Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-07
De Facto Government Con.
centrating Thousands
Near Chihuahua.
AMERICANS PUSH ON
With Escape Cut Off to Out
law the Troopers Are
Rushing Him.

Washington, April T.
Another engagement be.
tween Carranza troops and
Villa bandits took place
April 4 at Cianeguilla. Ter
of the bandits were killed
This information was re.
ceived at the war department;
today.
General Pershing's camp at San
Geronimo ranch, chihuahua, April
3, (by aerOplane and motor c0ur-
Ter to Columbus, n. NJ, April T.
A good sized portion of the BAN
dts with whom Villa raided Co.
lumbus, n. NJ. March 8, already
have been accounted for by the ex.
peditiOnary force. At least 46 of
them and probably so or 60 were
killed in the Guerrero fight. About
two dozen others wounded were
left behind by Villa in his flight
and some others have deserted.
This means about 100 accounted
for.
I'm addition about $50 others
we're scattered over the mountains
of this section by the fight at
Guerrero.
San Antonio, Texas, April -
General Bell reported that infor-
nation from Mexican sources in.
dictated that some thousands of
the de factO government troops
were being moved south of Chi
huahua with the OstensibIe pur-
pose of checking the retreat Of
Villa.
Francisco Villa was at Ciene-
guillas, 10 miles south of SateyO
on April 4, according to General
Luis Gutierrez, commanding the
Carranza troops i'm Chihuahua.
General Bell received this infOr-
nation from Chihuahua and
transmitted it TO General Fun
stOn today. American cavalry
are pushing forward along the
trails to and beyond Satey0.
Gutierrez reported that Carranza
troops engaged so Villa men at Ciene-
guillas, killed 10 and captured two
The prisoners said Villa had left there
early in the morning with 200 men
leaving the so as rear guard.
Another column of American cav
airy arrived at Cusihuirachic TO sup
port that of Colonel w. c. Brown
who reported there April 4, according
to reports at General Funston's head
quarters today. Colonel Brown ex-
planned his delay in rendering a re
port after the engagement few days
ago at Aguas Calientes, near Bachi
neva, by saying he and his forces hat
exhausted their money and he hat
none to pay the expense of getting 4;
message to a commercial wire.
FL Paso, Texas, April 7.-Advanc
guards of the American expeditio,
hunting Pancho Villa are operating
today near Satevo and news that Col
onel D0dd's cavalry has again com
into contact with the Villistas is eS
pected. The region between Satev
and Parral, where Villa is reporte
to be heading, is infested with nun
erous bands of Villa brigands.
American refugees from the BENT
Juarez district say that if VIII
should succeed in uniting these band
of marauders, he would have an e
fective army of at least 1000 men an
would be in position TO give the az
vance American troops a hard battl
The last official information fro
the front showed that American ca
airy had penetrated south Of San Al
tonic and was still moving southwar
hard on the trail of the Nillistas.
is believed that more frequent r
ports will now be obtained from Co
onel Dodd inasmuch as 1t is now pc
sible for him TO relay his messag,
by courier to Chihuahua and theni
by Mexican telegraph lines TO
Paso for retransmission to Gener
Funston at San Antonio.
Two Americans the first TO arri,
from the interior for several day
reached FL Paso today on ira
from Chihuahua City. They said tn
there was absolute quiet In the sta
capital when they left.
As has been the case for a week nc
the whole Mexican situation seems
standstill pending the outcome of t