Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-04
Headed Toward Parral With
Only Few Trusted Men
With Him.
ON "PANCHO'S ROAD"
Cavalry Will Have to Travel
Rapidly to Overtake
Bandit.

III PASC. April 3.-Francisco villa.
~ unwounded and accompanied by
only eight men. was at Salevo, fifty
miles south of Chihuahua City, two
days ago, according to information re-
ceived here today from Mexicans
sources, which usually have been
proven reliable in the past
II this Information is correct it
bears out previous reports that the
bandit chief Is headed toward Parral
and is leading his American pursuers
by at least sixty miles The nearest
point to Salevo which the American
troops are known to have reached is
San Antonio sixty miles to the north
west.
The route said to have been taken
by villa is one with which he is thor
oughly familiar and which indeed is
known among the poems as "Pancho's s
road" From Guerrero it leads across
the continental divide through the
l'achiniba pass into broad valley
which runs east TO San Andres, villa s
old headquarters, thence south tn
massacre of rs American mining men.
and then southeast through Salevo to
| I'arral.
Separates From Army
The man who brought the story OF
| Villas arrival at SaleVo here gave a
circums,antial account of the bandit $
maneuvcrs and plan of campaign.
While his story is impossib BILE of verifi-
/ cation, his own crediblity is vouched
! for by reputable Americans. business
men here. who have employed him
for several years.
villa" he said. has never taken
part in any lighting with either
American or Carran2a troops He
! left the main body of his troops in the
/ Guerrero district with orders to op-
pose as far as they could the Ameri-
can advance. At the same time the
poems were instructed to give infor-
nation freely to American officers,
always provided that the information
was false. The story of villa being
wounded was carefully concocted for
the express purpose of misleading
General Pershing and Colonel Dodd
| into the belief that the bandit was in
! hiding in the mountains and thereby
| inducing them to split their forces
into small searching parties who
would waste their time in the wild
Sierras while Villa was making his
way safely southwar."
Misleading Information.
This part of the story IS gwen color
| Dy the dbUllSSlOn OF General BefSnlnG
today that his intelligence department
| has been given much misleading in
| formation and that 1t was becoming
more difficult to secure reliable
| guards.
Continuing his story. the man said.
The American officers were foiled
at first. but they have a fair knowi-
edge of the real situation now and
the advance column is driving south
east with all the speed they can COM
mand. Their only chance of catch
ing up with villa is that they have a
good road and should not he handi-
capped by the big problem of forage
and water. The trail from San An.
tonic to Satevo leads through a broad
valley where there is generally plenty
of water at this time of the year anC
which is fairly fertile and Well cult
waited. OF course the peon farmer.
will try to conceal their grain, bu
American gold and silver will be {
temptation many of them will be un
able to resist.
eff they can catch up with Villa be
fore he gets into the Torreon distric
they ought to be able to kill or cap
ture him, but II he is able to jolt
'forces with Canuto Reyes they viii
have q difficult task ahead of them.