New Britain herald., 1916-03-18

Villa Believed to Have Sought Re
 in Wild and Inaccessible Regi4
 Refugees Anticipate Trouble "
 First Clash With Bandits is
 nounced-Guerrilla Warfare By
 attached Outlaws Anticipated.
 IIl Paso, Tex, March 1S.-The ond crisis in the international si ton created when American trE crossed the Mexican border wasM lieved to have been reached tN with the arrival of the advance cH of the eXpeditionary force at Grandes.
 If the speed of thirty miles a at which the column has moved maintained the American solN should be in Villa territory bf nightfal. Casas Grandes is twenty miles from the border of the didX of Guerrero, the bandit chiefs nM heath. There has been no reliablu port as to the exact Whereabou8 Villa, but it is considered fairly tain that he has taken refuge inA fastnesses of the Sierra Madres, ol2 the widest and most inaccessibl gions in all Mexico. The people, Guerrero are said to be fanaticalN lowers of the fugitive and he can on them for food, recruits and irE nation as to the movements ofe pursuers. The task of the LII States force will have really b& when they reach the foothills of Sierras.
 Mormon Colony Now Safe.
 The arrival of the expeditioE troops in the vicinity of Casas GraI was greeted along the border wiN sigh of relief in so far as the fat the 800 American Mormons at Col Dublan and Colonia Morales is l. ccrned The soldiers are, already s& of these settlements and conseque all fears for the safety of the colo have been removed.
 w IlllG lllC GADCuIllOl EdS UIW peacefully thus far into Mexico the Carranza officials have sh every indication of both their will ness and ability to avoid friction, tension along the Rio Grande hal no means relaxed It is felt that the real test will come fighing with the Villista bandits al ally starts The lengthening line communication of the American is pointed out offer tempting bait raids by guerrillas. The refugees throng the border towns are espeI ly insistent that the first bloods will be the signal for serious trot
 Fl Paso Free From Crime.
 However, thus far the borden very peaceful. Captain W. D. Cd the night chief of police of Fl Fl stated today that he had never kn the city to be so quiet and free f crime.
 American cavalrymen purs& Francisco Villa were camped at d today at COlonia Dublan, one of cnvirons of Casas Grandes TheyN rived in the night. Through Col Dublan runs the road to the Gala district, twenty-five miles SO east, where Villa was last det1ni reported
 The news of the encampment Colonia Dublan dispelled fears of disputes with cOnStitutionalist thOrities over what position troops should occupy Casas Grandes.
 Mormon scouts dashed into Col Dublan last night with the news the Americans were near. column which was first into this l,ortant American settlement, was. to be the cavalry from Hachita,
 Francisco Villa is in the neighE hood of Las Cruces, 110 miles sd )f Casas Grandes, according to int nation received today by Gen& Gabriel Gavira, Carranza comman 1t JuareZ.
 General Gavira, Carranza cd Nander at Juarez, in a stateni given today to The Associated Pi declared that the crisis in the II ions between the United States HeXico is past and that there is urther need to fear trouble.