Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-24
AMERICAN TROOPS
OUT OF MEXICO
tanks Return to United States
Soil After Utter Rout
of Villa.
TAKE 100 HORSES IN DASH
General Cabell Assures the Mexican
Federal Commander. at Juarez
There Was No Idea of Violat-
irg Mexican Sovereignty.

Ell Paso, Tex, June 1S.-All Ameri-
can troops which crossed to the Next
can side at eleven O'Clock Sunday
night have returned to the American
side, report received at military
headquarters stated.
The cavalry brigade and artillery
crossed near Ysleta, Tex, II miles
southeast of here.
The infantry troops started with
drawing from Juarez to Ell Paso in
obedience to orders by Maj. Gen. De
Rosey c. Cabell, commander of the
Southern department, who arrived
from San Antonio and crossed the in
ternational bridge for a conference
with Gen. Francisco Gonzales, SUI
preme commander of the Juarez
troops, after comforting with Brig.
Gen. James B. Erwin, commander of
the FL Paso border district and the
eXpeditionary force which crossed into
Mexico.
AT the conference with General Con
zales, General Cabell agreed to with
draw the American troops as soon as
they could get them together.
General Gonzales then asked the
American border commander If he
could not have the infantry withdrawn
by 1920 a. M. which request was
granted.
General Gonzales also requested
General Cabell TO make it known
through the press to the people of the
United States that he, General Con-
zales, had not requested assistance
from the United States in handling
the situation.
81 told General Gonzales that there
was no idea of invading Mexican SOW
ereignty and that the infantry would
withdraw as soon as possible" Gen
eral Cabell announced, following the
interview.
At 10:45 a. m. the Twenty-fourth
infantry started marching across the
international bridge from JuareZ and
by eleven o'clock the entire command
was back on American soil, after hav-
ing spent exactly eleven hours on Mex
lean soil.
American cavalry forces returned
from Mexico with 100 Villa cavalry
horses and nine prisoners. The COM
handing officers reported four Villa
followers were killed when the adobe
headquarters was charged.
Mayor Charles Davis issued a state
ment saying he regretted the expedi-
ton to Juarez Sunday night because
of the bad effect it would have upon
the situation in Mexico, where Ameri-
cans owned large interests in districts
frequented by Villa.
Ell Paso, Tex, June 17-American
troops and Mexican rebels under
Villa fought a general engagement at
the race track to the south of Juarez
shortly after two O'Clock Monday
morning. The Americans were VIC
torious. Villas rebels were driven
from the race track by the American
rife and machine-gun fire. Many pris-
oners were taken by the American cav
airy, which surrounded the rebels on
the east and southeast, according to
an official announcement issued by the
army headquarters here.
At 2 :05 in the morning Colonel Had
sells troops opened the general en-
gagement with artillery fire against
the Villistas in the old federal
trenches to the east and southeast of
Juarez.
One American soldier is known to
have been killed thus far in the fight
ing. He was a gunner in the Eighty
second artillery. He was struck by
bullet sent by a Mexican sniper.
Immediately after this Brig. Gen. J.
B. Erwin ordered % American sharp
shooters to return the fire and drive
out the Mexican snipers.
1t was shortly after this that the
American artillery opened.
The decision of the Americans to
take part in the fighting was the re-
suit of the killing of a man and a
woman in Ell Paso by shots from the
rebel forces, who for several days
have been attempting to capture
Juarez from the Carranzistas.
Others shots have fallen into FL
Paso and the American army officers
decided to move into Mexican soil to
stop 1t.
The intervention of the Americans
in the battle followed a day of sue
cess for Villa. Martin Lopez, his
chief lieutenant, was inside the city
soon after six o'clock, leading his
men in desperate house-to-house fight
ing.