Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-28
40,000 MEXICAN TROOPS CIRCLE
 PERSH|NG
Will Make Big Stand Near Chihuahua. Have Field Guns Mounted 20 Miles From Expedition
(By Review Leased Wire.

FL PASO, June 27.-Mexican re- ports tonight indicate that General Jacinto Trevino, commanding the Car Iancista army corps of the north, has practically completed the disposition of his troops in preparation for pos sible hostilities with the United States. The command, the strength of which is variabiy estimated from S5,000 to 10000 men, has been dis tributed along the two railways of Chihuahua, the Mexican Central and .he Mexican Northwestern and in the Santa Maria River valley in such a way as to menace the American line Jf communication and present an obstacle to a possible American drive toward Chihuahua City.
 Chihuahua City Sacred.
 For more than week troops have been concentrated in strategic points north of Chihuahua City along the Mexican Central, running directly south from Juarez. Preparations to oppose any American attempt to use the Mexican Northwestern road. which extends in a sweeping semi circle, the arc of which bends to the west, from JuareZ, through Casas Grandes, Madeira and Santa Ysabel, to Chihuahua City, also have been made by the stationing of large forces at Bustillos and Guzman. At both of these places several thousand men are said to be encamped, the palpable object at Guzman, about 90 miles hWaSf of hnra hninp tn hlnrlr arRt- effort to use the road to transport supplies from the border to General Pershing's column, and that at Bus tillOs, 70 miles west of Chihuahua City. to prevent General Pershing despatching troops by rail to take the state capital.
 Thousands Near Pershing.
 Several thousand soldiers. including some artillery, are said to be bivouack- ed in the hills above Santa Clara Canyon. about twenty miles east of Namiquipa. their guns commanding the canyon through which passes the wagon road south toward Chihuahua from General Pershine's chain oi bases.
 Aeroplanes, Trucks Active.
 To offset these maneuvers. General Pershing has gathered at Colonia Dublan more than two hundred motor trucks, with which. in an emergency. he can transport infantry across munication has been shortened. the southern base being at Fl Valle. about 200 miles south of the Border Mex jeans travelling over the motor truck trail in the zone occupied by the Americans are subjected to the most rigid examinations and the Ameri- can fleet of aei3planes sent south from the base at Columbus. into Mex leo are making daily reconnaissance flights.
 The Mexican de facto government still has hopes. however. that the prob lem will be solved by the withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico, according to a telegram received at the local consulate from Mexico City. It pointed out that "a very favorable had been produced by General Trevino's report of the with drawal of the punitive forces from Bachinova and San Geronimo ana added the conclusion was generally drawn from General Trevinos report That the Americans were under or 'lers to return to the border for patrol duty in their own territory
 10000 Indians to Fi7ht U. S.
 Other dispatches to Consul Garcia rom the cpaital said that if the Americans attempt to invade Mexico, hey will find opposing them i5.000 full blooded Indians, direct descend ants of the forces that Four centuries qgo resisted the march of COrtez
 indignation Is felt in official cir cles over a report from Mazatlan that an American war vessel entered the
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