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Show Fliers May Have Followed River Into Old Mexico EL PASO, Aug. 18 Aviators Peterson Peter-son and Davis are a part of the personnel per-sonnel of the Fort Bliss aviation corps but were on detached dutv with the Big Bend district military headquar-i ters at Marfa, Texas, at the time thev disappeared. They left Marfa last Sunday morning for the usual patrol of the border, planning to follow the north bank of the Rj0 Grande to the end of the district. It is believed by aviation officers here they confused the Concbos river ' which flows into the Rio Grande near! Presidio. Texas, with the Rio Grande and followed the cburse of this river! nto the mtenor of Mexico Another I - ijcir uv if iow a via- tors is that they were forced to land either on the American or Mex.cnn side of the border ,n the wild count of the Big Bend district and were made prisoners by the Mexican ban the border at frequent Intervals in K"? ?f cattle and other proper " fl carry off fo M5co. When it became known at Fort Bliss that the aviator:, were reported held b Mexican bandits there was much discussion among army officers of the PfMiblMf of American troops cro! trig the border in search of the ban-d.ts ban-d.ts who were holding the "viators prisoners This was discredited dS higher officers for two reasons The pr.napal one advanced was that the American aviators would be killed if DaMlts. The other reason was that orders for expeditions to cross the bo? der in the Big Bend district abrtlea only to the pursuit of bandits whS June stolen property on the American1 side and then only to follow a 'ho" oo . |