The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
Officially, interior Of Mexico Is
Fairly Quiet; UnoffIoiaIy,
Country Is Fairly Settling
With AntiAmerican Feeling
CARRANZA COMMANDER
ORDERS PERSHiNG HELD
AmericaH Troops Not Yet In
Touch With Bandit General and
Forces Continue To Pour Over
Border To Help Invasion Along
. Associated Press BY Federal wirolss,.)

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wv AsHINGTON, March ls.-ofi.
w cially, the "interiOr Of Mexico
~ Is fairly quiet" Unoffieially,
the interior Of Mexico is seething with
an,iAmeriean feeling. Dispatches
IRON III Paso and other border towns
tell OF the exodus Of Americans from
the troubled portions Of the southern
Ierublie and the growing tension be.
tween Carranza and the United States
General Gavira, the Carranza officer
commanding the garrison at Juarez,
J'st across the river from Ell Paso, is
reported to have telegraphed TO the
commander of the Carranza troops at
casas Grsndes not to allow the Ameri.
con expedition to occupy that town,
where II was expected about midnight
last night. There was no verifeation
Of this report, unless one excerpts the
confidently increasing show of hostile
feeling in 'Ju~rez and other Mexican
border towns. General Gavira Is the
aurhority and the only authority for
the whereabouts Of the American col.
rmn under General Pershing. Casas
Grandes is sixty miles south of the
\ loundary-line point where the expedi.,
tirnary forces of the United States
ossed on their way after General
Hiis Burns Railway Bridge 81. tr'
War department and state department.
officials declare themselves in the dark
as to the probable tactics which viii be
followed by Villa. Indications are that
be intends TO keep up a cunning fight or
g'terr LA warfare against the Americans
but the adtices to the departments are
thai the pursuing troops have not vet.
conc In touch with any of the rowing
bands of robbers, believed to have been
thrown of from the main forces Of the
fleeing bandit leader in his flight af
ter raiding Columbus, New Mexico.
~ is reported that the only attempt
Villa has made as yet to hamper the
action Of the column under General
Pershing hP" been to burn the railroad
l'"'dRe NJ San Pedro. state Of chihuahua.
This bridge is in direct line Of the pur-
sit, and in the path of the main expe1 H.
tiofary force
The greatest activity is being shown
a. Columbus, according to reports from
that pc mt. General Funston. who has
been moving trOOps to the points along
the border whore the garrison guards
were de"leted to make up the columns
under General Pershing and Colonel
Odt, and has now succeeded in filing
AL III" ga in the line. ia said TO be
pushing fresh troops across the border
in the trail Oe those who started first
The chief object of this last move
nv the American commander is said III
military circles here TO be a desire to
maiBtain the lines of communicationu
with General Pershing. Most Of tn"
troops now crossing the border, and il
t%said that they are moving constantly
day and night, are infantrymen. III
WAS announced at headquarters Of the
expe'litOnary forces at San Antonio, be
fore the columns set out, that foot sol
hinrs would he used to hold open the
lines of communications.
While most of the troops so employed
are mfantrymen, it was announced late
last night that two semisquadrons of
Catahy had been ordered to cross the
border at a point west of Columbus,
but no intention of the purpose of this
move was allowed to leak out at head,
quarters. +. e"
The cost Of the expedition against
Villa was estimated last night ut apAl
prokimatoIy $4,000 i day, ahd II is ex.
pceted that figure will he substantially
increased before the bandit leader Is
captured. w
I Reforts from FL Paso announced
thHt the Americans in Mexico are Wild
With dtEght over the recent develop
F' Rts and are Doing all they can to
Rss ist tho invaders. One stock man Is
raid to have published an offer OF
sbn.0@0 reward for Villa alive or dead. |
Other rewards Of a similar nature but
~ smaller figures are said to have
been made by other business men of
Mexico.
TIE state department announces
tat Consul Silliman, who is in close |
I uch with General Carranza, had
wi"ed Washington that he has re.
ce'""I satisfactory assurances that the !
eBt ance of the Americans into Mexi. !
20 VIII not be opposed by any of the
CtrtanHa forces. Other dispatches re- !
~ n that Carranza troops are cooper
bti'g with General Pershing. Douglas,
A Bora. announces that General Gales
has four hundred men preparing to |
jQ n the march with the Americans. I
tha ~ it"de Of the senate is proving
n'g-t nleosing TO the administration. !,
Tibet b'dy Yesterday adopted without !
II, VI tor a resolution offered by Sen.
htat W Toilette, approving the send
! HI troens 70 capture Villa. and as.
n iog Meyiee that the invasion 2 of
No. oOPatry has for IL sole purpose