The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-08
VILLAS ABSOLUTE COMMAND OF
 HIS RAW RECRUITS SURPRISING
Observer At Torreon Finds Discipline, Bravery and Moderation Rebel sodiers-Litte Stor es Throw Sidelights R evolution

Fl Paso. April -sEmbroidering the salient facts of the successful constitutionalist campaign against Torreon are the multitude of incl dents hardly less interesting, said the Associated Press correspondent who accompanied General Villa and who reached Fl Paso Monday night.
 What struck one chiefly during the campaign was the mixture of fear and confidence which Villas name inspired in his followers. Gen eraI Villa says he will shoot anybody who cuts the telegraph wires by shooting from the train called out troop train who were improving their markmanship by shooting at the in sulators on telegraph poles. In- stantIy the careless firing ceased. No- body doubted that Villa meant what he 1lfd.
 < Send this telegram at once,' said a newspaper correspondent to mill itary operator in his field office un- der a. tree I can't, Senor, was the regretfuI response. General Villa has just notified us that no rnessage must go out until further orders from him and he will shoot us if we send this one, even though it is approved by his private secretary. to which there was obviously no answer
 FEARED POISON IN WATER
 ..The camp at verge1. just above KGomez Palacio, was alive with sin ister rumors A man started to lead his horse to drink from one of the numerous irrigation ditches in the vicinity. Don't drink that water; don't let your horse drink it, came a warning cry from a number of soldiers. That water comes from near Torreon and is poisoned by the Federals. Two men and two horses r7r- IF f.f hi i7a,r nd iad at once
 .sTo this camp returned the long line of wounded from the first days s fight at Gomez Palacio. Previously the campaign had been a sort of holi- day but these pftifu1 evidences, left no doubt that this was war. The wounded endured their sufferings with remarkable fortitude. SIn the little inprovised hospital near the railroad hospital train at yergel were probably 70 men lying on cots and not a single groan came from one of them.
 Never were raw soldiers more easily turned back from flight into the thick of death and conflict. Dur ing the first daylight artillery and the federal fire grew SO hot that things seemed to be going badly for the rebels M en began to leave the trenches and make their way to the rear Two cannon were attached to Iscaissons that were waiting to be placed in positions at q certain point and began also to move backwards, the drivers urging the mules on in plain. incipient panic
 NERD LAD STOPS PANIC
 "All at once al Mexican boy about IS years old r0dei on Horseback through the mesquite in the direction Of the rearward movement .Vuelva. 6go backl he yelled again and again, putting spurs to his horse. And at Ithe word from a mere boy cannon were stopped and turned, men faced the shot and she'll from the south once more and all marched cheerfully
 back to the field they were about to abandon.
 there were few evidences of vandaI- ism. There probably has never been a better natured army than that which Villa commands The morn ing of the entrance into Gomez Pa l lacio some soldiers rode up to well kept cottage on the ground of the soap factory The proprietor frorr, the front yard watched them anx- iousIy. One soldier drew in to the gal aery where a magnificent climbing rose vine was brilliant with red roses. He took one. waved it gaily to his Icompanions and all rode on, leaving the house owner astonished at this illustration of military moderation. 'The incident is typical. In bat tie, and too often out of 1t. the Mex 1 ican is ruthless. Under ordinary most polite and agreeable of men.
 COLORADO DOOMED. There is one branch of the federas