The log cabin Democrat., 1916-06-29
CARANzA.C COMPLIES WITH U.S.DEMANDS'
PRISONERS ARE RELEASED
Twenty-Three Troopers Held at Chi huahua City to Oe Delivered to
 U. s. Headquarters.

Fl Paso, Texas, June 29.-Gen. Ja- cinto Trevino has ordered that the American prisoners interned in the penitentiary at Chihuahua City be taken to Juarez and there, with their arms and accoutrements, be released. This information was received at the Juarez headquarters last night
 Mexican authorities asserted that Gen. George Bell, Jr., commanding the Fl Paso military district, had been mo- tified of Gen. Trevino's order and that the prisoners are expected to reach JuareZ tomorrow. Gen. Bell did not deny the report, but refused to discuss it.
 There are 23 American troopers held at Chihuahua City, excluding Lem Salisbury, the Mormon scout.
 Coincident with reports that Car ranzista forces have been concentrated with view to holding the railroads of Chihuahua in the event of hostil- ties with the United States, American military authorities here were taking steps that would render theem prac- tically independent of railroads for the transportation of troops and sup plies.
 A train of 27 armed motor trucks with fuel tank cars and repair trucks arrived today and was assigned to the local brigade, while at the office of the depot quartermaster it was an nounced that two additional trains were expected to arrive from eastern factories today Steps have been taken also looking toward the commandeer- ing of such trucks as are available in Fl Paso should conditions warrant.
 Reports to military authorities on the border indicate that Gen. Pershing is retaining at each of his chain of field bases number of empty trucks for the rapid transportation if neces- sary of troops and supplies across country. Only a few of the trucks of the 12 trains in operation with the expeditionary forces are being used to transport supplies from Columbus,
  ment having been concentrated at Dublan, Fl Valle and other American bases. Many of the trucks in use here and in the field are equipped with removable device by means of which they can be used as locomotives on railroads, and in the event of a break in the line can be detoured over the highways.
 Military authorities here pointed out that in the event of hostilities Gen. Trevino's preparations to hold the railroads would avail him little, as the efficacy of the motor truck in the Mexican territory has been demon strated by Gen. Pershing's forces again and again.
 For the second time within a week Juarez, the Mexican town across the Rio Grande, was practically evacuated by Carranzista troops, only Gen. Fran cisco Gonzales, commandant, and a small body-guard, remaining in the city. It was asserted that about LOGO men, including the command of Gen. Jose Flores, left Juarez in the last 24 hours for Villa Ahumada, from which place they are to be distributed to the various CarranZista concentration camps.
 Civilians, many of them in new American clothes, indicating that they had crossed the border at Carranza' recent call, mounted guard at the com mandancia, the customs house and the international bridges. Also doing sen try duty were numbers of peons fresh from the ranches, their Tapping som hrcros and sardalled feet being in striking contras5 to the dapper cloth ing of the comrades in arms.