Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-17
Two Army Aeroplanes Leave Columbus, N. M., at Sum- set to Join Army, Said to be Somewhere in Mexico"
PERSHING RETURNS
 FOR CONFERENCE
Wounded Villa Bandits Are Found in Palomas. Base of Hospital is Established in Fl Paso. t
cRv Norman M. Walker.l


 FL PASO, March 1.-Two biplanes arose from the plains of Columbus, cir cled Ike giant birds in the air and darted of 10 the south this evening at sunset to join the column of invasion which is bivouacing somewhere in Mexico" for the second lap of the lonc tourney after Pancho Villa, the bandit.
 Whero the American column is to~ night: where they will march tomor- row. and what has happened since they tramped across the border re- mains as much a mystery tonight as if the cloud of dust. which enveloped them. had been a curtain to shut them out of the world. The censorship is riaid and is being respected by all of inc correspondents on the border as matter of American honor and no one has violated the last request Of General Pershing before he left for the south. that nothing be said of the troops movements beyond the border After accompanying the main column across the border General Pershing re- turned across the line today and held a long conference by wire with his su7 Derior officer General Funston, al Fort Sam Houston. He then rode back across the line in his little Ford and is spending the night tonight with his boys" below the border with the ground for a bed and the moonlight for his candle. When he returned Gener- al Pershing sent a message to Fort Bliss to establish a base hospital here where all of the seriously wounded American soldiers will be received by the motor ambulances and be treated in the new quarters which are now being arranged. A relay hospital will aleo be established al Columbus. field hospital at Palon'as and dress ing station immediately in the rear of the first line troops.
 To avoid having any men to care for at this field hospital General Pershing ordered all of the physically unfit out of the ranks al the line and car load of them reached here to- night for the fort base hospital.
 When the American troops entered Las Palomas, across the border yes terday afternoon, more than 90 Villa tandits were found in hiding in the homes where they had gone after be- ing wounded by the United States troops in Columbus They were suffer ing terribly from their wounds which had not been treated and many had gangrene and magots in their wounds. They were sent to Columbus for treat ment
 The body of Jose Pereyra, Carran- za's personal representative in Colum- bus 10 watch Villas movements, was also found by the invading column d. cross the border in Mexico. Pereyra was captured by Villa in the Conner cial Hotel and was being led away to be tortured when an American bull let mercifully ended his life. He was identified by his hat-band. Villas bodyguard and his paymasteT were ar rested here tonight, the latter being wounded.
 Villa snipers were at work again today. One fired on a Texas and Paci- fic train within five miles of the city and the bullet hit three inches above the head of the engineer, Tony With holder The sniper thought the pas senger train was a troop train carrying the 11th Cavalry 10 Columbus. part of this command crossed this after noon into Mexico. and the remainder is expected 10 cross to join General Pershing tomorrow. General Georgd Bell. Jr. is rapidly whipping his ten tative expeditionary force of the sec ond line into shape and it will be req dy to move into Mexico by Sunday if il is needed