The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-12
VILLA HAS FUNDS
Wen Said To Be FlOcking to
Him in DrOveS Now.
Bandits Headquarters 35 Miles
North of Parral.
De FACTOS ARE P0WERLESS
Outlaws Run at Large as They
Wish Everywhere.
Pershing Cannot Move without
Washington Orders.
IN II. H. sTANsBURY.

FL PaSOs lex July A--
villa has established headquarters
thirty we miles north of Parral
where he is concentrating supplies
and continent for an extensive cam
naien against the CarranZista govern
ment
This information was obtained in FL
Paso from Villa agents who openly
boast of their leaders plan. Inese
n are known to be well suppheu
with money and are in daily com
ication it'll individuals who nave
arms and ammunition to sell 10 any
a. no will buy.
An official order was received from
the treasury department in Washlhs-
ton lifting the embargo on all classes
-oaf z.-Dorts except war munitions AS
long as the blockade is not ce1nplete
5.the agents of both Carranza ana VIVA
axav they anticipate no trouble IN g tha
guns and ammunition across the
border.
.r,.o official rider from Washington
reads as follows: ..+o,,dad
IAN foodstuff and clothing lnteiluG t,o
for Mexico may pass ShlpIlen'S +,e
r-i-road car lots ma pass upon ~
reciprocal basis OF one car
for each car entered .i+,,a+ion
will not limit the shipments 10 80
- According to the railroad authoI
itscs tbere are thousands of cars OF
80 now south of the border Whlci
49, sarrauZa cannot real1ze on 80 IN
pected that these VIII De sn sp-e tt,is
arder 10 facilitate shipments from lhlS
The denial from Washington nc
~, Of General Trevino's forces haNe
renounced Carranza ana Jolnee ~. -
is not confirmed here. Inc lIllon &c
nartment officials is that the Carrah1a
- forces are flocking to the villa stahu-
ard faster than the bandit leaoer ca
reorganize them. These reports lnuI-
cate as wholly false TreVlnos ASST t
zion that he has sent an army 10 al
tack Villa.
Bandits Unhampercd.
~, bandits are roaming the country at
-avriII in southern and central Chlhua-
a..hua. on Sunday night Martin Lopez
attacked the suburbs of Chihuahua
CITY. looted a number of stores ana
retreated only short distance; II
mas been definitely established by
American army officers that Generai
= ,vI'revinorE made no effort to capture
Lopez. This bandit leader is a brother
of Pablo Lopez, the Villa colonel re-
~ Gently executed in chihuahua City Tor
having directed the Santa Ysabel
massacre.
Similar conditions of outlawry pre-
vail il is said. throughout the country
traversed by the Mexican Northwest
ern railroad from Chihuahua City tC
MADEIRA. and thence northward to the
positions recently vacated by General
Pershing. Carranza garrisons have
been sent into this country. but the
bandits are not being disturbed.
Much of this information has beer
~ transmitted by General Pershing from
esiColina Dublan to General Funston al
.es San Antonio. 1t is understood the
commander of the punitive expedition
has urged that he be given permits
sion to renew the bandit chase, ano
was told that any such orders mus
80 come from Washington.
Pcrshing's Position.
An accurate statement has been OBJ
tanned showing the present disposition
of General Pershings forces The ex
sf4treme southern base is at Elvall, WHERE
General Dodd commands a brigade
-ar consisting of the Fifth cavalry, Sixth
Fourth artillery.
-. Twelve miles north, at Angestura
near Galleana. Colonel Slocun is sta
toned with the Thirteenth cavalry
20 General Pershings main headquarter
is at Colina Dublan. The troops a
49, that point are the Seventh, Tenth ant
Eleventh regiments of cavalry, tn
Sixteenth and Twenty-fourth regi
-sments of infantry, and one battery o
1.-THE Fourth artillery At San Joaquin
thirty miles north OF Dublan, a garri
son has been established of tn
Seventeenth regiment of infantry AM
a company of engineers. The latte
force is engaged in road building