El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-30
VILLA MUST KEEP
OVER THE LINE
United States Troops Ready
to Drive Back His Men
From Invasion.

ed through American territory vii
have crossed the border to Aqua Priets
I before morning.
Conditions at Cananea are reported
improved. General Urbalejo, the Will
. commander, il is said. has promised
TO protect railroad and copper com
pany property. upon the condition that
( work be resumed at the earliest pos
( sible moment.
Watching Old s.Nigger Head"
/ 'sNigger Head a black butte family
I resembling the cranial outlines Of an
/ Ethiopian. which rises out. of the
] desert nine miles east Of here, claimed
I the attention Of all eyes today as mark
I ing the portal OF a mountain pass
/ through which Gen. Villa was expect
1 ed TO swing tonight or tomorrow
villa is reported 20 have IS field
Z pieces of unbrOken calibre and eff
cheney and 5000 men To oppose him,
I Gen P. Elias Gales. the Carranza COM
! mander. has approximately 300 troops
I here at present. ten pieces OF artillery
and between 80 and 80 machine guns
Gen Villas army today reached me
CallardOs ranch. some. IS miles south
east Of Aqua Prieta in Demanding vat
ley, just on the order side OF the Cnltl-
cahua mountains Thise placed him on
a fairly easy march TO the barbed wire
entangIements fronting Gsn- Calles's
elaborate system of defences.
Trenches Are Extended.
Although already possessed Of a
fairly labyrlnthian system Of protective
works. Gen. Gales had his men employ
their final waiting hours today adding
mazes of trenches and redoubts-
Not a blade Of grass grows in Aqua
Prieta and dust whirls sent dancing
about by winds that constantly sweep
the treeless stretch Of country, coated
a German-gray the brown faces and
blue oVeralls Of the soldiers as they
labored with picks ana shOvels under
the eyes of sWarthy women and children
who fringe every Mexican military en-
campment or battle field.
The city Of Douglas extends right
down to the border line. but is sparsely
built for perhaps half a mile north
from the boundary. Facing this open
space, the Carranza soldiers finished
today a trench line which completed
around Aqua Prieta a band Of defensive
works that extend roughly three
quarters of a mile north and south
and about a mile and a quarter east and
west
Many Refugees in Agua Prieta.
The town itself with its adobe build
ings, tents. go-downs, and lean-to bar
racks housing thousands Of refugees
within and overlooking this elipse OF
defensive works
The refugees, mostly women and chill
dren Of the poorest classes in Mexico,
" III D Drought over 10 LlE United
States il Villa attacks
Plans also have been made to bring
over the CarranZa wounded IL the gen
eral hospital comes under fire. as most
certainly II viii If Villas ammunition
for artillery. or even for rifles is good.
Trenches, which are the work OF Col
Max JOfre,' a Chilean engineer. are like
the latest ones in the European war
zone and obviously were suggested by
pictures from northern France. They
are serrated with indentations to pro-
tect each rifleman or machine gun
squad from rifle fire lengthwise OF the
trenches or from fragments Of bursting
shells
Trenches Are Modern.
Ridges about five feet from the TOP
Of the trenches provide resting places ]
during any lulls in the battle. while /
cutters at the bottom serve for drain /
age. On the ridge level between every /
or kink. in the trench line
are bomb proof dugouts for the protec-