New Britain herald., 1915-10-30
MEXICANS ON EVE
 0F B|G BATTLE Expected Villa and Carranza Forces Will Clash Tomorrow AT AGUA PRIETA, SONORA
G.OOO American Soldiers Mobilized at Douglas, Ariz., Have Orders to Prevent Shooting Into the United 

l Douglas, Ariz., Oct. 30.-Nigger | head, a black butte faintly resem- 1 ling the cranial outlines of a negro, | which rises out of the desert nine miles east of here, claimed the atten- l ton of all eyes today as marking the l postal of a mountain pass through 1 which Gen. Villa was expected to swing tonight or tomorrow about s. 900 men to attack Or besiege the Carranza garrison at Agua Prieta, opposite here.
 Besides his 5000 soldiers, Villa was | authoritatively reported to have 2S calibre and efficiency. To oppose him General P. Elias Gales, the Carranza commander, has approximately B. 700 troops, ten pieces of artillery and between thirty and fifty machine guns. Reinforcements are coming over American railroads via Eagle Pass.
 Pass Near American Troops. As they advance westward toward Agua Prieta the Villa forces must pass near an encampment of Ameri- can troops stationed hardly @ milo north of the border, where Brigadier General Thomas +. Davis, who as- stunned command yesterday, has about 5000 soldiers, with sixteen 3-inch field guns. The United States troops have orders to prevent from shooting into the United States. General Villas army today reached the Callardos ranch, some IS miles southeast of Agua Prieta, in Ber- nardino valley, just on the other side of Chirichua mountains. This placed him within a fairly easy march of the barbed wire entanglements front ing Gen. Gales elaborate system of defenses.
 To Attack Tomorrow
 Gen. Villa is expected tomorrow, and sightseers are crowding into Douglas.
 Although already possessed of fairly effective system of protective works, Gen. Gales had his men em- ploy their final waiting hours today adding to mazes of trenches and re- doubts:
 Not blade of grass grows in Agua Prieta and dust whirls sent dancing about by winds that constantly sweep the country, coated gray the brown faces and blue overalls of the sol- diers as they labored with picks and shovels under the eyes of woman and children, who fringe every Mexican military encampm ent or battlefield.
 Douglas on Border Line. The city of Douglass extends right down to the border line, but is sparse ly built for perhaps half a mile north from the boundary. Facing this open space the Carranza soldiers finished today trench line which completed around Agua Prieta a band of defen- sive works that extend roughly three quarters of a mile north and south and about a mile and a quarter east and west.
 The town itself with its adobe buildings, tents, go-downs and lean-to barracks housing thousand of refu- gees driven in by the Villa advance, lies within and overlooking this eclipse of defensive works. Bring Refugees to U. S. The refugees, mostly women and children of the poorest classes in l Mexico, will be brought over to the United States when Villa attacks Plans also have been made to bring
 
 eral hospital comes under fire. Three lines of trenches the work of Col. Max loire, Chilean engineer. are like those in the European war zone.
 Barbed Wire Entanglements.
 The three line of trenched are fronted first by lines of barbed wire entanglem ents, which, it is said can be charged with deadly current of electricity. Beyond this lie fields of mines.
 From all three lines of trenches zlg-zag communication trenches, fac ing the American side, run through the town to the trench in the rear of Agua Prieta. These principally are for bringing in the wounded or for sending out endorsements without exposing them to fire. These com munication trenches are dotted with dressing stations in dugouts, which are provided with barrels of water and first aid outfits.
 Post Office Now Hospital
 The general hospital still is located in an adobe building, which former ly was the post office. Here Dr. J. l. Hollingsworth, an American, and Dr. T. l.. Harrison of Toronto, Cana da, who just returned from Belgium, are in charge. Their patients today included thirty typhoid cases and a number of wounded men from former battles in Sonora.
 The new hospital is unfinished. In the meantime the post office shelters the sick and wounded and their fa- miles or those of the Mexican nurses, l
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