The Pulaskian., 1916-06-30
23 AME ER|CANS ARE
 ORDERED RELEASED
WILL BE TAKEN TO JUAREz AND THERE DELIVERED WITH
 THEIR ARMS.
GEN. TREvINO ISSUES ORDER
Mexican Officials Were Pleased Over the Turn in Events-Declared This Will Lessen Tension
 Preparations Continue.

El Paso, Tex.-Gen. Jacinto Ire vino has ordered that the American prisoners interned Tn the penitentiary at Chihuahua City be taken to Juarez and there, with their arms and accou- trements, be released. This informa- quarters
 Mexican authorities asserted that Gen. George Bell, Jr., commanding the El Paso military district, had been no- titled of Gen. Trevino's order, and that the prisoners are expected to reach Juarez. Gen. Bell did not deny the report, but refused to discuss it.
 There are 23 American troopers held at Chihuahua City, excluding Lem Spullsbury, the Mormon scout
 Coincident with reports that Car ranzista forces have been concentrat- ed with a view to holding the rail roads of Chihuahua in the event of hostilities with the United States, American military authorities here were taking steps that would render them practically independent of rail- roads for the transportation of troops and supplies.
 A train of 27 armed motor trucks, with fuel tank cars and repair trucks. arrived and was assigned to the To- cal brigade, while at the office of the depot quartermaster it was announced that two additional trains are expect ed to arrive from eastern factories. Steps have been taken also looking toward the communicating of such trucks as are available in Fl Paso should conditions warrant.
 Reports to military authorities on the border indicate that Gen. Persh- ing is retaining at each of his chain of field bases number of empty trucks on the 12 trains in operation with the expeditionary forces are be- ing used to transport supplies from Columbus, huge quantities of sup plies and equipment having been con- centrated at Dublan, Fl Valle and other American bases. Many of the trucks in use here and in the field are equipped with a removal device by means of which they can be used as locomotives on railroads, and in the event of break in +he line can be detoured over the highways.
 Military authorities here pointed out that in the event of hostilities Gen. Trevino's preparations to hold the railroads would avail him little. as the efficacy of the motor truck in the Mexican territory has been dem- onstrated by Gen. Pershing's forces again and again
 Juarez Again Evacuated.
 For the second time within a week yuarez, the Mexican town across the Rio Grande, was practically evacuated by Carranzista troops, only Gen. Fran cisco Gonzales, commandant, and a small bodyguard remaining in the city. It was asserted that about |. 900 men. including the command of Gen. Jose Flores, left Juarez in the fast 24 hours for Villa Ahumada. from which place they are to be distrib- uted to the various Carranzista con- ceptration camps.
 Civilians, many of them ip new American clothes, indicating that they had crossed the border at Carranza's $ recent call, motnted guard at the commandancia. the customs house and the international bridges. Also doing sentry duty were numbers of peons fresh from the ranches, their Tapping sombreros and sandalled feet being in striking contrast to the dap per clothing of the comrades in arms.
 carranzistas Cause Worry.
 Andres Garcia, Mexican consul to Fl Paso, issued statement in which he explained that his reason for re- maining in Juarez during the crisis was to remove every possible chance of friction. He admitted also, howev- CT, that he felt safer in the Mexican town.
 Gen. Bell,'' he said, has offered to put guard about my house in El Paso, and I have full confidence in the American authorities, but since I was routed out of bed and insulted in my own house not long ago by a squad of police at l o'clock in the morning have felt that my presence in Fl Paso might start trouble.
 Every effort of mine is bent on re- moving causes of friction at this point with view to easing negotiations be-