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OPPOSITION LIKELY
T0FURTHER MOVE
SOUTH|N MEXICO
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time allowing the situation as TO the At
titude of Carranza garrisons toward the
expedition TO develop Ample supplies for
the expedition have been forwarded from
the border according to official reports.
The War Department has received no con-
frmation of press reports that a SNIP
ment of hay and grain via the Mexican
Northwestern had been seized by Car
rama officials.
Await Gen. SCOTS Report.
Mai Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, chief of
stan Of the army, is on his way to-
day to the border as the personal rep
resentative of Secretary of War Baker
to report on the military problems con-
fronting Gen. Funston. He is accom-
panied by Lieut.. Col. r. E. l.. Niche
of his staff.
Gen. Scott's report. on which the
Washington governments final action
on Gen. Carranza's request that the
American expeditionary forces in Mex
leo be recalled will depend to a great
extent, is not expected under A week
or ten days. Meanwhile no decision
on the question is looked for unless
further outbreaks against the Ameri
can troops demand immediate action.
State Department officials. who for
the past few days devoted their atten-
ton almost wholly to the German Sit
uation, were expected to begin work
today on some of the questions in the
Forthcoming reply to Carranza. These
can be worked out before Gen. SCOTS
report is received.
Due at San Antonio Tomorrow.
Gen Scott is due at San Antonio.
Tex, Gen. Funston's headquarters. to-
morrow night. officials here explain
that Gen. Funston will remain in SUI
preme command Of the border stu
alton and expeditionary forces. and
that the sole object of Gen. SCOTS
mission is to obtain a clearer view OF
the situation than could be gotten in
official reports. Before his departure
last night Gen. Scott said he did not
expect to go into Mexico to observe
the situation, although his orders per-
NIT him to do SO.
Reports from Gen. Funston indicate
that the aviators with Gen. Pershlns
are badly in need of new machines.
Only three of the original equipment
with the troops remain, and these are
said to be in such condition that they
cannot be used for more than single
long flight each before undergoing
thorough overhauling. Four additional
machines will arrive at Columbus next
Saturday, but will not be ready for use
until the following Tuesday. Four
other biplanes will be delivered next
week.
The Mexican embassy has given out
dispatch from Mexico City stating
that Gen. Domingo Arrieta had report
ed to the war Office there, disprovins
rumors published in the United States
that he was not loyal to the de facto
reported death of Villa the message
said:
Says Military Problem Is Solved.
Gen. Alvaro Oregon, minister of
war, made public the purport of con-
ference and confidential statement re-
Gently made by him to DIR. Henry Allen
Upper. In the statement Gen. Obre-
gon asserted that the Mexican military
problem had been solved He said that
there are no more battles to be fought.
Hereafter the only active employment
of the army will be the beating of the
brush and the hunting down of ban
dts and malcontents who oppose the
Redistribution of peace. He predicted
that the few outlaws remaining would
soon be crushed. Gen. Oregon ex-
pressed the hope that he would shortly
of Pancho Villa, and he felt confident
that MeXico's internal and international
difficulties will be ended in very
short time.
Gen. Obregon has wired for the
promptest confirmatory report regard
ing Villas death from the search party.
consisting of two Mexicans and one
American officer. who are returning
from the examination of the bandits
reputed grave. The minister of war ex-
presses full confidence in the aged man
and woman who claim to have nursed
villa in his dying hours and to have
buried him."
The embassy also issued a statement
announcing receipt of dispatch from
Gen. Aguilar foreign secretary at Mex
leo City, denying that Gen. fturbide or
any other person was going to Japan
on a secret or any other kind of mis-
sion for the de facto government. A
report that Iturbide was going to
Japan was circulated in the United
States recently.