New Britain herald., 1916-04-03

City-Intcrior of Mexico Reported
 to be in ExcitabIe Condition-NcW Crop of Rumors Bloom Along Bor-
 der-Carranza General Still True. L Fl Paso, April 3-Almost within the grasp of the American cavalry after the battle of Guerrero, Francis co Villa was reported today 10 nave slipped the net closing about him and to have covered the trail of flight. Mexican officials in Juarez sought in- formation Of the brigand's where abouts, but the telegraph wires brought no definite word.
 Mexican reports had it that Villa and another band of his followers were moving on Chihuahua City, with the intention of getting the garrison of the de facto government there to revolt and join him him against the Americans. These reports, brought here by travellers, were secuted by Mexican Consul Garcla-
 After Other Villa Bands While the bandits main command was scattered at the battle of Guer- rero, it is believed here that Villa has several other large bodies of men dis posed at convenient positions in the continental divide and that Colonel Dodd and his American troops may Nome in contact with them at any time. While the search for Villa con- tinues, Colonel Dodd will seek to de- stroy armed bodies of Villa forces which are a contant menace to the line of American communication.
 
 operations of the Carranza forces against the Villa bands. General .Bertani has sent no report to the sJuarez headquarters for several days and what assistance the troops of the de facto government is giving Gener- al Pershing and his men IS not known.
 Trains on Northwestern.
 Traffic over the Mexican Northwest ern railway is becoming more active since the advent of the American ex- peditionary forces in the Casas Gran des and Madeira districts. A freight train arrived from Casas Grandes to- day and later mixed passenger and freight train started out for Pearson, thirty miles south of Casas Grandes. Two carloads of oats and two of ex- press merchandise shipped by private parties, but expected eventually to reach the army made up the freight consignment.
 The passengers included many Am ericans returning to the interior after flight to the border following the Columbus massacre.
 Trying to Entice Garrison.
 Fl Paso, Tex, April 3.-Reports from Mexican sources in the interior received today asserted Francisco Villa was headed toward Chihuahua City and that his emissaries were attempt Ling to influence the garrison of that town from their allegiance to the de facto government.
 Nothing was said in the reports of Villas alleged injuries an omission which helped to confirm the opinion already freely expressed on the bor- der that the bandits wounds were an invention of his own, reported with the intention of deceiving his pursu- CTS.
 The absence of any official news from the front since the defeat of the Villa band near Guerrero by Col Dodd last Wednesday has considerably dashed the hopes of those who saw in the victory the beginning of the end of the bandits career. At the same time it is pointed out that the American cavalrymen have a formid- able task before them in searching the barren mountain waste where Villa is . supposed to have taken refuge. The fact that no further fighting has been reported is taken as an indication that the bandits have been effectually scattered by the American troopers.
 Many Sensational Rumors.
 k rrSuoI in, ba Joclx of daf,i1o formation, the border is again a hive of rumors of an alarming and sen Bational character. The majority Of these rumors are based on stories brought from the interior by Mexicans and the few Americans who struggle in here by ones and twos daily. The most circumstantial of these stories at present deals with the reported de- lection of Col. Cano, the Carranza commander at Namiquipa.
 Cano is the chief lieutenant of Gen. Luis Herrera, who was supposed to have declared against Carranza sev- eral days ago, 9 report that was wig orously denied by the officials of the fde facto government.
 The main facts in support of Cano' s revolt are that he has not been heard from for more than a week and that ne IS known to have expressed stron g anti-Am erican sentiments on several occasions Like Herrera, Cano has been bitter enemy of Villa and it is mot supposed that if he has deserted the standard of the first chief he has Joined the fugitive but has simply de- clared himself against any co-opera- hon with the soldiers of the United States
 good deal of significance is at zfached to the fact that while Gen, Ga