New Britain herald., 1916-03-16
New Army Units Form.

El Paso Tex, March 16.-New and powerful army units were rapidly forming today along the Mexican bor- der to fill the gaps left yesterday when i the first expeditiOnary army entered i Mexico from two points on the New Mexico line.
 In El Paso, Brig. Gen. Geo. Bell, l Jr., moving in on the heels of Brig. i Gen. J. J. Pershing, who led the first force into Mexico, was busy gather 1 ing a new organizat ton and attending i to the supply problem, and the com munications for more than 4,000 men who today were out on a virtual desert rapidly getting farther from their bases.
 The 23rd Infantry from Galveston was pitching it's tents at Fort Bliss here. At Columbus N. M., the 11th Cavalry, from Fort Oglethorpe, ar irving during the night, was ready to move in after the first army, sut it was not known here when the 1,th would go or what direction
 Columbus was today the immediate base for Brig. Gen. Pershing's army.
 Incidents of the spectacle yesterday as the American columns went over the international line reached here to- day by courier. For the most part
  operate with the request of the mili- ary censors that they should not re- veal anything of military importance.
 From a bill overlooking the six square miles where the army was still encamped at Il o'clock yesterday forenoon, the military organization appeared to civilian spectators like a vast confused swarm of men ana horses, gray cannon, wagons. mule 1 teams and ambulances But at I1:4o l a. m., when the word was given to l form for the pursuit of Villa, the ap- 1 parent confusion disappeared
 In a few minutes each organization l of cavalry, infantry and a1 1uilery, am- balances, signal corps and the COOKS wagons grouped and dOVo tailed into rapidly lengthening column. At the van the red and white guidons Of the Thirteenth Cavalry snapped in the breeze. This cavalry included the troopers who a week ago today, outnumbered five to one, drove Villa back into Mexico, ana took toll of lives from his men equal 10 one Villista for every two Americans on the firing line.
 Machine Guns On Nudes.
 IehJnd the Thirteenth marched the lk,Sc ard the Sixteenth Infantry. Next, at (, trot, a field battery swung into line and then dropped to a slow pace behind the "doughboy.S.' The ma- chine guns were packed in commer- cial looking bundles on mules. Sup ply trains and ambul3nccs in a long line drought up the req. Vast dust clouds swept up from tho line of march, at times obscurnzs the troops.
 The feeling among the me was ex- pressed by the remark of one dusty, ersriring trooper who, la he hurried pIst a group of civilian sightseers, exclaimed: 'We've got our chance at last" He grinned as he spoke. Women See Husbands or. A few women whose husbands were going to the front watched the de- !,arture. smiling while the..' husbands wGro still in sight, and t&en breaking into tears One officers wife, laugh ! ing, patted her husbands pistol into | place.
 1t was almost noon when the first 1 of the cavalrynren trotted across the 1 line.
 While the troops were going out, | three automo obile loads of Mexican | prisoners appeared. They were sus- l poets held in connection with Villas raid. Some of them were handaged l from wounds. There was TO demon- | stration of any sort among tre spec | tators over these prisoners. 1 Some wounded Mexicans were | picked up yesterday in the courtrp l adjacent to Columbus. They aDpar- | ently had been hiding for several days. | Some of them probably wero hit dur | ing fights with posses, which secured the Colum bus country for several days | after the raid.