The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-08-20
BANDITS BEING CHASED
BY AMERICAN TROOPS
Swift Cavalry After Mexicans Who
Held Aviators
INAUGURATES NEW PLAN
From Now on BOrde rRaids to BE
Handled Without Gloves,
Officials Say

Washington, Aug. 19.-No official
announcements are being made Of how
to handle the bandit nuisance in
Northern Mexico from this point on,
but there is every evidence that all
preparations have been made to meet
future depredations with a swift
movement of troops such as is now
being conducted against the despera-
does who held the two army aviators
for ransom.
Swift moving cavaIry, Tully equipp-
ed with machine guns and guided by
airplanes, it is understood, will be re-
lied upon, and will be prepared to
move qunickly from strategic points
along the border of the bandit coun-
try on the Rio Grande.
Organization of the border guard
to insure the greatest speed in these
movements has been completed, the
cavalry regiments being so distributed
as to place the nucleus of flying
column at carefully selected points
along the Rio Grande.
Without Gloves.
Movement Of trops Of the Eighth
Cavalry into Mexico today inaugural
ed the new plan, according to officials,
and from this time incidents will be
handled without gloves"
In announcing that Maj. Gen. Joseph
II. Dickman, commanding the South
ern Department, had acted on instruc-
tions from the War Department, Sec
retary Baker intimated that only the
danger in which the two officers were
placed prevented an attempt to rescue
then: by force.
when the reports came of the cap
ture of these two officers and their
being held for ransom" Secretary
Baker said, "the hour of execution
was fixed on the next day in default
of the ransom being paid. There was,
of course, no opportunity to make a
military rescue within such time and
therefore directed that the ransom
money be paid and that force be
arranged to take up the hot trail of
the bandits and pursue them with
the hope Of being able to capture as
many as possible"
Left to Dickmen.
Details Of how the dash was to be
conducted were left entirely to Gen.
Dickman, the only requirement being
that it should be made with swift
ly moving force" Cavalry with ma
chine guns and guided by airplanes
would be used. If captives were taken
they will be brought to the United
States.
The close proximity of the bandit
rendezvous to the United States to
rendezvous to the border led to the
hope that the American troops might
overtake them before they would
have time to scatter.
Reports to the State Department
today from the American consul at
Ell Paso said that late last week Gen.
Diequez, Mexican! !comamndant at Chi
huahua City had ordered Mexican cav
airy patrols out through the country
where the American soldiers were
held, but there was no indication
whether these patrols were still op-
Grating.
Mexico's Promises.
The department was also advised by
the American embassy at Mexico City
that when it made representations re-
garding the capture of the aviators
the Mexican foreign office promises
to see that every possible step was
taken to assist in the rescue of the
men.
Dispatches to the department from
Chihuahua sad the governor of that
Mexican State, with the approval of
President Carranza, had offered re-
ward Of $4,000 peGoes for the capture
of Francisco Villa. Two colonels and
three captains Of the Villista forces
captured by the federals were said
to have been convicted Of treason Sun
day by military conrtmartial and
executed by a firing squad yesterday
The Mexican situation was given
further attention in Congress today
Representative LaGuardia, Republican
New York, introduced resolution de.
manding that Secretary Lansing make
a complete report to Congress on the