Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-01
MEX|CANS DECLINE
 TO FREE AMERICAN
 AVIATION OFFICERS
Will Learn Reason Why They Landed On Mexican
 Soil
CHANGE IN PLANS AT
 LAST MINUTE SURPRISES
Nuevo Leon Governor Orders Amer jeans Taken From Civil Au- thorities and Sent Back to Monterey for Military
 Inquiry

Inquiry
 Laredo, Tex, Jan. 31.--Lieuts. E.. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes, United States army aviators, who made a forced landing near Guerrero, Mexi- co. Wednesday,, because of an ex- hausted supply of gasoline. tonight are on their way to Monterey, Mexi- co, under military escort. They are due to reach Nuevo Laredo, opposite this city, about midnight and to- morrow morning will take train for Monterey, where they are to be examined by Mexican military au- thorities "as to their reasons for landing on Mexican soil"
 Disruption of plans for the return of Grimes and Davis to American soil came suddenly late today in instruc- tions from Governor Gonzales of the state of Nuevo Leon, ordering local civil authorities, who had pre- turn to the United States. The gov- brought to Monterey immediately for. r."examination."
 Randolph Robertson, American word of Gonzales action in a tele- consul at Nuevo Laredo, who sent phone message from Guerrero, said he was accompanying the flyers to Nuevo Laredo. The party is travel ing tonight by automobile on the Mexican side of the border, under es- cort of a number of Carranza off cers, he said. Consul Robertson, who went to Guerrero Thursday to aid the return of the aviators, gave no further details concerning Gov ernor Gonzales order beyond the statement that the flyers were to be interrogated by General Francisco Murguia of the Carranza army.
 Lieutenants Davis and Grimes while or a flight Wednesday, morn ing in Zapata county, Tex, became confused in a fog, and instead of pro- ceeding along the Rio Grande, fol lowed the River Solado 30 miles within Mexican territory. Here they were forced to land because their fuel was exhausted. Since Wednesday they had been staying al a hotel in Guerrero, under surveil. lance of civil authorities awaiting the arrival of expected oil and gaso- line for their airplanes.
 Officers Suppressed.
 Brownsville, Tex, Jan. 31.-The fact that Maj. Gen. Francisco Mur. guia, commander of Mexican mili. tary forces in the northern zone, has taken entirely out of the hands o1 General Furtunato Zuazua, military commander in Tamaulipas, the situa. tion relative to Lieuts. B. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes at Guerrero, Mexi' co, and has ordered the two men talk en to Monterey for military examin' ation proved a surprise to United States army officers here, coming when they thought the return of the two officers to American soil wa. all but actually accomplished.
 General Murguia, according to in formation here, was at Piedras Ne gras, opposite Eagle Pass, today ant it was from there, it is assumed that he ordered Davis and Crime! taken to Monterey. The only infor nation received at Fort Brown her, today was from General Zuazua ant Major Flores, the latter of Matamor os who went to Guerrero, opposit, Zapata. Friday morning, presumabl! to facilitate the departure of thu two Americans. General Zuazua' message came at o'clock this aft ernoon, and was delivered to Captain w. B. Bradford, assistant distric adjutant at Fort Brown. It was t, the. effect that all matters wer. satisfactory and that the return O l the two men was imminent, and in dicated that Zuazua knew nothing O the orders of Murguia.
 Flores, however, in message ear Her in the day, was optimistic tha the return would be soon, altho h said that final instructions wer awaited from General Murguia. Thi was the first intimation that tn I matter had gone to Murguia at all United States Consul Gilbert R Wilson of Matamoros, who has bee dealing with Mexican officials re garding Davis and Grimes, droppe the matter entirely today when h received word that vice consul Ran dolph Robertson at Nuevo Lared had taken it up. No direct wor has been received from the two avia } tors since their first message lat Wednesday conveying the news c their landing south of Guerrero whe their oil and gasoline was exhausted according to Captain Bradford.