The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-04-21

MEXICO WARNS
U. S. OF DANCER
Carranza Unable to Control His
Troops or Mobs.
FUNSTON SENDS $500 MORE

Punitive Expedition Is Marking Time.
Pershng Fears to Further Lengthen
His Thinning Line of Communities
tion-ViIIa Death Story Dying Out.
U. S. SEXES Ammunition.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Carranzista
military authorities in southern Chi
huahua have served warning on Brig
adler General j. j. Pershing, comman-
der of the American forces in Mexico,
that any attempt on the part OF the
American expedition to proceed furth-
er south will lead to serious trouble.
Major General Frederick H. Fun
ston, forwarding the Pershing report,
is understood to have described as
threatening the attitude of the Car
ranzistas and to have asked for furth-
er instructions. He is said to have
added that in view of the information
in his possession he has already
thrown 1900 additional troops across
the border to guard the line of COM
munications.
There was no confirmation of press
reports from the border of fresh at
tacks by Carranzistas on PershingS
forces. The chase for Villa for the
present is halted, General Pershing
deeming it unwise to further. thin his
line of communication.
Secretary of War Baker, following
the receipt of the Funston dispatcl,
carried it personally to the office OF
Secretary of State Lansing. Before
seeing the President Secretary Baker
said:
eve have given no orders to General
Funston that change in any way the
character of the expedition or its
movements"
Germany Mixed Up in Attack.
Both the state and war departments
refused to comment on report I'M
.derstood to have been received here
from Pershing to the effect that the
German consul at Parral had been
one of tn eprime instigators of the at
tack there on the American troops un-
der Major Frank Tompkins in which
attack two Americans were killed, six
wounded and one reported as missing.
According to the report which Per-
shing is said to have sent the Ger
man representative was conspicuous
figure on the streets during the at
tack and appeared to be actively in
citing the MeXicans.
Villa Death Tale Dying Out.
Ell PASO, TEXAS. = Definite
word was received in Ell Paso by an
Ell Paso business man with interests
in Cusihuiriachic Chihuahua, that
there was nothing in the way of word
to confirm the report that Villa had
died at San Francisco De Borja or
that his body had been located by Of
ficers of the CarranZa forces.
The information is the first to reach
the border, with the exception of
wires received by the Constitutional
list authorities, and though the word
ing is guarded, it obviously is intend
ed to discredit the report that the
body of Villa has been found
However, Mexican Consul Garcia as
serts that he has additional dispatches
rom San Antonio, chihuahua, that
make him stronger than ever in the
belief that the body of Villa has been
exhumed and identified. He said he
received the information from the
telegraph operator at San Antonio
who sent him the first news Sunday
Of the reported discovery of the body.
The scars, bruises, marks and pecu
liarities of the body that made Pancho
Villa different from other men are
being assembled by the department of
state for use when what purports to
be the body of the bandit leader is
brcu@ht to Chihuahua or some other
place, for Identification