Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-26
j. S. CAVALRYMEV
BACK HOME FROM
CHASE OF BANDITS
Kill Four Bandits on Expe-
dition and Return Without
a Casualty and in Good
,-Condition

MARIA, Tex, Aug. 25.-Three
hundred and seventy-five American
cavalrymen, who last Tuesday en-
tered Mexico in pursuit of the ban
dts who held Lieutenants Harold G
Peterson and Paul n. Davis for ran
som, were back on American soil to-
day, following abandonment of the
chase yesterday. The troops today
rssumed patrol of the border.
Heavy rains yesterday, which OBJ
liberated the trails of the bandits,
brought a decision to abandon the
chase after contact had been made
with Carranza troops.
The troops, after riding for hours
in a heavy rainstorm, began at IL
O'Clock to cross the river at Rocky
ford, seven miles from Ruidosa. The
main column was delayed for two
hours because of the storm.
The cavalry slept under roofs last
night for the first time since last
Monday, when the expedition was
formed.
During the six days the American
punitive expedition was below the
border four bandits were killed by
the troops and another by airmen,
while nine bandits are reported to
~Rave been captured at Coyame by
Carranza soldiers. The captured ban
dts are said to have been members
of the Jesus Renteria band which
captured Lieutenants Peterson and
Davis.
Lieutenants George K. Rice and U.
L. Bouquet, American aviators, who
were reported missing below the Rio
Grande yesterday after they had left
Royce field for Mexico to reconnoiter
for the punitive expedition, were To-
Gated last night at Terlinqua, Tex.
They had become lost in the rain
storm and made a forced landing.
Neither flyer was injured.
A report brought to the border by
Lieutenant Peterson that Jesus Rem
terra, leader of the bandits. was
killed by American airmen, could not
be confirmed.
The cavalry troops came out of
Mexico in excellent condition and
without casualties, after five days
of hard riding.
RESUME SEARCH FOR \
TWO MISSING AVIATORS
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 25.--Army
aviators from Rockwell field and
troops from Fort Rosecrans, re-
suned today the search for Lieu
tenants Cecil Connolly and Fred
erick Waterhouse, army aviators
detailed to Mexican border patrol
duty, who have been missing since
last Wednesday, with orders to find
them, dead or alive.
The aviators were expected to de-
vote their attention to the stretch
of broken and chaparrel-covered des-
ert lying between Campo, in east
ern San Diego county and San
Felipe, near the head of the Gulf
of California, between which points
an American, employed at a mine
forty miles south of Campo, re-
ported he had seen an airplane in
flight Wednesday.
Two detachments of troops, car
rying complete field equipment and
six days rations, have been ordered
10 prosecute the search southwark
from the border. A third detach
ment under command of Captain G.
o. Crank, medical corps, equipped
with motor trucks and carrying gas
.oline and food for twenty-one days,
proceeded yesterday southwark by
way of Tia Juana, lower Califor
MIA Captain Crank said he would
continue 200 miles south of Tia
Juana and sixty miles inland from
the Gulf of California where he
would camp.
BELIEVES RENTERIA HAS
lBEEN KILLED FROM PLANE
MARIA, Tex, Aug. 25.-Major
James P. Yancey, commander of
the American punitive expedition,
told the Associated Press over
the ARM field telephone at Ruidosa
today that he considered the report
authentic that Jesus enteria, bandit
leader, had been shot and killed
from an American airplane last
Tuesday.