Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-04-25
1900 MORE TROOPS
RUSHED TO MEXICO
General Funston Sends Men to
Aid PerShing.
VILLA HUNT AT STANDSTILL
Attack on American Cavairymen at
Parral and III Feeling Against
Soldiers Responsible for Delay
-Mexicans Seized Supplies?

San Antonio, Tex, April 19.-Gen-
eral Funston issued orders that will
place at the disposal of General Perish
ing $500 more troops. He has or
dered to proceed to Columbus, n. NJ,
the Sixth cavalry from the Browns
vile district, the Seventeenth infantry
from Eagle Pass, the First battalion
of the Twenty-fourtf infantry from
Eagle Pass, and Troop L from the
Tenth cavalry. Fort Apache.
General Funston's action follows
receipt of a report from General
Pershing in which the expedition COM
mander is believed to have made rec
concentrations that more effective IA
cilities for the pursuit of Villa be au-
thorized.
U. S. Forage Seized.
General Funston sent messages ask
ing that report be made to him at
once on the unofficial rumor that a
trainload of forage shipped from
Juarez to chihuahua and intended for
the American troops had been seized
The arrival of some of the supplies
sent to Chihuahua has been reported,
but no advices that they have reached
the army have been received.
Villas Death Unconfirmed.
General Funston is still waiting for
confirmation of the story that Villa
is dead.
General Bell, reporting from Ell
Paso to General Funston, gave it as
his opinion after as thorough an in
vestigation as he could make that the
report of Villas death had been man
ufactured in Juarez.
Consul Letcher, who reports he has
been in communication with Cusi-
huirachic, also has failed to verify
the rumor.
Villa Chase at a Standstil.
Camp of General Pershing at the
Front, by motor and wireless to Co
lumbus, n. NJ, April 19.-The Ameri-
can pursuit of Villa is at a stand
still because of the unprovoked at
tack upon American cavalrymen by
the insubOrdinate soldiers of the Car
rama garrison at Parral.
At General Pershing's headquarters
there seemed no prospect Of the re-
sumption of the chase, while there
were numerous indications that a
continuation of the pursuit would
meet with armed resistance.
Americans Fired On.
A small party of American officers
was fired upon near here Sunday night.
but none of the Americans were
wounded. This coming on the heels
of other reports of sniping is RESPONSE
BILE for the belief that the expedition
airy command is confronted with a
serious problem.
Reports reaching here from Carranza
sources said that a constitutionalist
force engaged a Villa command under
General Larangas, within a few miles
of this camp two nights ago, two Car
rama soldiers and one Villa bandit be-
ing killed.
1t was a detachment of General Lar
angas' force that attacked General
Pershing's escort train near here last
Tuesday night
Ell Paso, Tex, April 19.-There have
been no further reports of clashes be-
tween the American troops and civil
ians since the Parral affair, and dis
patches to General Gavira, military
commander at Juarez, state that the
Carranza officials have the situation
we'll in hand, though they admit that
the presence of the American troops is
a source of constant irritation to the
pOpulace.