New Britain herald., 1916-04-05
SUCCESS OF EXPEDITION DEPENDS ON THE USE {
 MEXICAN RAILROAD Ll
Washington Awaits Answer From Cd to Newest Representations for Permi$
 to Transport Supplies
DELAY OFFERS VILLA CHANGE TO
 SLIP AWAY INTO MOUNTAIN

Mountain Infantry to Be
 Into Action-SoIdiers M
 Through Extremes In Te8
 -Mexicans Refuse to N|
 Information to AmeTicaA x
 planes Fly With Difficult sa
 At the Front in Mexico, C ing Generals Headquarters by Aeroplane and Motor. CM Columbus, N. M, April A first detachment of mouE fantry, a corps of specials men for such service as tTA mountain-studded country E rero, soon will be actively8 the cavalry in the search E bandit, Villa. The belief announced that such a coma prove invaluable in the va fronting the American trooz Guerrero district.
 Much has been written,' '1 general, about this being chase. It is just as much ar5 task. There are places in tI tains where the cavalry canI trate-rocks, cliffs, peaks, cd yons and forests, where at the chase might become a cd 8. man-to-man fight. The iTl Mexico is now being brouI physical condition for thid campaign.
 "Is that the reason" thd vas asked, why the infanti bases back of the front has b( ing about the ten and fftI hikes it has been ordered to surrounding mountains?
 "The infantry" replied t eral, may soon have a re demonstrate the uses of it's t
 The marching referred to along the line of communici the infantry advanced tow front, about two weeks be advance columns of the cav
 Mexican Air TreacherC
 An aeroplane this afterno into headquarters camp, stol minutes with despatches al flew southWard toward a I pass twenty miles away f1yin mesa, where the distant m were reflected upside down, water, by the afternon heat ' the ground.
 The machine rocked and over this boiling air.
 Earlier in the day from u mesa a troop of half frozen men came into camp for Fl food. They had been caug sudden norther. Yesterda noon in this mesa snow was thickly as to obscure the a mountains. Men and horse headquarters camp stood " backs to the driving snow, q heads covered with blankets horses with noses almost ground.
 This morning the men in t camp, all sleeping in the ope ened to find themselves cove a layer of hard snow. The, across an irrigation ditch to Pershing himself, white witt There was not a tent in can tents and abundant food are way, but thus far the troops moved ahead out of each camp without waiting for eitl or food.
 Villa Forces Scattered
 The troop which was caugl mortimer had spent many h search for a mountain toI where scouts reported that [ bandits had called for food house was less than fifteen mi the headouarters Of the Ar The information which the f tained bore out the opinion ar fiCers here that most Of tn forces have been scattered 4l small groups, some Of wh' seeking inaccessible places. sorship does not permit d from here of these positions, reports of patrols indicate tha many of Villas band hay pressed so closely that they h den their arms and assumed of farmers.
 This particular cavalry pa rode the mountains in after news of the two Villa who had called for food. Th' not wishing to be seen from 1t went out, took to the sides o tains where trees, gullies an valleys afforded cover from tn The men rode through steep along which there were neithi nor trails, their horses slippil stumbling over rocks and Before they reached the M house snow obliterated the t they had hoped to foIl two bandits to their hiding p At the house the cavalryme only a man about so year old and green blanket, and a yot man, with a small baby. I men who had called for food.
 CConunued On Fifteenth F.