The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-04-13
TROOPS WILL NOT
CROSS DEAD line
IN MEXICO, RUh0R|
Baker and Lansing Beth Refuse
to Discuss Report That Villa
Pursuit May End at
Certain Point.
WANT ARMY TO WITHDRAW
Carranza Officials Inquire When
U. S. Forces VIII Retire
Formal Request Is Ex-
pected by Washington.
WANT ARMY TO WITHDRAW

1 1N&.NeN1eAaIG
Washington, d. c., April 1l.-Secre.
tary Lansing and Secretary Baker both
declined to comment today on border
reports that an agreement between
Washington and the Carranza govern
ment had fixed a "deadiine, beyond
which the American troops would moi
go in their pursuit Of the Villa bandits,
Secretary Baker declared in answer
to questions that such an agreement
would come under the pending pros
tocor and a subject not under the war.
departments Jurisdiction.
Tho proposed protocol of which little
is known, still is under discussion at
GENERAL Carranzafs provisional capital
at Queretaro. Special Agent Rodgers
left the provisional capital for Mexico
City last week. but expects to return
soon.
Mass Behind Pershina?
At both the state n war depart
ments 1T was said nothing was hnown
of reports of massing Of Carranza
troops on General P~ershhng's rear.
State department dispatches located
Villa heading toward Parral-
Secretary Baker plans to leave to-
night for a BRIEF visit to his home at
Cleveland. He intends to return
Wednesday.
State department dispatches today
indicate that officials OF h Mexican
de facto government are viewing with
some anxiety the continued presence oh
american troops IN Mexico. One us
patch authoritatively was described as
containing a hin that certain Mexican
officials believed the purpose of the
American punitive expedition had been
he ased mon the a~sa,lmntion that the
honaits nndar villa have heer dis
persed.
Nal. n;r.c+ i,or;rv
~ss.a.., paaans - 80.
rs : Las 5s,;sna tba danartD
n,ant that ~ AZ faIs+o gnyarnrnent af-
s,a;aI, - =, $3.50 Ma ;ntirnatad -
hHsn, tpa :. ,,sn,,Id III 20 hnnw hnu, Iong
4,.n ITnita.s Sta+as ;ntan5aa +. laan tba
nans ~ nSasion Aanairistrati op ar
asso;p.pn. - nna;tic, "a ~ fan.;1;an ,vtth
~ NSanioan sit,,a4ion m ia tho Ia f.ntn
~ ~ nat 80 , a,ta ,,nnn
"b;oh tha, tho,,gh+ Tho American
49,. .hn,,ya Ne ,nitharau nv r. ,uas "a
- - ~ a,,a ntar. ho,nenar
that n,,oh ,ctinn nf +ba 40 fa..n gcvern'
mert y,n,Id not ha s,,rnrisin1>
~ 49, &C. ~ 80 a,
=, nstan 70 tho pvar 6enartrnent ,,aaa
n,rIic Nv, secratarw Raisar TO-DAY ware
rized in tbe Following state
~nont.
1Irhe latest dispatches from Genera,
pershinp dated Ar.r,l q exnla;ns infre-
onancv ar inforrnation nv saving that
the yvire1ess has NOT been ahla ia work
and a~eronlane communicative has hean
difficult because Of lack of suitable
landing places.
Aeropianes Smashed.
"The disn,tch apain conf,ryas Tho
earlv renorf of villa heinr severalv
wo,nded In the r;pbt Knee
General parsr,inp renorts FRAT he
has had . yarv s.tisf.cfo,v confarenna
with General Hsrrera ana ernacts ~.
dav to meet Genaral Gnt;errez To whom
he sent nassages hv aeronlana to chi
hnah,Ia and recafyea hacI ran,ias nf
ferinr frI coonaration coraral Per
shine,s comment is thar eve,.u ;ndi-
$3.50 ,t,or,rn ~ 49, an
Of the 5afa cto ooyeronnent RI ai3 10 TIC
extent IF their ahilitv
"CIenera1 Pershins further renor+s
that ono nreoniana uas diaab,eT IN
landing Anril G lea wing only Ave ont
of the original eigh+ that apa no,v In
servicea hia nonditin, bn,t - =, 49,
that the a.ann1ano. =, 80. 80 -