New Britain herald., 1916-03-23
Detection of Herrera
 Two Thousand TrooI Villa Ranks Confirmes Greatest Apprehensix Felt That Carranza Cz Control the Situation
MACHINE GUNS GU.
 FOR FL PASO Rl

Extra Police Called Out and
 With Rifles in Anticipation o
 ing by 35,O0O Mexican Resld<z
 City-He1rera's Brother EotA
 Have Plotted Wholesale II
 and Looting on American Soi
 El Paso, Tex. March 23.-T advices reaching here today fjrmed reports that General Herrera had joined the Villista Chihuahua and left little rooS doubt that Mexican affairs had \ ed a point fraught with far ing and perhaps serious conseqi to this country.
 Not only was it accepted h5 definite that Herrera had deI cAS"AlloI bOIIl N1I dliEd cJllll I1lG States, but it was asserted witlil confidence that Torreon is also hands of the Valla forces, and all northern Mexico is seethine1 open rebellion against the del government.
 So grave was the situation red
 nere that the military auth| planned today drastic steps to Il all MeXicans in El Paso of any|
 they might have concealed in homes and enforce what woud virtually military law in 'littld
 huahua, the heart of El Paso's can section. Fl Paso Spends Anxious NigI All night long El Paso waitd the warning whistles, which tell that the expected outbrealI occurred. Three hundred sd with machine gun detachments N under arms for any emergencSI the police reserves, equipped rifles, were also held ready. and again rumors ran through town that shooting had begul Juarez, but each time they pz baseless. It is understood that ernment officials here have 10 Washington a recommendd couched in the strongest fI urging that steps be taken to da all MeXicans along the border. "A the right of forcible entry and sd if necessary. Up to the present. said, that the Washington authol opposed such a step on the grI that it would be misinterpreted bl MeXicans as discrimination a ad them and in violation of their r3 1t is now insisted by the local thorities that the time has passe any delicacy in handling the situa It is pointed out that no Americ. permitted to enter Mexico armed that there has been a far grd laXity on this side of the border was desirable.
 JuareZ an Explosive Point.
 The situation in Juarez renI mostly f subject of conjecture, such information as is obtairl bearing a decidedly sinister as| It Is known that a bitter feud el between the mayor, Manuel PrI and the military governor, Ged Gabriel Gavira. Prieto is a stad Carranza supporter, while Gavird devoted to the interests of Gen Obregon, Carranza S minister of but who at the same time is know1 be bitterly hostile to the first cd program, especially as it relates tol operation with Americans. Gav| troops are divided between Obrea istas and former Villistas. Whatl may happen in Juarez there isl here that any at, would be made on Fl Paso from other side of the river but ther the greatest apprehension that outbreak on the other. There about 35,0 MeXicans in this city If a total population of 71,OOO.
 and civil authorities h made vigorous efforts to flores trouble by arresting every Mex who was suspected of melting his ow countrymen against Americ That such a system, apparently oanized, has been carried on
 some time has been we'll Izno Numerous arrests have been mi among the Villista col, which is quite large.
 
 Herrera Brother Arrested.
 The police last night renewed il 'fforts and detectives were sent very section of the city who arres 5etween fifteen and twenty Mexic of being engaged in ai plotting. The most inn ant arrest was that of Melc Herrera, brother of General [ Ierrera. Herrera was arrested as rossed the international bridge aj