The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-24
TROOPS IN MEXICO
Map Shows Disposition of q. S.
and Mexican Forces.
General Pershing's Men Forti-
fled in Strategic Positions.

Ell Paso, June 24.-The accompany
ing map shows the disposition of the
American and Mexican troops along
the border and in the state of Chi
huahua. Wednesdays battle took
place near Carrizal, a town nine miles
southwest of Villa Ahuma da-approx-
imately sixty-five miles from General
Pershing's headquarters at Colonia
Dublan.
General Pershing's troops are strung
out along a 300-mile line of communi-
cations running south from Column
bus, n. M, the border base of the ex-
petition. Bodies of American troops
hold Bocagrande, Colonia Diaz. As
cencion. Corralitos. Colonia Dublan,
Galeana, Ell Vale, Las Cruces and
Namiquipa. Colonia Dublan is the
main expedition base and Namiquipa
the advance base and headquarters of
General Pershing.
General Pershing's forces are in
trenched at all of the stations and
have well protected water supplies
At Coionia Dublan the camp is on the
east bank of the Casas Grandes river
and in addition to extensive en-
trenchmentS with communicating
trenches. the troops have erected per
manent abodes from logs and wicker
reeds and have also provided them
selves with dugouts.
Camps of engineers have been doing
much work on the roads, grades,
bridges, etc. The road is reported in
excellent condition. They have estab-
1shed stations all along the route
from Columbus to Namiquipa- Near
each station is cleared space for
aeroplane landings
Patrols at All Border Towns.
At every American border town
from Nogales, Ariz-, to Ell Paso are
patrols of American troops The
same condition exists southeast from
FL Paso along the Southern Pacifi.
railroad line as far as Del Rio, Tex.
there being American troops, regu-
lars and federalized Texas national
guarlsmen posted at nearly every
railroad station and guarding every
steel structure bridge along the
route.
Specific information as TO the dis
position of Trevino's forces is diff
cult TO obtain, but generally the Mex
Jean troops are stationed as follows:
Starting at Juarez, follow south the
line CT the Mexican National railroad
as far as Chihuahua City, which Is
the main Mexican base for the oper-
atoms around General PershinE's coll
umn, and that place is also The head
quarters of Gen. Jacinto Trevino.
commandment -chief of the de fac:o
governments troops in the north.
Directly east of Ell Vale on the
Mexican Central railroad at Villa
Ahumada, is heavy concentration CT
Mexican troops. This pace commands
and menaces the center of the Ameri-
can line of communications at FL
Vale, just thirty-five miles west Ire
vino has between fourteen and sew
enteen thousand troops at Villa Ahu-
mazda.
Carranzistas Guard r. r. Towns
Also from Juarez to the southwest
along the line of the Mexico North
western railroad, at every other sta
ton there are small garrisons of Car
ranzistas, and at Casas Grandes and
Nueva CaSaS Grandes, where the rail-
road crosses the American line of
operations. There is a Carranza gar
rison at Pearson, and several detach-
ments of unknown strength sectioned
along the southern part of this line as
far south as MADEIRA.
There are Mexican troops at Aqua
Prieta, Sonora, which is opposite
! Douglas, Arizona, and the railroad to
! the south to Nacozari. Carranzas is re-
ported to have between 5000 and
10000 troops stationed along a line
which is approximately on the boun-
dairy line between the Mexican states
of Chihuahua and Sonora. These are
under the command of Gen. Elias
Z Plutarcus Gales.
At Juarez there is a Carranza gar
rison of 1000 troops under command
of Gen. Francisco Gonzales. Recruit
ing and fortifying has been going on
in Juarez. Today's dispatches. how
ever, state that the Juarez garrison is
evacuating.
Gen. George Bell, jr., commands the
American troops across the river at
Ell Paso and Fort Bliss, which num-
her a