New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-27
Men. Women and Children
Start Riot, Hurting Stones
at Unarmed Squad.
ARMY MEN DOUBT
VILLAS ASSERTIONS
,rerican Cannon Trained Every
Night on Rebel Position
In Juarez.
,sv telegraph to The Tribune. !

f6v Telegraph 10 The Tribune
RI paso. Tex. April ga mob Of
..,.rsl hundred Mexican men. women
"A children started small riot this
..s-noon at OH and Stanton ats. by
.,ovinc stones at an unarmed squad
,,.Y a dozen American soldiers.
some Of the Mexicans were on top OF
,sOse houses. and as the soldiers passed
~ their way 70 the camp. several blocks
.r,v the Mexicans hurled stones at
a.rn. wh.ie p mob IN the street adopted
,-,usr tactics. Police reserves were
,,p.d out and two Mexicans. said TO
f. n. rirgleaders OF the mob, were
seksd Up.
PREPARATIONS are rapidly being made
FL Paso for a possible invasion Of
,.eel territory. despite Pancho Villas
,-o,estations Of friendship for the
americans. Nor are army officers TAX
W seriously the often repeated asser-
tins Of Villa that he is seeking no
msrel with the United states.
Cannon Trained on Juarez.
Every night American cannon are
trained on the rebel positions in Juarez,
and every night after the artillery is
raced. With flourish 10 attract atten-
,,on. II later is secretly moved TO diff
,s-snt positions. for The American off,
,.-s know that rebel officers IN Juarez
watch closely through field glasses the
-.rnuvres on the American side and
~, rebel spies abound on this side OF
he river. who quickly communicate to
villa ,ust what the American army
men are doing.
Two batteries and the regimental
hesdoua-ters 81 the 9th United states
FIELD Artillery arrived to-day from Fort
gley. Already There was one battery
Of the 9th ARTILLERY here and battery
n ths Cd Field Artillery. the latter get
INK here On Saturday. Sixteen Ameri-
sn cannon are ready tonight 10 pour
,hsir missiles of destruction into Juarez
.hould Villa make false move.
With the arrival Of General John j.
pershing and three regiments OF infan-
IN from the Presidio in San Francisco
SEPARATIONS for any eventuality at Ell
Psso may be considered complete, for
here already was a force OF cavalry
n-s sufficient for a campaign and all
rat was needed was a Strengthening
n the artillery and a sufficient force
n Infantry. Should tho call come to-
morrow for American troops an army
n more than six thousand could
move from here into Mexico, al
though Il is proba bic that less than
Eve thousand would he sent as the bor-
Der cities would have 10 he well pro-
tscted from Mexicans on this side. who
IN most places outnumber the Ameri-
cans
Think Americans. Afraid.
0utvardly FL Paso and Juarez both
ar. quiet. and apparently there is no
,rpectation Of trouble on either side.
On the American side the strengthening
/ u the garrison has increased the con-
.dsnoe OF the people. and the Mexicans
IN Juarez do not appear TO be greatly
Interested in the possibility Of an In
vssion. Many Of the Mexicans appear
% think the Americans fear 10 make
Increment against Villa.
Ammunition smuggling by Mexicans
q The American side has been resumed
a along the border. according TO re-
,o-tI received here tonight. A carload
4 Xauser rife cartridges which. It 10
aid had been smuggled across the
esrter was sent from Juarez 20 Chi
Sushua City to-day.
xsricsns are reported TO have raided
private powder magazine at Ysleta.
irelye miles east of here, this after
bon Deputy sheriffs are said TO have
I'd on them. Troop A. 18th Cavalry,
reported to have rushed 10 the scene
Two hundred American and foreign
'ssgees from Parral, Chihuahua,
esnez Polacio and Chihuahua City
vrved this afternoon. Among them
's. forty-slx employees Of the Al
'srsdo Mine and Milling Company, at
'srral, all OF them Americans, and Dr.
inonas Flanagan, who had been IN
rs'rsi for twenty-five years.
ne refugees say that when they
'"'s1 through Chihuahua that city
y" celebrating the capture OF Mon
1T and the recognition by the United
'1's o. Csrranza's government
rancho villa will wait IN vein for
'@n1nition shipments which he had
~f'1te from the east. A shipment OF
= sfloads IF rife ammunition was
Spec to-day on it's way from New
4>zns 70 II Paso The shipment con-
S' of three million cartridges, and
nehsve1 here that Villas declara-
u neutrality was 10 postpone q
=" until he could get that smrnuni-
N
80, ammunition WIS contlgned 10
- purchseing agent in III Psso,
T" shipment was stopped by order
shippers. who also wired for the
D1nks ~ return the bills OF isdins
The bet IL tho Cheapest"
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