New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-02
WARN PERSHING
AGAINST VILLA
Ready" He Says, When
Told Bandit Chief
Will Attack
10000 BANDITS
ARE WELL ARMED
TreVinO Tries to Gather
CarranZistaS to De
fend Juarez
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RI Paso, Tex, Dec. 1.-Exulting over
his success in the Chihuahua City bat
tie. his store OF ammunition repen-
ished with captured Carranza NUM-
tions. and his men eager TO fight the
Americans. Francisco Villa has ordered
an attack on Pershine's army in West
crn Chihuahua. Warning that Villa is
20 attack him was sent to General
Pershing to-day and his reply was that
he was ready.
Villa, according 10 information
through Mexican sources friendly to
him. hopes 20 dominate all Chihuahua
His complete defeat Of the large army
of General Trevino at chihuahua City
and his knowledge that Carranza sol
diers cannot now be induced to meet
his army, leads Villa to think, the re-
port says, that only the American sol
diers in the Colonia Dublan country
stand between him and the restoration
TO power to which he nspires.
Villa Has $1,000 Soldiers
According to the best, but still very
indirect, information Villa has now
more than twelve thousand men under
arms. He could not send more tina,
SIX thousand against the Pershing
army Dut with the cunning he so often
uses effectively, the bandit leader is he
leVed 10 be planning his movements so
ha A
be tuned TO follow immediately the ex.
pected order for the American forces TO
retire from Mexico.
NlIa thinks. 1t is said, such an order
already has been given, and by attack
ing while the Americans are retiring
ne counts upon receiving credit in the
minds OF MeXicans for driving the
Americans out.
Complete generalization has seized
the Carranza forces in the state Of
Ohlnuahua. Three troop trains arriving
at Jtarez since midnight Thursday
brought nearly two thousand panic-
stricken Mexican soldiers who wers
Meelng from supposed pursuit bv vii
listas.
Efforts were made to-day by General
! IaAcIsco Gonzales to gather up the
fragments of General Trevino's do
Ieated forces and assemble them at
Juarez. Carranza border officials gave
IT out to-day that the concentration of
troops at Juarez is for the purpose Of
defending the town against an attack
by villa, which they say is threatened
hourly.
As hundreds Of the Carranza sol
diers came without arms or ammuni-
ton, the belief of American army men
ana border residents is that the Car
ranzlstas are gathering near the Dor
der Tor a quick jump to the American
side IN case Villa moves on Juarez.
Beating Supersedes Shooting
In Chihuahua City Villa has stopped
shooting foreigners. Instead he has
issued orders that foreigners, espe-
cially Chinese, are TO be deprived of
everything of value and then beaten
TO death. This report was brought to
the border to-day by a dozen Chinese
refugees, who succeeded in escaping
from Chihuahua, making their way on
foot TO Sauz. where they hid them
selves on a CarranZa troop train and
got to the border.
The Chinese say Villa ordered his
men 10 save their ammunition for the
Americans and TO use the butts of
their guns on the Chinese, but TO be
sure the work was effective.
More than 200 Chinese have been
killed by Villa soldiers in Chihuahua
since the capture of the city, according
to Chinese arriving to-day. They knew
nothing of the Americans who failed
to get out of Chihuahua, but heard
that Villa on Tuesday had issued or
ders for all foreigners to come out of
hiding, promising to spare the lives of
those who reported TO him.
Reports that Villstas had burned
most of Chihuahua City, including the
palatial home of General Louis Ter
razas, who is in FL Paso, were denied
to-day by Mexican refugees. The ref
ugees said a few scattering fires had
been seen in the city, but that no gen
eral confagration had been started up
TO the time they left there, last Wednes-
day.
Cannon Moved Toward Juarez
villa was gathering up the cannon
he captured on Santa Rosa Hill when