New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-20
Hatred of "Gringoes' Be
ing Famed Into Flame
bv Carranza Troops.
CAMP NEAR PARRAL
READY FOR ATTACK
Army Men Expect War May Be
Result of Treachery OF
the Garrison.
Re pORFRT DUNN.

Nv aeroplane 10 Namiqu'pa' Apr" 20
bv wireless to Columbus, \. M'
April 49,
With General Pershing at the Front
cear Parral. April 18.-Over this camp
q cavalry, concentrated at the extreme
front in Mexico, there hangs an oml"-
ous tensencss. Apparently inert an"
restinr. the troops nevertheless VIZ
,,aIlv have been barricaded against an
oxneeted attack by Carranzistas ana
civilians with a possible admiNture Of
vllistas
smarting from the forced retreat
from parral. the men Of the 18th Cav
.Irv and the negroes Of the 10TH who
enforced Major Tompkins during his
ro,irement-a retirement chosen IN
difference TO orders when the Amer
cans easily could have taken the role
Of pursuers at any time-are itchlhs
for a chance TO square accounts WIN
the hostile Carranzistas and the VIVA
svmpathizers concerned in the a''ac"
Of last week.
Soldiers Expect War.
Here az the front sentiment is unsh'-
nous that war with Mexico impends as
result of the Parral incident. There
Is according 20 military authorities
here. only one loophole Of dubious
worth. and that is an immediate DIS
avowal on the part Of General Carranza
Of the acts of the men Of the Faris.
garrison and Of Lazano, the commander
there. This, it is believed. Carrahza
will not dare to give because OF me III
tense anti-American feeling winch re-
ports to General Pershlng snow mas
swept over the whole OF Chlhuahua'
and doubtless over all OF NorlheI"
Mexico.
II is believed that Carranza's own in
stability will force him rather to iorce
a war with the United States than 10
risk internal dissension by disavowal OF
the Parral incident. distorted versions
Of which have been accepted as facts
by Mexican poems.
That the battle was the result OF the
.reacherv Of General Lazano IS care
fully kept from public circulation. the
peons being told the Americans sought
10 capture Parral. attacking women
and children as we'll as men. and were
terribly defeated by the garrison.
Proof that the battle was an organ
lied action on the part OF the Carraiza
garrison seems indisputable. one
forceful fact is that Of the thirty
eight Mexican dead left in the streets
and along the line Of retreat only one.
was a civilian. The rest were Car
rama soldiers.
Cavalrymen engaged in this fight
point out that the fact that only elgnt
men fought for fifteen miles a rear
ruard action against 800 Csrranzlstas
aided by a few armed citizens is proof
enough that the cavalrymen could have
routed the pursuers at any moment
thew wished and taken Parral, IL nee
essary.
Villa Chase at Standstill.
Offensive activities Of the campaign
are at a standstill pending instructions
from Washington as 70 the ParTal IN
cident. The capture Of Villa has be
come secondary in the Mexican situa-
ton. His bands have disappeared INTO
the Durango country, where villa nm
self probably now Is.
Reports OF the bandit chiefs death
and of the finding of his body near san
Francisco Borja have reached here, but
are generally discredited.
Hostility Of the pOpulace 20 the
Americans has been manifest recently
in the cutting of telegraph wires.