Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-19
MAY BE WAR; IF
 SO, II IS CRUDE
Bisbce Mans View of Juarez
 Affair, as Gathered on Ground = Fails to See Glory-Plenty of Brutality

Americans find it hard to conceiYl | as possible in association with wal methods, present or Hast. but the fact remains that the Mexlcans get away with i.." remarked J. l.. Harris, cir Calation manager of the Review. whc is just back from Fl Paso. wnere he was for two weeks at the bedside Ot | his daughter. Mrs. J. E. Anderson She has been critically Ill with ty phoid fever and Is yet not out ot danger. although friends of the famil, will be gled to know of improvement Mrs. Harris remains with her.
 Earliest history continued Mf Harris, in speaking of the retakinr os Juarez by the reyilutionists las Saturday morning. recount the strict guarding of all camps in war times while outpost and sentry duties ar, 1 matters of the closest discipline and watchfIlness in aE modern army reg ulstions. Yet, at Juarez, Villa thun dered in with a long train loaded witt i,5c0 men, horses. machine guns, am intuition and supply cars. disenr parked his entire outfit and marched practically to the Federal barracks in the heart of the town, on a brigh; moonlight night. without encounterins a sentinel or raising an alarm as to his presence. In fact. but for the ao cidental discharge Of gun by one of his own men. he would have sur. rounded the entire Federal forces with guns at their very heads and a cry of hands-up alone necessary.
 "The accidental discharge of one of his own guns brought Federal out of sound sleep. and when he looked mp he saw the invading army and gave the alarm. Now. docs it seen conceivable that in any army, any, where, such situation as that could come about An attacking force might, with great adroitness and pa. tience, slip an advance force past a few distant outposts and work well fin toward a garrison command under fay. ing circumstances-that we can under. stand-but to roll right into the gar. rison on a railroad train and then march boldly and without interrup. tion to. the very bed chambers of the commanding officers of the garrison is another thing.
 "No one in Fl Paso or Juarez knew Villa vas coming. His position before Chihuahua. however, had become un- tenable. He was without ammunition or supplies of any extent A train ordered back to Juarez, with Federal understanding, was seized by the reb- els. They took the station agent and operators in charge and after wiring Juarez that the train was returning per orders. got aboard and steamed along. The train entered the Juarez wards without inspection or question Those in charge at the depot were quickly taken in custody. Then Villa detrained his men and animals lei surely and proceeded up town. going to the-yery center of the latter before his presence became known.
 "The story of the fighting, if it may be termed such, is familiar. The Fed eral regulars, 150 in number, lost TO time in getting away. or trying to They made no fight The 450 volun- teers, either because they did not realize the extent of the force they confronted or from sheer wantoE lust of killing from aDbush. behind build ings to and from which tl,ey lodged, possibly in the hope of gaining final mn al In Eol,N was. Wherein any organization might gather satisfaction, much less eneour- acement, from such a victory is be- yond me. Yet the CarTanzaists seem to think il a regular Gettysburg affair.
 "El Paso is wondering what com ment the United States will nave to make, if any. on the report of its army officers to Washington as to the Villa executions. These commenced Saturday morning and continued all through Sunday. The last pretense of the revolGtionists claim to humanity of which they so long boasted in con trast with the methods of the Huerta methods. was cast to the winds, and the border was able to see illustration of what 1t has been freely reported has been going on all, along on both sides in the interior. The execution by Villa cannot be fairly termed sucil. They amounted to nothing more than wanton assassinations The firing squad custom of nations in extreme cases If treachery was not recognized. Neither was the former Mexican GUS tom cf lining the victims up along trench and shooting them into this with fire from a rank of men. a sui. fciently cold blooded method. Officers and men. on instructions from Vita were simply walked up to by some soldier, and none were averse to the joh. and shot down with six shooters The execationer followed DC form. He simply went up and killed his man in his tracks. sometimes firing half I dozen bu.leis into the writhing bo5y and then leaving 1t, unconceraeily lying where it fei!.
 Perhaps it is modern war. but foi one cannot see ft"