Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-24
First News Story from the American Soldiers Head quarters at Colonia Dublan Had from A. P. Reporter.
FORCED MARCHES ARE
 HAD EN ROUTE SOUTH
Uncle Sam's Men Prove Their Endurance Under the Most Trying Circumstances and Surprise the Mexicans.
leY Review Leased Wirel

FL PASO, 3 -si 23.-The fol- lowing dispatch from the AssOciat-
 ed Press correspondent al the
 front in Mexico is the first com
 pletc story Of the crossing of the
 border of the punitive expedition
 sent to avenge the Columbus mas
 sacre.
 HEADQUARTERS U. $. PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. NEAR COLONIA DUB IAN. CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, March I22 (by wagon train to Columbus, N. M.. March 23)-Reaching here by a forced march that demonstrated the endurance of the soldier and obviously amazed the MeXicans, several thou sand United States troops, cavalry, infantry and artillery. were scattered today between this point and the north ern boundary of the state of Guerrero. intent on the task of capturing or kill ing Francisco Villa in the shortest possible time and exterminating the bandit band with which he raided Co., lumbus. New Mexico. and slaughtered nine civilians on March 9.
 Troop movements and dispositions however, are shrouded in the strictest secrecy. by order of the War Depart ment. The entry into Mexico occurred lat 12:07 p. m March 18th. At that moment the American colors, with the standards of the Thirteenth Cavalry and two hundred men of which beat off Villa's raiders despite the efforts of the Mexican brigands. were carried over the boundary by the color guard. Colonel Herbert | Slocum. command ing the Thirteenth Cavalry, was the first commanding officer to cross. He was followed hy Major James A. Ryan, chief of staff to Gen. John J.Pershing. who commands the punitive expedition
 This was column number one. con- Sisting of infantry. artillery and caval- rv and burdened with heavy wagon trains. II moved rather slowly and "anped the first nisht at Palomas. a flthy village of adobe huts and "go- downs" seven miles below the border, south of Columbus.
 Column number two entered Mexico from Culberson's Ranch. fifty miles south of Hachita. N M. General Persh- ing. who had accompanied the first col umn mart Of the way to Palomas. re- turned to Columbus the same after noon. racing to Culberson's in an auto mobile and taking command of the second or flying column. He drove it ~ore than no miles over the desert of Chihuahua in twenty-two hours of act ual marching The official records show that spies dotted the route of the first column. but the men of the second had forged their way fifty miles into the country before a single native was seen: and 10 the patent surprise of the Mcxicans. reached here Friday night exactly 42 hours after crossing the border at 3:17 Thursday morning. Tn this column every man was mount ed and the numbering wagon trains were supplanted by army mules which made the entire distance under heavy packs with the loss of only three of their number.
 Battery B. of the Sixth Field Artil- | lery. commanded by Captain Edgar H. [ YuIe and Lieut.. Charles ?. George, forwed a unit of the flying column. 1 While the cavalry traversed trails through the Nal Pals" or Bad Coun- try. of the Sierra Madre mountains.
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