New Britain herald., 1916-03-27
Flying Columns of American HOrSemen to Stop Avenues of Escape Into
 Mountain Strongholds
INFANTRY WILL SCOUR THE COUNTRY
 IN EFFORT TO DRIVE VILLA

Mexican is Making Attempt to
 Businesses of Sierra Where G1
 Is Wild and Dcsolate--U. $.
 Use Railroads of Country as
 portation of Supplies Beconsd
 tremeIy Difficult.
 El Paso, Texas, March 2T.- columns of American cavalry M are seeking to entrap Francisco and his band by sealing up ~ trails and passes in the mounf& district south of Fl Valle. WitM outlets barred, squadrons of @N and attachments of infantry, U ing from the base near Casas G will comb the country to driv# bandit out in the open
 This is the plan military authA are following to capture tue brigand.
 Villa and his band are moving \ idly among the foothills of Tarahumares, hotly pursued by columns of American cavalry. George A. Dodd is directing the ment.
 This information confirms rj brought here by American tra| by the Casas Grandes district { day that Villa had escaped frol Carranza troops. Mexican q Garcia does not credit the repor| the Carranza forces furnished n| opposition to Villa and pern him to escape.
 Brigadier General Pershing e5 that it will take months to cd Villa. Returning American ref and cattlemen who know the cd are unanimous in their expressiol Villa never will be taken
 The American forces have bct lowed the privilege of using the| ican telegraph wires between M and Juarez, 1t was announced
 by Gen. Gavira, the Carranza mander at Juarez. All commll tions however are censored by| Bertani, the Carranza command Madeira.
 According to despatches fron front, Villa has broken through Carranza line and is fleeing s| ward with the American trol straining every nerve to ovel him before he reaches the mouI wastes in his ancient haunts iii Guerrero district.
 Animals Are Starving.
 The one hope of a speedy teil ation to the chase is that the of the bandits will be checked starvation and the exhaustion their ponies. It is known that is almost destitute of both suu and ammunition and the dead dying horses found along his give evidence of his desperate and need.
 Once safely in the midst Of Sierra Tarahumares the task of ming the bandit to his lair will become one of tremendous diffic This country is inhabited by the ahumare Indians one of the distinctive tribes in Mexico American who owns a ranch at TO in the heart of the district who has lived there forty years. this description of the Tarahunl today: These Indians" he have some of the finest and VI qualities of any of the Mexican a igines. If you treat them fairly will stand by you to last gasp. T loyalty to their friends is almost e to that of a dog. They are ho and very industrious.
 Making for Mountains
 The country in which they liv one of the widest on earth. peaks of the Sierras rise in fused tumble, with no roads only the vaguest of trails. Well know that country, I never vent far from the trail from my rancl the railroad without an Indian a
 The mountains are of volc origin and devoid of any vegetai Here and there, there are little eys in which the Tarahumarcs f nut they are hidden at the entrs o mighty canyons and man m wander in the wastes until he ,f exhaustion and thirst before 'ound one.
 "As an indication of the honest he Tarahumares, l might men hat no bullion train ever leaves Guerrero region without T lumare guard. The mining men rust no others. They rely on lonor of the Tarahumares and | ait has never been betrayed.
 But there is another side to tl indians. To the man who injure, ,etrays them, they are relentless f They will fight like fiends, and he most extraordinary powers of .urance and, when their passions reused are devilish in their crut
 Ut is among these people, am whom his early days as bal were passed, that Villa hopes to { efuge He is said to have m friends among them because at utset Of his career he enacted