The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-07-06
U. S. TROOPERS
TRAIL RAIDERS
/ New Force Enters Mexico
! After Bandits.
.FIGRTINS NOW EXPECTED

Outcome Of Latest Punitive ESpedi-
ton is Watched with Unusual In
terest--Natlonal euardsnen Are Be-
alnnina TO Pour Into Border Points.
Z. Paso, Texas, July S.-Another
hot trail" was followed into Mexico
by American forces when Captain Le-
row Eltinge. commanding troop X,
Eighth cavalry. crossed south Of Fort
Hancock, fifty miles east of FL Paso,
after the Mexican raiders who com
mitted depredations on the American
side OF the line
Captain Eltinge was stationed at
Fabens. midway between Fl Paso and
Fort Hancock and Immediately plunged
across the river with his command,
followed. It is said, by other troops oil
the same regiment. sent from Fort
Bliss.
The raiders. in addition TO driving
off ranch horses and generally fright
ening the civilian population of the
region. att. cked the abandoned Fort
hancock and the detachment of Unit
ed States troops at that point. Inc
troops being small in number were
unable to follow at once and by the
time they could reach the Rio Grande
the bandits had escaped. The lieu
tenant commanding did not consider
his force sufficiently large to risk bat
tie with the bandits and a possible
command Of Carranzistas reported in
the immediate vicinity, hence he
halted his forces at the international
boundary.
Captain Eltinge and his force were
ordered to the scene with Instructions
from General George Bell, command
ing the American patrol district, to
go in" II he thought he could punish
the bandits and recover the horses
stolen in Texas. The captain crossed
with his command Immediately ON
reaching the scene of the raid. Fight
ing with the Mexicans Is expected at
brigade headquarters, as the bandits,
former Villistas, are said to number
more than fifty bad men" and It IL
not considered unlikely that the Car
rama troops, known to be In the vicin-
ity will also attack.
The outcome of this latest punitive
expedition into Mexico was watched
with unusual interest. because the in
ternational situation remains so deli
cate that anything almost might dis
turb the balance of power and precipi-
tate a general engagement between
the Pershing forces in Mexico and the
Carranza forces camping close upon
his TANKS and to the south OF him.
The regulars are tired of inactivity
and the arriving militiamen are i'm
patient for active service more excit-
ing than keeping watch on a boundary
line for raiders and ammunition
Every railroad poured its militia
men into Ell Paso and other border
towns during the day New Jersey.
and Pennsylvania
forces arrived here during the day
for temporary hivouac az or near Fl
Paso, while militiamen from the west
and middlewest continued to pass
through here for points along the Dor
der west Of Fl Paso.
The Southern Pacific railroad east
Of here was busy detraining volun-
teer militiamen from Eagle Pass west
Of FL Paso, and the news came that
others were being sent out Of San An
.onio over other railroads to garrison
he country between Eagle Pass and |
It was estimated that |
10000 militia had detrained here
Sweetwater. Tex, reported a solid |
Of ammunition for the Amer
can border forces passing there, The
rain was heavily guarded, the advices
aid, and nobody was allowed to ap-
roach within one hundred feet of #
while It stood in the yards at that
,oint. except railroad men with passes
igned BY the SUPERINTENDENT