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agreed to Withdraw the American troops
as soon as he could get them together.
General Gonzales then asked the Amer
lean border commander If he could not
have the infantry withdraw by 10 30
a. m, which request was granted and
orders were given by General Cabell
for the immediate withdrawal of the
colored infantry then in Juarez.
General Gonzales also requested Cen
eral Cabell to make it known through
the Associated Press to the people of
the United States that he, General
Gonzales. had not requested assistance
from the United States in handling the
situation.
No Idea Of Invasion
81 told General Gonzales that there
was no idea of invading Mexican
sovereignty and that the infantry would
withdraw as soon as possible General
Cabell announced following the inter
view.
Upon his return to military head
quarters here this morning, General
Cabell announced that he had ordered
one battalion of four mountain cannon
to Ell Paso from Camp Stanley, Tex.
for the use of the American artillery
commander at Fort Bliss, should these
mountain guns be needed against the
Villa forces. He also confirmed the
ordering of six companies of the Nine
teenth Infantry from Douglas, Ariz., to
.ElfPaso. They are scheduled to arrive
today.
T.L Ill nlG r.
fcially that United States cavalry were
engaged with Villa rebels beyond
Juarez this morning.
The defeat of the Mexican rebel
forces at the Juarez race track occurred
before 2 o'clock this morning.
The Villa troops soon were driven
from Juarez by United States infantry
men and fed toward Guadalupe, op-
posite Fabens, Tex, with United States
cavalry in close pursuit.
Capture Many Prisoners
Villas troops were driven from the
racetrack by rife and machine gun fire
after the border was crossed, and many
prisoners were reported taken by the
United States cavalry, which took up
positions on the east and southeast
of the track.
More than 200 Villa rebels were killed
during engagements with the federals
and Americans last night and TODAY,
and more than seventy We're wounded
One American is known to have been
killed and several wounded.
The Mexican rebels and federal troops
fought in the streets of Juarez SATURDAY
night and Sunday night, many on both
< sides being killed. Many bullets from
the rebel guns came across the Rio
Grande, and two persons were killed
and seven wounded on the American
side.
When the Mexican bullets becam,
too thick for the safety of citizens o.
FL Paso, Brigadier General J. B. Er.
win, at IL O'Clock last night, ordered
American troops to cross the border
and ten minutes after the order wa,
issued. 5000 United States soldiers wer,
In Mexico
Cross Open Plain
After the Mexican federals were al
lowed to retire into the town o
Juarez Colonel Hadsell's coIored in
fantry (the Twenty fourth) opened III
with terrific rifle fire on the trenche
Ranking the racetrack. They advances
in open order and succeeded in dis
lodging the Villa forces who held tn
strongest positions, as the colored troop
we're forced to advance across CON
paratively open PLAIN.
An American army officer who mad
ar Inspection trip from the intcrna
tional bridge TO the racetrack south
cast of Juarez reported seeing the bodie
Of thirty Villa dead. He believed man
had been killed with shrapnel bullet
fired from the American artillery.
Villa Troops Trapped
Ehe first volleys from the rifleme
were answered shot for shot. by tn
Villa troops. who seemed to realize the
trapped by the cavalry in the rea
and the infantry in front.
American machine guns started sput
tering from adobe houses near the rae
track, and the preponderance of riff
fire was soon with the American force
The preliminary artillery preparatio
having been completed, the shrapn,
! eitns became silent as the rifles too
t,p the work. The explosion of Maust
aud American cartridges could /
plainiy distinguished from militar
htadguarters in the Mills Building
III Paso. where General Erwin was a
Interested spectator from his tenth stor
window.
Al the Ancriean cavalry maneuvere
over the 3uarez plain their position
vere marked BY green rocket flares an
<s.byc answered by similar star shell