The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-08

Washington, May 7.--Oficial res
ports OF new border raid In which
three American soldiers were killed
two wounded and four taken prisons
ers, brought a new crisis IN the Mex
lean situation today.
General Funston in reporting the
attack by Mexican bandits on a small
detachment of American troops at
Glenn Springs, Texas. said the Mex-
cans were reported to have shouted
alternately: viva Villa" and Viva
Carranza," as they attacked the small
American garrison.
General Funston tonight forwarded
the following casualty list of ths
Glenn Springs fight:
THE DEAD
stephen j. O'clock, Fourteenth Csr-
airy, OF 391 East Thirty ninth street,
New York: William Cohen, Four
eighth street, New York; Lnwrencs
X. Rogers, Danville, Ky.
Creates CONSERVATION
This new border outrage caused
CONSERVATION in the State Departs
ment and exasperated army chiefs in
| Washington. Army offcers believed
! 1t highly probable that troops sent 70
the rescue of the small Glenn Springs
force will follow Colonel Slocum's ca
annie and cross into Mexico in puf-
! suit of the bandits.
The War Department gave out
| the following statement:
| "a telegram was received from
| Funston at the War Department.
"A p. NJ. confirming the mes 4:
| sage previously received from the
collector of customs at Eagle
Pass about the raid of Mexican
bandits at Glenn Springs In tho
Big Bend country in Texas. Mex
leans numbering about fifty at
tackled q small American detach.
mcnt at Glenn Springs at 1850
Friday night, killing three Amcri.
can soldiers and one boy and
wounding two soldiers. Four
soldiers and one civilian are re.
| ported missing. The town WIS
looted.
1T was reported that Boquilas
was raided Saturday morning at
10 O'Clock by presumably the
same band. Several civilians .sre
missing. A relief detachment OF
American soldiers reached Glenn
| Springs at 4 O'Clock saturday az
| ternoon and another left Mara
| thon for the same place on motor
| trucks lat 10 this morning."
State Department officials said Is
will be necessary to call the raid To
the attention OF the de facto govern.
| ment. General Scott Ia understood al>
ready to have communicated the facts
getting any possible explanation from
| him as secretary of war.
Demand Prompt Explanation.
| Army officials believe a prompt ex.
PLANTATION from Carranza Is demanded
in the circumstances. In recent COM
munications to the State Department
through his diplomatic representatives
here, Carranza has insisted the VII
lista bands have all been scattered.
If this is true. army officers say. the
raid must have been made by Carr
ranzistas. II the raiders were VII.
istas. officers insist, the Obregon army
that has been rnobilized in Chihuahua
and Durango during the peace con.
ference at Ell Paso and Juarsz shouId
be put at work exterminating border
| banditry
/ to the War Department tonight by
General Funston showed there wete
only nine men in the detachment at
| Glenn Springs, under command OF
Sergeant Smith. The camp at Glenn
Springs Is not far from San Jacinto
on the border. and south Of the town
of Alpine, Texas. The news of the
raid first was received from private
citizens of Marathon, Texas. after the
and two wounded American soldiers
and boy who had bean killed. This
wounded soldiers reported that two
other wounded men had been left on
the field. Sergeant Smith was one Of
the men wounded Although tho on
cial report of General Funston said
the Mexicans numbered about hftys
he reported that advices had been
received indicating that from zee No
500 Mexicans participated in the rai0,
The wounded soldiers informed Mara
thon citizens that the Mexicans cheer04
both Villa and Carranza a. they
charged across the boundary line.
A Carran1a Outbreak s4s
Anger was displayed by army o1H
GERS today in discussing this new Dor
der raid. They said that this cou14
not be charged by CarranSa o61cia3a
as a plot by villa to force intervene
ton. as there L. no evidence thus fo
that Villa had anything to do wttM3
the raid. Rather this new niAntteGs
ttion of -revolutsonaEx activity - -.
cepted a. indication that CakrannH IT,
unable TO maintain order aIone
Amsrican border ana unaAao . r. Z
vent Attacks on AUorioan toWnA4