OUT Major General Cabell to Leave for San Antonio. UL PASO; Texas. June 17 After thrf-e days of Intense excitement and tichting in and near Jaurez, the border resumed Its routine today with no indication in-dication of an Immediate resumption of hostilities. All American troops were back on the American side last nigh. Villa and his column are somewhere some-where south of Samalayuca, Chihuahua and General Francisco Gonzales is again In full control of the Jaurez district I Burial parties were being sent out to 'he wheat fields and near the Jaur 1 l r.u t 1 r.n k this morning to complete the work of burying the dead from the battle. The forts along the river were manned by small cuards and the tension ten-sion which had held Jaurez for almost a week was broken and the little town seemed to be suffering from the reaction re-action which followed the events which reached their climax when American, troops crossed the border Sunday night and dispersed the attacking Villa rebels. reb-els. Major General de Rosey C. Cabell, commander of the southern depart -jUient. who arrived here yesterday morning to assume personal command 01 the situation was scheduled to bave late today for San Antonio He was in conference with Brig. Gen. James B. Erwin and his staff this morning, but no military development may be expected as a result of the punitive expedition Sunday night, it was announced. No Protest By Mexico WASHINGTON, June 17 State department de-partment officials said today no protest pro-test aualnst the sending of American troops into Mexico to disperse the Villi Vil-li -1 a s attacking Jaurez had been made on behalf of the Mexican government. General Candido Aguilar, confidential confiden-tial ambassador of President Carranza and J r R0J0, the Mexican charge, were invited to the department yesterday yester-day and assured that the American forces would remain in Mexico only long enough to attain their objecL This explanation, officials said, apparently appar-ently was satisfactory to the Mexican 1 epr. Bentativee. Telegrams reaching the state department de-partment todav from various sources Indicated a feeling of apprehension that the Yilllstas would take reprisals on Americans in thai pari of Mexico controlled by Villa. Officials of a mining company operating south of Chihuahua telegraphed the department that the railroad line south of Chihuahua Chihua-hua had been cut. and that their employes em-ployes were endeavoring to get out of Mexico b waj of Parral and Laredo. The National Association for the Protection Pro-tection of American Rights in Mexico sent this telegram to Henry P Fletcher, Fletch-er, ambassador to Mexico, who is now In Washington: "Members of this association well acquainted with Mexican affairs fear the developments of the last 21 hours 111 the vklnity of Jaurez may result in reprisals by Villa on unprotected Americans in the districts which Villa controls, especially Chihuahua. We respectfully beg to call your attention to this menace to American lives and property and urge that proper protection pro-tection be secured." General Cabell Determined EL PASO, Texas. June 17 "There will be no wholesale shootipg up of towns across the border from Mexico," General De Rosey C. Cabell, commander comman-der of tho southern department, an-mmiued an-mmiued at military headquarters. " There was no idea of aiding the Carranza soldiers in Jaurez in Gen. I Erwln's mind w hen he ordered Lhe expedition." ex-pedition." General Cabell continued. "General Erwin was not concerned In the outcome of the fighting in Mexico. He determined, to the best of his abil-I abil-I ity, that shots from the Villistas were being fired into El Paso. He sent his troops over and dispersed the Villis- Lis. "General Erwin handled the situation situa-tion well. He did the right thing and did it well ' As far as this situation is concerned, con-cerned, it Is a closed incident and I so reported it to the war department today. to-day. All troops recrossed from Mexico Mex-ico by 5:25 o'clock last night and there is no plan under consideration for further fur-ther military' operations in Mexico." Villa Secretary Executed EL PASO. Texas, June 17 Villa forces here today had a well grounded report that one of the eight Villa officers of-ficers captured in Jaurez during the battle and executed at Fort IBdalgo was Colonel Miguel Trillo, Villa's secretary. sec-retary. Trillo Is reported to be miss ing and was said to have been shot after af-ter Villa's correspondence was found in his possession. |