Arizona republican., 1919-07-03
VILLA ORDERS REPR|SALSFOR
 JUAREZ ATTACK
Bandit Leader Tells Men to Hang All Americans Encountered, Minus the Usual Formalities, Says English Refugee from the Mexican Interior
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

El4 PASO, Texas. July - FanClSto Villa. enraged because American troops drove him from Juarez, ordered his rebels to hang every American they caught. sent a detachment to Viiia Ahumada to hang two Ameri cans believed to have been there and finding them gone, threatened to kill his brother, Hipolito Villa, who was sick at Villa Ahumada, Donald B. Best declared today after his arrival from Mexico Best, a British subject, owns a large store at Villa Ahumada.
 With A. M Penney. an American. 1 left Villa Ahumada June l3, for the border after Villa had footed my store and home Mir. Best said. T returned to Villa Ahumada June 21, after Villa left there for San Lorenzo and was told by my native storekeeper, the mu- nicipal presidente. Manuel Ortego, and a number of townspeople that Villa sent q guard to kill Penney and I, and later rode to my house in person ap- tparently for the same purpose. He ordered my Mexican storekeeper to stop working for me. thinking 1 was an American, and threatened to kill him if he continued in my employ. He said he then was going to hang all the Americans he caught and was ! t0OkllS IDE slIlt 10 UldhE tIlc III St ample of this policy.
 i Villa also told the storekeeper that | Penney and I knew the Americans in l tended firing on his troops and left l for the border to escape. This seemed
 to anger him all the more. Then on June r. the same day. he ordered all l his chiefs to kill Americans as soon as captured, not to bring them before
 him but to hang them to the nearest
 telegraph pole"
 Besa said Hipolito Villa was seri
 ously i'll in the Best home in Villa
 Ahumada when Villa threatened him
 and the leaders brother was forced
 to leave in a small cart for the Ojinaga
 district to save his life. Villa and his
 band footed the Best store of 1000 pesos in cash and 5000 pesos worth Of ' goods and also robbed his residence,
 he said. The Villa rebels footed the
 Erupcion mine and warehouse, carry
 ing off everything portable and smash
 ing valuable assay scales. The mine
 is near Villa Ahumada, owned by
 Americans.
 The British merchant gave the first
 details of a break between Villa ana
 Martin Lopez as related by Mexieans
 who said they were present.
 ift'A men. ldSS6u- MlAuOul dlAl-
 munition and sullen after retiring be
 fore the Americans at Juare, held s meeting at Villa Ahumada, a friendly
 Mexican told me-" Best said "They voted to depose Villa in favor of An ; seles, who then was at Samalayucs < tearing up the railroad to preven I American troops from pursuing then , south, Villa Ahumada officials told me {. Next day, General Cuiroga, with .
 federal force-2000 Yaqui Indians anI
 other trocps-arrived at Ajo Caliente having come from the south. Vills i sent Martin Lopez 10 engage then Ii south of Villa Ahumada- Lopez wa
 defeated. Villa withdrew from thu f town the natives said, reorga nized hi = Gemoralized forces, which hat 2 dwindlad from 1000 to 400 by deaths n wounds and assertions. and sen t Lopez against the Yaquis a secon, n time. Defeated again Villa retired t' 1 the Santo Domingo ranch leaving hi ' wounded behind. There Lopez de Il nouncad Villa, according to the state
 ments Of witnesses
 n Lopez pulled his pistol. covere l Villa and called him liar said |, Mexican who was present. Bes Il stated.
 . j. cause Villa had made speech to hi 1T men before attacking Juarez, tellin
 them the Americans were friends c d himself and Angeles. that the Ameri a, can Red Cross would care for thei e wounded and everything would q fine for them after they had take > the Juarez port. Lopez announced h 1f was through with Villa, cursed hir
 and said he was going to look ou g for himself in the future and woul n have nothing more to do with Villi le Villa sent fer Angeles at Samala ic yuca but left for San Lorenzo de Cat n men before we heard whether Angel: m ached Villas camp. Villa als q threatened to burn the ranch building Id at Santo Domingo but Lopez stoppe n him, MeXicans told me-
 ts FL PASO. Texas, July 2. - Will
 considers the United States goverr to ment and not the American peop ie is opposed to him and has sent a coui Qi fer to the border and to his con 9h mands in all parts of the republic l'l notify them of this a Villa agent he ld announced tonight.
 -si Villas belief, based on what local Vii l partisans assert was the sending ~ transformation sent to WashingtC ~ ~ regarding the responsibility for firiI ss into Fl Paso during the battle
 - Juarez. Villa had letters from Amer e cans disayowing the action of the mil
 tary in crossing into Mexico, the Vii
 agent added, which had convince
 Villa the American people were n
 opposed to him. The Villa agent q - nied Villa intended to kill American [ calling attention to the fact that mo
 than two weeks had passed sin h. American troops had dispersed VilIs 1s forces with no reprisals having be n3 eXacted.