Republican farmer., 1919-08-01
NO ARMS CAN GO TO MEXICO
 FROM U. s.
President Renews Embargo on Shipments Across the
 Border.
NO VIOLATION OF ORDER MUST BE
 COUNTENANCED
Villa Ready to Attack I'm portant City, Washing
 ton Hears.

| Washington, July 26.---Activities of
 Mexican rebels again have brought an embargo on the shipment of arms and munitions across the border from the | United States. The State Department | male public yesterday a proclamation by President Wilson forbidding the shipment of arms and munitions into
 Mexico. and instructing all officers of
 the Government. civil and military, to ] see that the order is not violated. ! The proclamation is based on a | joint resolution or Congress passed
 March 14, 1912, and the law of June.
 1917, empowering the President to de- ! ternine the necessity for such action
 and to stop the shipments. In the
 proclamation the President says: | T have found that there exist in
 Mexico such conditions of domestic
 violence promoted by the use of arms
 or munitions of war procured from 1 the United States as contemplated by
 the joint resolution
 The proclamation delegates to the
 Secretary of State the power of pre-
 scrfbing exceptions and limitations to
 the application of the law as provid ed | Information received here from | Chihuahua City gives additional de- | tails of the activities of Villa and Gen. 1 Filipe Angeles, with a hint of their 1 future plans. Nothing tends to con- ! firm the announcement recently made 1 by the Mexican Elm bassy here that the Villa forces had been dispersed. 1 Acting on Villas regular campaign l tactics. the Villistas, after they were | driven out of Juarez by American 1 troops, retired southwest.a and at a con- ference in the desert Villa and Angeles
 decided to employ their forces at points distant from the border. The | Villa forces were then scattered in or 1 der 70 obtain subsistence without in l fiicting hardship upon the popu1a- ! ton.
 ] While Villa has only about 5000
 men under arms in squads in various parts of the State of Chihuahua, an ] other 5000 at least are devoting them ! selves to their home industries and awaiting the call to arms. It is said ! these achievements will assemble i'm , n1ediately upon notification from 1 Villa. The scattering of his forces is l declared to be part of the Villa l plan to separate, only to be reunited | for an attack.
 | His plans for the next attack are
 not given, but it is admitted that plans | have been made. and it is intimated | that within two weeks 1t will be
 known that the Vinistas have attacke ed
 an important city in the south of Chi
 huahua or the north of Durango. l The Navy Department received | from Commander Ffnney, U. S. N. | at Tampico yesterday the following
 regarding the robbery of the sailors | from the U. s. s. Cheyenne:
 l Gen. Gonzales, Mexican military | commander at Tampico, has just | given information that the rob | bery was committed, he believes, by | an isolated group of brigand bands of i swampy lands adjoining the Temesi River, near Tampico, under the ] leadership of a chef named Aguilar. l Gen. Gonzales has pursued this | band ever since the robbery with some success. He has returned a number of horses and mules they had
 stolen from Americans. but he states | his operations against the bandits | are carried oI, under the great disad- l vantage of guerilla warfare in a | swamp that the river frequently 1 overfiows. He Is securing assistance
 from the army post in the State of
 TamaHpas and will continue his eff | forts until the band Is captured or | dispersed.
 The President of Mexico has is- ! sued special instructions, he inform | ed me, to put forth every effort to ! apprehend those guilty of the rob | bery. and to increase the guarantees | of protection for the lives and prop | erty of Americans in this section. The
 attitude of Gen. Gonzales is very con- | cilfatory"