The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-29
.CARRANzA
LET'S US.
Use R. R.
Favorable Reply Received To-
day at Washington.
Is Bound to Shorten Villa;
Chase in Mexico.
NO FIGHTING HAS OCCURRED
MeXicans Regain Confidence in
United States Troops.
Villa Told COuntrymen That
Negroes Ate Children.
Is Bound to Shorten Villa,
Chase in Mexico.
NO FIGHTING HAS OCCURRED'
Mexicans Regain Confidence I'M
United States Troops.
Villa Told COuntrymen That
Negroes Ate Children.

Washington, March 29.-Gen-
eral Carranza has decided to per-
nit the United States army too
use the Mexican Northwestern
railway for transportation in the
pursuit of the Villa bandits. Thet
use Of the railroad will so facili-
tate the movement of troops and
supplies that the work of the pu-t
nitive expedition in Mexico will.
be greatly shortened.
The success of the expedition de-
pends largely c3 getting men and sup-e
plies behind Villa quickly and to Dor-
tions of the country where the army
motor truck trains cannot go
Didn't Wait for Protocol.
| Ii is indicated that General Carl
rama has agreed to the use of thef
! of the American government in ad-
vance of the perfection of he formal
protocol for joint operations.
/ The permission for use of the rails
] road is not granted in military sense
and does not cover the r1ovement of
troops for which the American army
/ has not asked. 1t will, however, en- \
able Prshing's force to get supplies
in abundance in a country where mo-
tor truck trains cannot carry them
and will thus aid immeasurably in the
pursuit of the Villa bandits.
General CarranZa has agreed tol
permit the movement of supplies tot
/ the punitive expedition in Mexico over L
/ the Mexican Northwestern railroad.
| The supplies will go as commercial
freight to concerns in Mexico with
which the army has contracts
! Crews and Cars Engaged.
and his staff that Carranza would give
unqualified consent, if he gave a fav-
/ orable decision at all, that all arrange
! ments we're made for the use of the
/ American crews in the operation of
trains and tentative arrangement had
been completed for the immediate use
of rolling stock of other railroads.
Supplies Ready to Move.
Ell Paso. March 29-Supplies will
begin to go forward on the Mexican
! Northwestern railroad within few
hours after General Bell has received
official notification of the consent of
General Carranza to the use of the
road.
General Bell said everything was in
! readiness and he was prepared to act
Immediately he received word from
General Funston. He expressed the
greatest qualification over the news
that Carranza had granted the request
of the American government.
Funston Awaits Orders.
San Antonio. March 29.-'It will be
a question of hours only before sup
plies already stored at Ell Paso begin
moving over the Northwestern rail-
way to the troops in Mexico after Of
ficial notification reaches here" said
: General Funston when told of Car
ranza's decision. 1t had been hoped
that Carranza would impose no con-
dition but even with the stipulation
that the supplies must go as ordinary
1 fra iryl1f
situation is so great that keen satisfac-
ton was manifested at army head
quarters.
The line of motor trucks in opera
: ton from Columbus to CaSas Grandes
: will not be retired from service along
that line of communication until the
new ARA cement is well under way.
Should there be no hitch in the ship
ment by railroad it is expected Colum-
bus soon will be abandoned as a base.
! Ell Paso, March PA peaceful So
! luton of the relations between the
| United States and Mexico seemed
nearer today than a. any time since
the Villa raid on Columbus, n. M,
March g. which was followed within
a week by the American punitive ex-
pedition.
The peaceful nature of the Ameri-
can expedition. army officials here in
I dicated, was shown by the fact that
not an American soldier has been in
jured by a hostile bullet since the bor-
der was crossed two weeks ago.
Failure of an organized attempt on
/, both sides of the border to transform
| the campaign against bandits into in
| tervention, pleased both American and
Carranzista officials here. They lit-
| tie doubted that a "rumor factory
maintained in FL Paso and other bor-
der points. spread reports of Mexican
uprisings and racial antagonism to in
flame both sides and compel interven-
ton.
Negro Troops Eat Children.
+ United States army officers pointed
to the friendly reception given the ex-
peditionary force in Mexico. Villa has
so far failed to raise the poems against
the Gringoes, despite his speeches that
American troops were coming to MAG
/ sacre and burn. He told the Mexicans
/ that the United States negro troops ate
children. Some Mexicans first fled in
terrtor at the approach of the expedi-
/ ton vanguard but returned when they
found the soldiers friendly and willing
to pay a good price for supplies. Mex
| lean papers in border cities also failed
! to infIame the poems. Probably the
| only increase in Villas forces have
been secured at the rifle point