Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-08-26 | Page 4 | Mexican Offers to Serve to Fight American Forces

Mexican Offers to Serve to Fight American Forces CANDELARIA, Texas, Aug. 26. (By .triii telephone to Pronidio, Texas) Tho American punitive expedition Into Mexico was deterred from continuing the pursuit of Mexican bandits who held tho American aviators for ransom, by the presence of Carranza troops six milef north of Coyame, Chihuahua, Saturday, according to a report mad?, bj Captain Leonard Matlaek of the Eighth cavalry here tonlcht to Colonelj George T Langhorne, commander of the Big Bend district. American scouting parties discovered discov-ered the proximity of a patrol of ten Mexican federals and later learned there were 150 more Carranza soldiersj further on along the only trail the. Americans could follow. To avoid a clash the American forces then began to return to the United States, accord-, ing to Captain Matlack's report, which! was submitted to Colonel Langhorne during an inspection trip along the river. Praise for Americans OJINAGA, Mexico, Auk. 2." Praise for the conduct of the American punitive puni-tive expedition Into Mexico and confidence confi-dence that the remaining scattered bandits in the OJInaga district, in which the American forces operated would be wiped out shortly, was expressed ex-pressed here today In a statement authorized au-thorized by General Antonio Prunedn. commander of Mexican federal forces in the Ojlnaga district i "The troops of the United States handled themselree admirably and gave no cause whatsoever for fric- i tion," said General Pruneda. "After i'ii' rn.-i n 1 1 1 o ,,-siiid by General Man ; uel M. Dieguez, commander of the 1 northern zone, urging co-operation with the Americans, whatever uneas- i iness your people may have felt was allayed and the whole affair wa3 handled without any unploa antness. "There are not more than seventy bandits left In my district. In a few days I expect a force of about 300 men from Chihuahua City and with these I shall go into the field personally and clean up the bandits who are still active. Three airplanes also are coming com-ing from Chihuahua to aid in the work " CANDELARIA. Texas, Aug. 23 The death of Jesus Renteria is believed believ-ed to be confirmed in the report made to Colonel Langhorne tonight by Captain Cap-tain Leonard Matlaek. Captain Mat-lack Mat-lack says he got the story from a woman wo-man in whose house Rentoria and his fellow bandits counted the ransom money obtained from the American j, Rentoria is said to have quarreled with the bandits about the division of the money In the house of a woman at San Antonio Viejo, opposite here. The bandits are said to have drawn guns and rode off fighting. I i utenanta W. H. Cooper and Frank Estill are given credit for the death of Rentoria with machine gun bullets from an airplane. oo