Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-24
4 Will Join Villa and Resist
Invasion of Mexico by
Americans.
OFFICIAL DENIAL
COMES FROM GARCIA
Doctor of United States
Says 1t Is Impossible
to Catch Villa.

I'll PASO, March 23.--Gen. Luis
IL Herrera has revolted from Gen.
eral Carranza and has declared that
he will resist with all his power the
entry of American troops in Mexico.
but is still opposed to villa. according
to reports received here today from
sources believed reliable.
The news of Herrera's disaffection
was considered sufficiently authentic
for Gen. George Bell. jr., to telegraph
General Funston at San Antonio that
he believed it to be true.
General Bell added to his message.
however, the emphatic denial OF
Herreras reported revolt issued here
today by Mexican Consul Andreas
Garcia, which was supported by tele-
grams said to have been received
from General Herrera himself and
I! General Gutierrez, Carranzas field
Z chief.
General Herrera has been known as
a personal enemy of Villa His pres.
ent position is said to be that tho de
facto government has betrayed MeXi-
can interests in permitting the sol
diers Of the United States to enter
Mexican territory and that this be-
travail outweighed whatever offenscs
Villa has committed
Among arrivals here today from
Chihuahua City was DR.. ]. G. III.
Newly, an American physician, who
was formerly chief surgeon to Car
ranZa's army. Doctor Newly said that
he was no longer officially connected
with the army, but that he was trans
acting some business between the de
facto government and Washington
He insisted that tho reports of Her
? rera's detection must he untrue as he
knew Herrera well and believed him
absolutely loyal to General CarranZa
DIR. Newly said General Gutierrez
had four thousand men strung out
between Chihuahua and Santa Ana
with which he believed he could pre-
vent Villa breaking through to the
south. He said, however, that there
were many desertions from the Car
rama army on account OF the low
pay The governmon. soldiers. he
said. were paid two Mexican dollars
day, worth about five cents in
American money. The horses Of the
cavalry were also in bad shape, he
reported. as they had hardly any
=. corn and lived mainly on dried grass.
Never Catch villa
. According to the physician, the
American troops have an almost i'm
possible task to catch villa IL the
bandit chief reaches his haunts in the
Sierra Madre mountains around Guer-
rero
IT know that country WE'LL" he said.
"and with good reason. For thirty or
forty days | was hunted there by
three hundred to six hundred OroZco
soldiers who wanted to drive me out
of mine I had. I was alone but
they never had chance. I had a
good rifle with "A powerful telescope
sight and I used to sit up there in
those mountains watching my pur-
suers passing backward and forward.
There was never one that got within
eight hundred yards that | did not
wing. 1t took IS months for General
Miles to capture Geronimo and the
20 villa problem is Geronimo over again
only multiplied about one hundred
times"
Doctor Newly said that up to three
days ago the people OF chihuahua
City knew nothing of the crossing of
American troops in Mexico.