Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-06
RENEW DEMANDS
on GEN. CARRANzA
State Department Again
Calls Upon Provisional
Chief to Act.
Supplies Must BE Started
Immediately to Per-
shing's Command.

WASHINGTON. April 4.-Coinci-
that American troopers again had
clashed with u force of villa bandits
near Guerrero. it was learned at the
state department that the United
States had renewed it's representations
to General Carranza regarding the
shipment of supplies to General Per-
shing over the Mexican railroads. y
dispatch sent Sunday instructed Spe-
cial Agent John l.. Rodgers at Quere-
taro To urge the head of the de facto
government to fulfill Immediately his
promise given last week to permit
commercial use of the railroads by
the American expedition by giving the
necessary orders to General Gavira at
Juarez. and other Mexican com
manders in Chihuahua.
Every day it has been expected that
General Funston would send his first
shipment over the railroads to the
army field headquarters, but from
time to time action has been delayed
on account of the absence of specific
orders from CarranZa to his subordi-
mates.
Must Act at Once.
With General Pershing's lines of
communication constantly lengthen-
ing as evidenced today by reports of
the hunt for villa extending further
and further southward, and the an
nOuncement that additional troops
had been sent into Mexico. the war
department advised the state depart
ment that it was essential that ar
rangements for the use of the rail-
roads be concluded at once.
General Funston transmitted the
following dispatch from General Per-
shing:
"Headquarters in the field, April
(April daily reporD. Report just
received from Major Evans, Tenth
cavalry by courier from vicinity Of
Rubio that Colonel Brown with squad
ION Tenth cavalry encountered band
Villistas and was pursuing them
through San Antonio. No further de-
tails. No report from Brown.
Natives travelling from Chihuahua
state that Browns command part as
mounted and part mounted surprised
Villistas at noon meal with horses
grazing near Aguas Calientes about
twenty miles southeast Of Bechineva.
Natives say from thirty to forty
Villistas killed and same number
horses captured. All this lacks veri-
fication from official sources.
(Signed) "PERSHING."
Secretary Baker in making 1t pub.
lie said it was rather confusing. He
expressed the belief that Major Evans
while in pursuit of the bandits mad
hurriedly sent courier stating that
fact but had been unable to send an
official report Of the actual fighting
reported to have ensued.
The Tenth cavalry is the army's
crack negro troop. famed for exploits
during the Spanish American war.
A report from General Funston dis
posed of recently circulated rumors
that Colonel Dodd was not with his
troops in the attack on Villas main
command on March 29. The message
said
Troops engaged at Guerrero with
Villistas were commanded in person
by Colonel Dodd."
No details concerning the number
of additional soldiers sent into Mexico
were made public but it was learned
that they were detachments OF the
Twentieth and Twentyfourth infan-
try Earlier reports that the Fifth
cavalry had gone across were not con-
firmed. The infantry moved in two
days ago, but censorship along the
border kept the fact secret.
Death of another bandit leader,
General Nicholas Morales, an ally of
the famous Arrieta brothers in Duran-
go. was reported in mail reports re-
ceived by the war department today.
Morales and an escort were said to
have been killed March 10 by noun
tain ranchers whose corn and cattle
they sought to take.
Where 1t Is Quiet.
Removal of considerable Carranza
forces from the Sonora border re-
ported in the state department late
today was expected to have a good ef-
feet in allaying apprehension of
Americans in Arizona and New
Mexico.
The state department late today an
nounced receipt Of official dispatches
reporting conditions quiet at Tampi-
co, Vera Cruz, Frontera, Guaymas
and Topolobampo and Exceptionally
good" at Matamoros. Railroad COM
munication from Durango to Torreon
and from Torreon north was reported
subject to interruption and telegraph
ic communication between Froutera
and Vera Cruz was declared ''un-