The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-08-22
VOLUME xxxVIII
wEXICANS CONTINUE DEVILTRY
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
PURSUING.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Mexi-
can border raids and depredations by
bandits directly across the border,
evidence from official sources show
cd will in the future bring trouble
uuon the United States.
The present punitive expedition, led
hv Major General Joseph T. Dickman,
commander of the Southern depart
mont il was learned, constitutes the
first working out of the new policy,
which one official characterized as
handling the border nuisance with
out gloves"
The border guard, 1T was said, was
equipped admirably for such work
with swift, moving cavalry, machine
gun sections and airplanes stationed
at detachment points along the Rio
Grande.
Interest in the search of the Eighth
Cavalry which crossed the border
Tuesday for the bandits who held
Lieutenants H. G. Peterson and Paul
N. Davis, for ransom, continued in
tense at the War Department.
Possibility that the American SOL
diers already have had the first
skirmish with the bandits was ind1-
Gated Tuesday night when two avia-
TORS returned to the American side
with bullet holes in the plane of
their machine and report that they
had been attacked by three Next
killed with machine bullets. Another
was believed to have been wounded
and the third put to flight.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Mexi-
can Ambassador Bonillas has been
urged by the Mexican Consul at
Preside, Texas, to obtain from the
War Department an order for with
drawal of the American forces now
In Mexico. The Consurs telegram,
made public at the Embassy SAID
that since Mexican Federal troops
were in pursuit of the bandits which
held two American aviators for ran
som. withdrawal of the American
troeps would 'avoid difficulties.
MARIA, TEXAS, August 21.-Ten
American observation airplanes with
machine guns mounted are leading
the four troops of the Eighth Cavalry
across the border from Candelaria,
Texas, in pursuit OF the Mexican
bandits who captured Lieutenants
Peterson and Davis, army aviators,
Coz
Four planes went with the cavalry
when the troops crossed the line,
four more were sent from Ell Paso
and two from McAllen.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-An-
other case of the kidnapping of an
American citizen by Mexican ban
dts who demanded ransom was an
nounced by the State Department.
He was a Porto Rican doctor, who
was taken prisoner July %. The
ransom was to have been paid
August Is, but the department has
not been advised whether he had
been released.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALF, Aug.
a1.-Mrs. Adele S. De Niemeyer, VINO
arrived on the steamer Newport,
declared that her husband, who she
said was Mexican mining engineer,
and several other engineers were
killed by Mexican bandits on
train near Salina Cruz.
Mrs. De Niemeyer, who SAID she
was an American, declared the pan
dts stripped the women and chlldren
of money and jewels before killing
the men.
Captain C. ]. Holland, master OF
the Newport, said Mrs. De Niemyers
story was confirmed by the agent or
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
at Salina Cruz. Captain Holland
said he did not know the number OF
men killed.
MARIA, Tex, Aug. 21.-Captaln
Leonard Matlack, of the Sth Cavalry,
has captured two Mexicans belleVeo
to have been implicated in the capt
ure of aviators Peterson and DAVIS.
This information was brought 10 the
border by an American cavalry SER
geant and a guard of enlisted men
q who returned to the Rio Grande TO-
night