The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
BAKER TO FUNSTON



ly believed here that should it be
deemed necessary to dispatch a sec
ond expeditiionary column, some of
the 1000 men on station here and
troops encamped along the upper end
of the line of communication will be
called upon. Townspeople in Column
bus and other towns along the border
were aroused by the reports and mani
Tested a greater unrest than at any
time since the raid here two months
ago tomorrow.
Ban on Agitators.
Unofficial reports from the expedi-
tionary command indicated that de-
tachments of cavalry are securing the
district for agitators recently said to
have been attempting to incfte the
Mexican populaee to violence against
the Americans.
At military headquarters, it was
said, Maj. Robert L. Howze's cavalry
men are still pursuing the remnant of
the largest band in western Chihua-
hua operating under Villas standard.
Americans Killed 20 to 1.
| Field Headquarters, May By
motor truck to Columbus, N. M, May
s-The punitive expedition under
Brig. Gen. J. ]. Pershing has account
| ed to date for about 125 Villa bandits
! slain and two or three hundred
wounded. Meanwhile the Americans
!
slain, for evry American life lost. In
wounded the bandits have suffered
! nearly thirty casualties for every
American hit by a bullet.
! While the expeditionary forces have
not lost one officer, the Me-icans have
| had a half dozen of their leaders
/ killed. The significance of this show
ing was that it was made against some
/ of the most desperate fighters in Mex
leo. More important than the number
of bandits killed has been their COM
/ plete loss of morale. Nowhere will
they stand any longer to fight the
! Americans. A few shots from advant-
ageous grounds and they run, aban-
doning good positions before the
Americans are on equal terms.
Bandits Afraid of Battle.
Men here today from the Temochic
fight, the last the Americans have had
up to this date, said that in order
to get the Candlario Cervantes bandits
to fight at all, it was necessary for
Col George A. Dodd, the American
commander to lead his men into DO
sition where the bandits ought to have
had the best of the strategic ground
The bandits we're not outnumbered
and their horses were fresher than
those of their pursuers- With all the
advantage of position, Cervantes men
= quit as soon as night fell Knowing
pursuit in the darkness was not DOS
1 sibIe Colonel Dodd held his men in
comparatively disa advantageous ground
until morning, hoping that Cervantes
would remain. Daylight, however
showed nothing in the Mexican posi-
II ton except few hastily made graves
Funston Asked for More Men.
San Antonio May S.-Army officers
here are hopeful that the Glenn
Springs affair will serve to arouse the
war department to the pressing need
of additional troops for border patro
duty. General Funston asked fol-
more troops at the time he was forced
/ to take 1900 men from the border tc
strengthen General Pershing's army il
Mexico.
The nine soldiers attacked at Glenr
Springs belonged to a regiment, the
j tempting to patrol stretch of nearly
400 miles of the widest country along
I the entire Mexican border.
Urge Militia to Guard Border
Ell Paso, May 8--Telegrams anG
letters from all along the Texas Dor
der were being forwarded today Il
Governor Ferguson urging that he ust
| the state militia for border protection
1 More Rangers for Border.
, Austin, May S.-The state ranges
t force is to be increased by fifty ad
l ditional men at once, and a call MAJ
z be issued for 100 additional ranger
e for service on the border, according t,
: an official statement issued today b,
i Governor Ferguson.
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