The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
Promise Not to Use Mexi- cans Railways Reported to Have Been Madeline of Communication Are Shortening Through Use of Motors Withdrawal in Sixty Days Expected.

Fl Paso, Tex.,- May 4-Only the official sanction of President Wilson and Gen Carranza is now needed to complete the agreement drawn up at the conference between Gen. Scott, Chief of Staff of the American army. and Gen. Obregon, Mexican Minister or War; regarding Gen. Pershing's s pursuit of Villa and his bandits.
 The agreement is said to contem- plate that the American troops be withdrawn gradually from the speci- fled area, troops of the de facto gov ernment taking their places, until Gen. Pershing'S forces are all locat- ed in the vicinity of Colonia DubIan As the Mexican campaign against the bandits progresses and the necessity for maintaining American troops south of the border becomes less evil dent, they will be withdrawn until all have been removed to American soil.
 Having been kept constantly advis- ed of the progress of the conference, Gen- Pershing left Mamiquipa today for San Antonio, seventy miles south to inspect the troops and attend their movement north. It is understood here that the field base established at Satevo was abandoned some oays ago.
 Won't Use Railroads
 While neither Gen. Scott nor Gen. Obregon would discuss their agree ment, it is understood the United States representative conceded to Obregon the point regarding the use of the Mexican railways by American troops.
 Gen. Obregon declared that the spectacle of foreign troops taking and using Mexican trains would so in flame public sentiment that the gov erhment could not restrain the popu-s lace from bloody incidents, though the government would be willing
 
 ways for the withdrawal of the troops, since the act itself would be sufficient to please rather than excite the people.
 Gen. Scott is understood to have yielded the point observing that with in something more than 100 miles of the. boRder, the motor supply trains would be equal to all necessities
 Gen. Gabriel Gavira, Carranzal Commandant of Juarez, sent the fol- lowing telegram today to all the com manding officers in his zone:
 A conference has taken place
 in Ell PasoS between Gen. Scott,
 Chief of Staff of the American
 Army and Gen: Obregon. Minis
 ter of War for Mexico. It term
 mated at nnidnignt tTuesday) af-
 ter d. twelve 7Feur session. The
 results were distinctly favorable
 to the Mexican nation. The ma-
 jor portion of the American forces now4on Mexican soil wilIs Joe with
 drawn in a specified time and the
 remainder will follow All in all,
 the results of the conferences so
 far have been greatly in favor of
 the SMex1can people.
 s'I am not certain just how long the American troops will remain in Mex tco,'' said BaIdomero A AIvado, fis- cal agent of the Carranza govern ff- drawn in thirty or sixty days. Gen. Obregon regards the results as dis tinctly favorable to Mexco.~
 Gen. Qbregon, while the conference was in session, sent a telegram to Gen. Carranza reporting progress MT. Almado received a telegram from Carranza in reply this morning. It read as follows
 I beg to notify you have re-
 ceived your telegram reporting
 progress am delighted t ohear that you are progressing and that
 an amicable ending of the nego-
 tiations is in sight.
 V CARRANzA. ,f
 Mexican officials say that in view of the disposition of Carranza troops to be made by Gen.. Obregon in CO., operation with the American forces, the hunting down. of the bandit groups in Chihuahua and Durango can scarcely take more than two months. On assurances from Gen. Carranza that the bandits are dis persed, the northward movement of American troops will attain full speed, and it will not be long until the last trooper crosses over the international boundary line.
 In the meantime, it was pointed out. there will be constant move nents northward of American de- tachments, so that when the final or der for withdrawaI comes there will be only a, part of the present expedi- tionary force of 17,0OO men left on