New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-20

ranch Of Candelario Hernandez IN ms
flight from the border. his movement
are believed 10 have been known and
his destination determined. AT canoe
lario Hernandez he was less than for,
weight hours in advance OF Generai
Pershing's column, Mexlcans ana
Americans arriving at Columbus say
and the distance between the Fugitive
bandit leader and his American pur-
suers has been growing less hourly,
1t was learned tonight that the
chase now has passed beyond Casas
B Grandes and has entered the VIA
stretches Of foothills, canyons ana
heavily timbered lands IN the region
/ about Lake Babicora.
/ Just how the American forces have
/ been distributed is not indicated. IL IS
/ believed General Pershing's men are
executing an enveloping movement
which may prevent Villa from gong
/ either east or west of the course ne -
[ pursuing.
/ Carranzistas Not Aiding.
So far as can be learned, absolutely
no assistance is being given the amer
leans by CarranZa forces IN the ehase
of villa. There is nothing TO lnolcaIe
that any Carranza column - even IhoI-
( ing toward the point where VIVA -
supposed 10 be, and It Is oelng lIe'e,iy
predicted on the border that II iiIa
should succeed in breaking through tne
American Gordon, he would nave Illlle
difficulty in getting 10 the SOUTH "here
ne might join the Zapata forces
Evidences that Villa and ms men
| ere closely pressed and that he mad put
a few hundred yards lead on American
/ nursuit nv the small body Of American
/ coyairv under Major Frank Tompkns
{ Immediately following the Columbus
massacre are being found by people
travelling over the course pursued oy
/ Villa. Dead Mexicans in great number
are being found all over the desert
stretch from the border line for a as
lance of more than twenty miles, &C,
cording 10 information brought to III
Paso to-day. The desert is dotted with
the bodies Of Villas men who fell as
thew fed, and il plainly IS shown
along the trail where the Americans
pressed the bandits closest, for at m
tervals the bodies are said to be thlck,
indicating q deadly fire By the Amerl-
cans.
Food Supply Problem.
In the pursuit of Villa, one very I'M
portant feature is that Of the food sun
plies for the American forces. Amer
can troops in Mexico cannot forage, u
they wished to do so, without mourning
the wrath Of the Carranzs government,
it is pointed out, and the little food re-
naming in the interior will hardly be
sold TO Americans by the natives, who'
though desperately poor, are bIlndly
yindictiye.
To supplement, probably, the suppl
train service of auto trucks carrying
food from the border to General
Pershing's army, auto trucks by tram
loads are passing through to the west
To-day a special train Of seventeen tiat'
cars and "a sleeper carrying thirty-iour
auto trucks, thirty-four civilian chaut-
feurs and two enlisted chauffeurs went
through from Cleveland for some
point west of the border"
II was learned on the border to-day
that a large number of additional
American scouts have offered their ser
vices to the United States TO aid in
tracking Villa in the mountains, and
number are reported to have been en-
gagged.
The chase of Villa soon viii de-
velop into a trailing by small parties