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GUTIERREZ, 4 VILLA
LEADER. u. s. PRISONER

not rapid enough to make 1t possible to
continue the Mexican expedition much
longer by the Use only OF the regulars.
army officers say.
IT all the regular organizations could
Immediately be recruited tn full war
strength az authorized by Congress i'm
mediately following the entry Of the ex-
pedition into Mexico the regular army
would be large enough 10 cope with the
situation for some time 70 come. but very
few recruits have reached the border as
yet and these will require time for drill
ling and trimming before they can be
sent In to Join the colors or before they
can even be of service In the border
patrol.
In addition TO the hay and "a
shipped to-day over the Mexican Cen
trail n train will leave Juarex for Casas
orandes tomorrow morning carrying six
ears OF easolene. n car of flour and
one car Of coal oil for cooking purposes,
The supplies are handled by commission
firms and are intended 10 reach the
American troops.
50 great is the need Of gasoiene that
every third car making the trip south
under the present conditions would have
to carry a complete load OF gasolene In
order to have All adequate supply for
the return passage Of the trucks.
Two men with broken legs. one with
a broken arm. several suffering with
pneumonia and several others with
minor ailments. tw~enty-one IN all. were
brought to the Fort Bliss Hospital TO.
day from the front In Mexico.
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DENY GREEK SALE TO ByLGARs.
Despite Government Statement
Pablo IL Much Excited.

LONDON. April l2.-The Greek Govern
according to the dispatches from
Athens. published to-day a denial of the
statement made by the Paris Tennis to
the effect that Minister Gounaris had al.
lowed Greek officials to sell to Bulgaria
1900 sacks OF property belonging to
Russia AT Salonica, The Minister asserts
that certain sacks were iequisi,ioned bu,
that Greek property was used for the
Greek army.
The Daily Md'rs correspondent at
Athens says that the AFFAIR has created
great excitement among the press and
public there. The Bulgarian Minister to
Greece he says, Joined Minister Gou-
iaris IN the denial of the French papers
statements. The question occupies public
to the exclusion OF everythi,r.
else. Even Eerdun IL forgotten"
The newspaper Ethnos says:
THE heart OF the people Grows faint
before such a sinister state of affairs.
1t is no longer a question OF Intervention
OF neutrality. ii is a question OF "A colossal
peril sprung upon the state and the
people. Tile probable onsequences will
give rise TO the deepest pessimism. We
trust that the facts are not as alleged. -
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SILENT
ON The VILLA HUNT
Secretary Lansing Denies
First Chief Said He Would
Not Interfere.

WASHINGTON, April l2.-Secretary
Lansing denied tonight a report printed
this morning to the efrec, that the United
states has assurances from Carranza
that he will not interfere In n way
with the operations of The American ex-
petition that is hunting villa.
Although the negotiations for the pro-
posed protocol between the two Govern
ernments are still under consideration
the Secretary said IA, no assurances
OF non-in;erference by Carranza nor any
protests against operations OF the ex-
ped.iion had been received.
IL an effort TO obtain n more direct
route for the shipment or supplies 10 the
American expedition in Mexico Gen.
Funston. according to a export, which he
made to the War Department To-day.
has begun sending shipments 10 Chihua-
hua by way Of the Mexican Central
railroad instead of the MeNioan North
western. In this way he VII be able
TO save half the distance.
He reported tina, nine carloads Of
forage for the cavalry with Pershing
had zone forward over the Mexican
Central consigned to Consul Letcher at
Chihuahua and will be transshipped to
the American base at Satevo over the
Mexican Northwestern from that point.
Despite the fact hat the Carranza
Government never has given formal con-
sent for the use Of the railroads. the fact
that no obstacles are being .~n;erposcd
Is regarded as an encouraging sign.
III this shipment Is successful" Gen.
Funston reported. "Other large ones will
follow. II is hoped the shipment will
reach Gen. Pershing through the Amerl-
can Consul at Chihuahua. Commenting
on the new plan. Major.Gen. Scott. Chief
of Staff. said that direct use OF the
Mexican lines and the consignment OF
the supplies TO Consul Letcher will enable
the army to avoid the more complex
system OF shipping through mining COM
panies or brokers
Threatened revolt against the Car
rama authorities on the west coast OF
Mexico heal Maxatlan is causing con-
Germ here. The United States supply
ship Glacier has reported to the Navy
Department that trouble is anticipated
and for that reason the American Consul!
H. advising Americans in the vicinity
to return to the United States.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels denied
this afternoon that the navy transport
Hancock. ordered 10 Mexican waters
from New Orleans. is required TO take
American refugees from Tampico and
other unsettled coast ports. lie eS-
planned that the Hancock. with not more
than twenty marines, her usual compile
ment. is merely going there to dis
tribute fresh supplies to the American
warships at Vera Cruz III Tampico.
The battieship Kentucky Is at the for
mer port and the gunboats Machias and
Marietta are at IN
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AMERICANS ARE SLAIN
BY BANDITS IN SONORA
San Diego Gets Navy Wireless
Telling Of Raids Near
Guaymas.

Los ANGELES. Cal. April IA mum.
Der OF Americans have been killed and
wounded by bandits In raids near Quay
mas. Sonora. according to a wireless
message received by naval authorities
at San Diego to-day.
The snessage was transmitted TO the
Navy Department at Washington and an
order was Immediately sen, to the
cruiser Denver. now at san Bias, Tepic,
to hurry To the Sonora port and ascer-
tain conditions there. The Denver vas
on the way to San Diego from Cor
rinto, Nicaragua. and would have ar
rived here on Friday had she no, been
intercepted.
Refugees from interior points Of
Sinaloa. fleeing on account OF growing
luminosity toward American citizens and
the prevalence OF bandi'ry. are expected
to reach San Diego early next week on
the supply ship Glacier
Naval authorities at San Diego would
give out no information other than that
a number of Americans near Guaymas
had been killed and wounded. but II is
believed here that the raids we're made
on the American settlement near Quay.
mas by laqui Indians, who have been
threatening death to all Americans
throughout the Yaqui Valley for the
last two years.
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COLUMBUS TRAITOR HELD.
Wills Man. = Prisoner, Identified
as Raucher There.

COLUMBUS. y. NJ. April l2.-Jose Mar
tela, one Of the wounded bandits brought
here from FL Vale. where the United
States troops made prisoners Of a num-
Der Of Pancho Villas men abandoned
there in his flight south. has been identi-
fed as a man formerly a resident Of Co.
lumbus. The man was employed here
and on nearby ranches prior to thu villa
aid and the officers believe that he kept
villa posted on the condition Of the
American border patrol and gave point
.rs or how easiest TO attack and loot
Columbus.
DIR. w. T. Brown Of FL Paso. called to
Casas Grandes TO attend Lieut-Col.
Tyree Rivers. Thirteenth Cavalry. who
is suffering with pneumonia, returned to-
day and said the Colonel had passed the
crisis and had q fighting chance to re.
cover.
~ cannot pay too high a compliment
to the army surgeons for their splendid
equipment at Casas Grandes." said DR..
Brown. " Everything that could be done
for Lieut.. Col. Rivers was being done.
and he could not have had better atten-
ton In any modern hospital. II is a good
thing that he was not sent upon the
train. for such "A trip would certainly
have cost him his life"
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Air Raid Damage .~.Terriac."

BERLIN. via London. April 1.-THE
overseas News Agency announced to-
day hat Dutch sailors returning from
England to Rotterdam report that ter
rifle damage was done by the most re-
cent Zeppelin raids. The statement says {:
'Leith. Hull. Sunderland. Newcastle
and Grimsby suffered horribly, the nutcn
sailors reported, In Leith harbor a
British four masted ship was completely
destroyed. At the railroad station "A
train was hit, n a big spirit factory.
hit by an ~inccndiary bomb, burned down.
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INQUIRY BEGUN INTO
STOKES.DIAZ PLOT
Department Of Justice to See
IL Wealthy New Yorker
Can BE Prosecuted.
DIAZ rs NOW IN MEXICO

WARRINGTON. April 12.-rnvestisation
is under way by agents Of the Depart
ment Of Justice into statements reported
TO have been made at Lexington, KY,
yesterday by W. r.. n. Stokes Of New
York 70 the effect that he wa the Amer
lean representative Of Felix Dias,
nephew Of the late Gen. Porfrio Diaz.
has launched a revolution in southern
Mexico against the Carranxa Govern.
ment.
Diaz. who agents Of the Department
have been watching for SOM. time. Ia
reported to have slipped through their
fingers. embarking from New Or
leans. Is said to a appeared at Ia
pachula, IN the State Of Chiapas. at the
head OF a force OF approximately $4,000
men. T~apachula Is across the frontier
from Guatemala, the Government OF
which has been frequently accused Of
fostering revolution against Carransa.
While ofncials Of the Department Of
Justice admit there may be some dis
tinction between the act OF supplying
money to a man about to start q revolu-
ton and supplying funds TO a man en-
gagged in a revolution against a friendly
Government, the statements OF Mr..
Stokes. if the latter wa correctly quoted.
arr Of sufficient Importance to bear in
v~cstigation. II II In shown that the New
York man Was engaged In any infraction
of the neutrality laws Of the United
States he will be prosecuted.
That Stokes has been friendly with
Diaz. II was stated. has been known
TO agents OF the Department who hav
been watching the movements OF Diaz
in this country. and his connections with
Diaz AVE been carefully checked up.
Stokes was quoted In the interview
with saying hat Diaz refused ar
offer from "a European Power to start
a revolution in Mexico because he be-
lieved that Power was hostile to the
United States and had also rejected an
offer OF . 200. 900 to pool his interests
with those of the late Gen. Huerta. the
deposed dictator OF Mexico. who was try
ing to start a revolt against Carranza.
Reports from Mexican quarters in San
Antonio state that Diaz plans to march
on Mexico city. $50 miles from Tapa-
chula and that he is TO be Joined in
the undertaking by ZapatA.
The inquiry Of the Department OF
Justice into the u~,terances OF Mr.. Stokes
the state Department. Secretary Lam
sing saying his afternoon hat the
statement OF the New York man had
mo-, been brought officially to his at
tention.
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Drop Opposition 4" Match TAG.

LONDON. April 1.-THE manufacturers
Of matches have Withdrawn Their oypo-
sition TO the i'm o.iti"u of the proposed
tax ON ma.chr- certain difficulties
connected with the situation have beer
overcon" L.! The ioE,Tum"Ht and as -
result the manufacturers have informed
Reginald McNcnua. chancellor of the Ey-
chequer, that they Ala du all they can
10 assis: him ~ levyiuc the tax. The
proposed tax on matches WAS - be At
the rate of four pence per thousand.
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FRANCE TO LIMIT FOOD COST.
senate Adopts Plan 10 Fix Naxi.
mum Prices by Decrees,

PARIS. April l2-The French Senate
adopted to-day in principle the Govern
ment's proposal to fix by DEGREES maxi
mum prices for necessaries. The ar
ticies upon which II il proposed to fix
maXHrum prices are bread. meat. milk
butter. imitation butter. Eggs. lard. po-
tatoes. uga cheese. green vegetables.
wine. cider. table heer, fertilizers. petro.
leum and fuel alcohol.
The measure IL to remain In effect
FOR the duration OF the war and three
months after the cessation o. hostil,-
ties.
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MAY EXTEND MILITARY ACE.
Britain Considering strp-CarsC
for General COmpuIsiOu
Auec.li CdhI< NesndfcL 10 THE ST.

LONDON. April l3.-Sir Edward Carson
has given notice that he will introduce
a motion in the lou Of Commons 10
amend the military service act So as to
require as far as possible equal sacrifice
by all men Of military age by making
all liable to service.
The Daily Mall says the question OF
general compulsion VII he brought to
u head by the motion. which will he
debated on April ~. and adds that
the Government supporters him there is
a probability .of the Government an
n~ouncing an extension Of the age limit to
-. compulsion to be applied TO all single
men,
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BRITAIN EXTENDS coNTRABAND

Spsciel Caois DespotcA to tbs Sun.

LONDON. April 1.-THE Official Ga
settle issued this afternoon an extended
list of absolute c~ontraband. The new
list comprises all money. negotiable in
struments. realisable securities. metallic
chlorides. except chloride sodium. metal
Ioidic compounds OF carbon, starch,
borax, bcr!c acid and other boron COM
pounds. sabadilla seeds as we'll as prepa-
rations therefrom. and white paper.
The years output Of coal in Great
resents a decrease Of nearly 1850. 900
tons. as compared with tho previous
year.
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SAYS POPE WILL URGE PEACE.
Rome Report IL Ponti6 VIII Qu-s.
tiOn Britain. and Germany.
>Deo,d! Gable Despatch TO The Sc,

LONDON. April 1.-THE Rotterdam
correspondent Of the Daily Maj tile
graphs
~"AccGding TO the Rome ~or!esponde
Of a Dutch Catholic paper. the Pope as
a resul, Of the lates; speeches OF the
Imperial German Chancellor, Dr. won
Bethmann-Hollweg. and Premier As
auth will question Germany and Great
Britain respecting prospects of peac.
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NVetTHT 'HUV HVNV"F'W 10 Ut STN.
LONDON. April lo-Premier Asquith
promised a %deputation Of married re-
cruits to-day that financial compensa-
ton would he made where there were
exceptional sacrifices. The Premier will
speak on the subject Of recruiting next
Tuesday, Sir Edward Carson's con-
scription motion is to he debated soon.
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Afraid to Cot Wires.

Thus far there has been little or no
Interference with the telephone o. tele-
graph lines. which Is taken as an md
cation that the natives either are
friendly or that they are afraid To do any
of the wire cutting which In times pas,
has been one of the favori;c pastimes of
the people of those sections Of the couf-
try in which military operations have
been conducted.
Paragraph deleted by censor
on one OF two occasions the field icie-
graph and telephone lines have been cut,
but in every instance II has subsequently
been found that the cutting has been the
result Of accident and that no political
Significant could attach 10 the occur
renee. The wires are laid upon 'he
ground and may easily he cu' or broken
by passing wagons OF dToves Of cattle
which might be driven over them.
The good work being lone by the ell
gineers attached to tho expedition in
the way % mapping the country through
which each column passes and In making
the roads passable for the countless sup
ply wa ~ and motor truck trains 5
worthy of much more than a passing
mention. The engineers are not much
In the limelight. but they are there with
the good work which makes II possible
for the fgh,!ng men OF the expedition
10 dc the work they are doing in ihe
matter a; making Mexico too no, TO
hold the peipetrat0r OF tile Columbus
massacre.
The engineers are always In the van
guard and ara the first men 10 HIT the
trail ever. morning They cannot daily
The scouts ahead point the way and The
engineers make II passable FOR the
heavily laden trucks and wagons which
carry the immense mounts Of food
which the soldiers must have ( they are
To do the work assigned them.
Being an engineer is a man. job. and
when this expedition completes the duty
10 which It has been assigned the ceu-
tral portion OF the state OF Chihuahua
will have some OF the hest wagon roads
IL ever had and the United States Ill
have some maps and other typographical
data which will make other expeditions.
{ there should be any. much ~tasiec.
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II The publishers OF American news
papers or the readers Of those papers
are wondering why so much less mat
ter has been sent for publication by she
correspondents attached to this eNpe-
dition han was sent. for instance. by the
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Right Of Removal.

y may add thai, the action U. the
United states Government in forwarding
requests for safe conducts for agents Of
States at war with this country whose
action had been such that their continued
presence IN the United States could no
longer be tolerated affords a strong in
d.cation that the right to remove certain
classes Of persons from neutral ships can,
IN the circu'r&tance OF tins present war.
not he confined to persons embodied in
NE armed forces of a beiligerent.
" may add for the condential infor-
nation Of the Government Of the United
States that from actual occurrences n
from reliable information received ii has
been definitely established that the Ger
mans resident in Shanghai have been
engaged Cor some time past in h col
lection of arms and ammunition, both
for clandestine Transmission to India
and II possible for the arming Of a ship
10 play the part of a Far Eastern
Aloewe.
His Msjesty's Government were able
10 cope with this activity to a con-
siderable extent and obtained the ar
rest OF various German agents caught
IN The act Of attempting TO smuggle arms
"ut Of Shanghai further. the Germans
t@asme aware that his Majesty's GOv-
rillInrut knew OF their plots. The COM
nsnder IN chief, China station, received
Information that owing to this fact the
''ennaiIe were planning to shift the rem
IRE of Their activity from Shanghai to
Manila. Subsequently he was definitely
informed that thirty-hve Germans a
PLANNED to leave Shanghai in the steam
mp Chtna and proceed to Manila.
His MdJesty's ships were sent 10
V'atrul on the mouth OF the Yangtse with
he view Of intercepting this party. The
Gate Of the China's departure was more
tlan once postponed, but she eventually
sailed was intercepted by his Majesty's
nip Laurentic and found to have on
board Germans and Austrians CORE
%.pondirg to those concerning whom in
formation ~ mentioned above had been
received The Laurentic therefore had
10 hesitation in removing them. h
next os,drslble port of call OF the China
was Nagasaki. a convenient place at
which 20 transfer to another vessel pro-
escdlng 10 Manila.
TT may be added that subsequent in
formation fully confirms that the move
lnent of the body of Germans In question
was al integral part Of the plot re-
TERED to above"
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~ GEORGE n. GLE MENTs
Special corvespondens OF TuE SITS

FIELD HEADQUARTERS: UNITED STATES
ARMY. NEAR NurvAs CAsAs GRAHDEs,
Mexico. April Scouts returning from
the extreme front AVE much to say re-
garding the wonder expressed by friendly
natives at the facility with which the
American commanders In the field OBJ
tain accurate information Of the move
ments not only Of Villas bands but OF
all natives whether under suspicion OF
being connected with n Of the war
ring factions In Mexico or not.
Not only Ia the Aero Corps very much
In evidence gathering information. but
the signal Corps has strung field seIc-
graphs and telephones in every direction,
enabling the commanders OF the half
dozen or more Of columns spread fan
wise over a front of nearly seventy-five
miles to keep In constant communication
with headquarters or with each other.
In addition are a dozen or more Of small
wireless outfits. pack sets they are
called. because carried on pack saddles
on the backs Of mules. These are set
up wherever necessary and when tuned
up enable the command with which they
are travelling to get into quick com-
m%unication with any other command
which may be towering In the vicinity
within a radius OF fifteen or twenty
miles.
At the advanced base established is a
~"teiefunken.' a wireless machine of
German design. operated by an electrical
current generated by IA gasolene engine
which forms Il part Of the OUTFIT.
This '~telefunken'' or wagon set as
the soldiers call IL. to distinguish II from
49,
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Fay Case Referred To.

War has in effect been extended far
beyond the bounds of the area in which
opposing armies manuuvre and an un.
.scr,pulous belliserent may infict the
deadliost blows Oh his enemy in regions
remote from actual fighting.
1T may be recalled thai a certain Lieu
tenant Robert Fay of the German army
was reported in the press last autumn 10
have been detected experimenting with
bombs designed TO destroy merchant ships
leaving America and operating in the
Interests of the enemies OF Germany. He
vas said TO have admitted that he was
cent 10y tho German authorities TO the
United states expressly for this purpose
hls Mdjesty's Government are not aware
what degree OF truth there may be In
rms story, but numerous incidents in
America and elsewhere have shown that
NE facts may be AS stated and may be
i!Sical.
1t is then evidently OF the Sreatest
Importance for = h~elligeren. Power to
intercept on the high seas not only
mob..i sed members OF the opposing army
who may be found travelling on neutral
shie, but also those agents whom
the enemy sends to injure his op-
ionent abroad. or whose services he
enjoys without having himself commits
stoned them. Practical considerations
from the lelligerent's point OF view have
'tanged and the change necessarily i'm
pli@ a mohifctaion In the precise descrip-
ton OF enemy subjects whom IL is la wful
70 arrest. suSposing such a precise de-
Scr!ption can Ice said TO have existed in
any binding form.
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BRITAIN UPHOLDS
SEIZURES ON CHINA
Tells I. s. TcutOns Taken
From American Ship Were
PlOttprs.
SHANGHAI SPY CENTRE

wAsHiSoroS. April lc.-The text Of
Great Brttain's note replying TO the
American protest against the seizure Of
th,rty-eight Germans. Austr'ans and
Turks on the American steamer China
near Shanghai WIS to-day made public
by the State Department, AS previously
stated. 1t contends that the seizure was
justified on the ground that the prison.
ers were engaged In plots against Great
Britain In the Far East and we're not
flag or the high seas. The note. signed
by Sir Edward Grey. is In part as fol-
lows
His Majesty's Government have given
the most carcfui consideration to the
memorandum which your Excellency was
sood enough 10 communicate to me on
he 2itn ult'mo. conveying q protest from
he United States Government against
The removal or thirty-eight enemy sub
iccis by his MaJesty's ship Laurentlc
from the steamship China In the high
seas of the entrance to the Yangtse
River. and I now have the honor TO offer
tie following observations as an en-
'ressioD of the views OF his Matesty's
Government in regard to the matter.
'Ine present war has shown that the
oeIligerent activity OF the enemies OF this
country is by no means confined to the
actual theatres of military and naval OPP
eratfons and that there is no limit to the
Methods by which Germany in particu.
lar seeks to secure IA victory for her
asD1S Thn ha&stfa .V..s. - ---