Arizona republican., 1919-06-17

FL PASO, Texas. June 1e-All Amer iean troops which crossed to the Mex ican side at Il o'clock last night re- turned to the American side this morn ing, a report received at military head quarters stated. The cavalry brigade and artillery crossed near Ysleta. Tex as, F miles southeast of here about the same time, shortly after 1 o'clock,
 American cavalry forces returned from Mexico with one hundred Villa cavalry horses and nine prisoners cap tured in the pursuit of Villa s forces. The commanding officers reported tna1 four Villa followers were killed when the adobe headquarters was charged. From that time. on it was a running fight with the Villa band across the plains. An adobe shack was also found to contain five Carranza soldiers. dead from wounds, and eight wounded. American troops that participated in the punitive expedition against the Villa rebels in and near JuareZ last night and today, were billeted in bar racks and camps on the American side tonight and were asleep before dark, after their 24 hours of preparation and execution.
 Bring Seven Prisoners
  tillery and engineers columns. which wound over the Mesa from the river | late today, seven ragged. nigh-hatted | Mexican prisoners were headed towarl the Fort Bliss stockade by a detach- ment of the fifth cavalry while anoth CT cavalry detachment drove a herd of 10G Mexican horses and ponies cap tured from the Villa forces, to the re- mount station.
 While no official report of the cav airy operations has yet been prepared for Brig. Gen. James B. Erwin and Ma jor General Cabell, it was unofficially stated tonight at Fort Bliss that ap- proximately fifty Villa followers were killed and taken prisoners, and thei' horses and mules captured.
 The American casualties consisted of one seventh cavalryman, Corporal Chi gas, having been shot through the lung by Mexican rebel on the south bank of the river, and one cavalry horse killed and another wounded in the knee.
 After crossing during the night, the cavalry column, supported by battal ion of the Sand artillery, advanced and. at daybreak, started scouting over the low, marshy fields in the elbow of the Rio Grande south of Ysleta. Texas.
 
 reaching the Villa camp. the cavalry was enabled to proceed, dismounted, to within a short distance of the adobe headquarters, when firing was begun by the Americans standing in water up to their knees, according to cavalry of ficers. Four Villa men were killed in the first assault and the entire force numbering approximately 200 men mounted and escaped toward the south west with the cavalry troops in pursuit . Crossing the plains and reaching the mesa land. the rebels scattered into small bands and Colonel James J HCrnbrooks fifth cavalry pursued one band, which continued toward tn. southwest and was pursued for a dis tance of 5 miles, before returning to ward the river
 Hickock, In Pursuit In the meantime, Colonel Tompkins seventh cavalry horse, in temporary command of Colonel Howard R. Hik- eek, deployed to the southeast and pur. sued another band of the Villa men During this pursuit, troops A and c O the seventh cavalry executed a mounted pistol charge from the saddle and killed a number of the rebels. In the mean. , time, the artillery placed shrapne shells directly over the heads of tn, : fleeing Villa force and many wer, killed then. After the two cavaIr, forces had pursued the rebels ovei more than 30 square miles, they formed a junction and returned to the Ameri can side of the river, accompanied b, the artillery and eighth engineers, wh, threw a pontoon bridge across tn, river
 The cavalry. artillery and engineer presented a tired, soiled and travel stained appearance when they marche, over the mesa to Fort Bliss tonigh,