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MOUNTAIN SCOUT, TAYLORSVILLE, N. C. AMER CAN TROOPS GROSS THE BORDER AFTER VILLA GENERAL. PERSHING BEGINS PUR SUIT OF VILLA ON MEXICAN SOIL. CARRANZA FORCES JOIN AMERICANS IN CHASE BRIG. GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING 2010 TO REGULAR CONGRESS AUTHORIZES RECRUIT ING MOBILE ARMY TO ITS FULL STRENGTH. General Bertaini's Men Eager to En gage With U. S. Troops Exact ' Whereabouts of Villa Unknown. Many Watch Soldiers Cross Border Line to Begin Hunt. San Antonio. Texas. Brigadier Gen eral Pershing with more than 4.000 roops began the pursuit in Mexico of Francisco Villa, whose raid across the border last week caused President Wil son and his cabinet to decide to use the United States army to run him .-' lown. General Pershing's report that he and his command had crossed the in ternational boundary line Just south of Columbus, N. M., have reached Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, in charge here of general operations. Reports of the progress in the country where search has been begun will be made by Gen. Pershing to Gen. Funston. but it is not anticipated that these will be frequent or dear with any but the more impor tant developments. How far into Mexico the column had reached was not known here, nor did General Funston appear greatly con cerned. General Pershing's course for the next two days is known at head quarters and not until after several days are sharp developments expected. Col. George J. Dodd, heading a smaller column that entered Mexico some distance. 'west. 'Of Columbus, also is moving in a southerly direction and these two forces should be within touch of each other soon. By that time it is expected an infantry sup port will hold the lines of communica tion along which motortrucks for the transportation of ammunition and sup plies will be operated. The censorship imposed by General Funston was relaxed but efforts still were made to keep secret the details of the plan of campaign, the exact number of men engaged and their ac tual locations. Ganeral Pershing's report of his en trance into Mexico served to dispel to a great extent fears in some quarters that resistance would be of fered by troops of the de facto govern ment. Colonel Bertaini, the command er of the Carranza garrison at Palo mas, on the south side of the dividing line, promptly joined General Pershing. His force was only some 400 men, but they were reported to have displayed willingness and even eagerness to join in the chase. As a body the Mexican troops will remain under their own commander, but a number of them are being employed as scouts by General Pershing. General Pershing has gone into Mexico with orders to overtake and wipe out Villa and his organization. Unless orders to the contrary are re ceived from those higher in authori ty than General Funston, the cam paign that was begun will continue until Villa is captured or killed. No limits have been placed on the field of operations. After the campaign is ' well under way, it was pointed out, circumstances may cause restrictions, but just now the troops are prepared to go anywhere to carry out the presi dent's orders. . It was expected , the troops would cross earlier in the day. but minor troop movements and other details of organization delayed the start. There are now available in this de partment for operations in Mexico more than 20.000 troops and plans for recruiting the companies to full strength are expected to increase the number quickly. Cavalry posts have auJOtJ or luafliea uenerai rersning who is now in Mexico leading in the hunt for Villa and Bandits. NEWS FROM BORDER PLEASES WASHINGTON Washington. With American troops across the Mexican border seeking ilia and his baudits President Wilson and officials of the War Department resigned themselves to wait possibly many days for news of developments in the chase. Information that forces cf the de facto Mexican Government were co-operating with the expedition from the United States served to re lieve tense anxiety that had been ap parent on all sides over the possibility of Carranza troops revolting against their commanders and attempting to oppose the entry of the Americans. Although Brigadier General Perish ing and Colonel Dodd marched into Mexico with some 5,000 men, it was not until more than six hours after wards that the official announcement came to Washington. It was received in the evening, and Secretary Baker at once hurried to the White House for a conference with the President. The Secretary made this anonunce ment:. "The Department received in code, a message fronr General Funston which announces that American troops crossed the border into Mexico but does not give the hour of the cross ing. I am very happy to say that the dispatch shows that the military rep resentative of the de facto Government of Mexico not only interposed no ob stacle, but appears to be co-operating." General Pershing's Staff. San Antonio. Texas. The signal corps detachment which accompanied the expedition is provided with wire less equipment by means of which field radiograms will be sent to El Paso and relayed from that point to General Funston's at Forrt Sam Hous ton. For military reasons the personnel of General Pershing's organization was withheld but the formation of his staff was announced as follows: Chief of Staff, Lieut. Col. Derosey Cabell, Tenth Cavalry. Adjutant, Maj. John L. Hines. ad jutant general of Eighth Brigade. Assistant chief of staff, Capt. Wil son B. Burtt Twentieth Infantry; in temgencer officer, Col. Lucien G. Berry, Fourth Field Artillery; quar termaster, Maj, John F. Madden, quartermaster's corps; surgeon-at Base, Lieut. Col. Euclid F, Frick, medical corps; commander-at-base, Maj. William R. Sarrple. Twentieth Infantry; aides, Lieut. James L. Col lins, Eleventh Cavalry and Lieut. Martin C. Shallenberger; Sixteenth Infantry; surgeon, Maj. Jere B. Clay ton; engineer, Maj. Lytle Brown; sig nal officer, Capt. Hanson B. Black. MAKING SUPREME EFFORT Official Dispatches Indicate That Car-' j, ranza la Determined to Capture Villa and Bandits. Washington. While there were In dications in official dispatches from Mexico that the de facto government was making a supreme effort to cap ture Villa and his bandits with its own forces, there was no sign that General Funston's orders to proceed on the same errand had been modified in any way. . Word that American troops had crossed the border was still lacking the war department itself not having been advised as to when the movement would begin. Congress took active notice of the border situation for the first time. The house passed a joint resolution authorizing the recruiting of the mo bile regular army to full strength. This means the addition of approxi mately 20,000 fighting men to the in fantry, cavalry and field artillery. The step was suggested by the army general staff. Ever since the patrol of the border began the army has been greatly handicapped by the skeleton organization of xegimentls. companies, troops and batteries. The force that occupied Vera Cruz had similar difficulties, some of the com panies there being less than 40 men strong. " ' ;.: Secretary Baker conferred with Sen ator Chamberlain and Representative Hay, chairman of the congressional military committees. The resolutions was introduced by Representative Hay j immediately upon his return to the j capital. Its consideration was expe dited by unanimous consent and its passage followed with only Representa tive London, Socialist, voting against it. The state department has forwarded by cable, telegraph, radio and mail full statements of all that has trans pired since the raid upon Columbus and of the attitude of the United States government and its reciprocal agreement with the Carranza govern ment to consuls and state department agents throughout the Southern Re public. It is expected these officials will correct immediately and author itatively any misstatements or mis apprehensions in their districts. Ill ttt, 'J A ILL OF SECRECY SURROUNDS TROOPS EVEN WASHINGTON DOES NOT KNOW WHEREABOUTS OF PERSHING'S MEN. TROOPS MOVE SOUTHWARD GENERAL CARRANZA Head of the De Facto Government AGREE WITH CARRANZA MEXICAN TROOPS WILL BE AL LOWED TO CROSS - BORDER ''. LINE.'.": American Government Expects Hearty Co-operation of Carranza Forces In Hunt For Villa. Washington. The United States Government entered into a formal agreement with the de facto govern ment of Mexico under which the American troops will cross the border to hunt down Villa and his bandits i not divulge any details of the num- Villa Is Far in South and it Will Re quire Several Days For U. S. Sol- : diers to Reach Territory. Washington.-An Impenetrable wall of secrecy surrounded the movements of American troops beyond the Mexi can border. So far as official Wash ington was advised the columns vir tually might have vanished into thin air when they crossed the interna tional boundary in pursuit of Villa. Even the commander-in-chief, Presi dent Wilson, did not know where Gen eral Pershing's men were. Secretary Baker received virtually no reports from General Funston deal ing with events beyond the border. He said he did not know whether the troops had proceeded southward from their first bivouac on Mexican soil. Not a single dispatch from the border was made public during the day except one reporting the death of Lieutenant Zell, Eleventh Cavalry, at the Colum bus hospital where he took his own life in a fit of despondency- Army officials were convinced that no important developments were to be expected for several days yet. It seemed plain from the day's accu mulation of rumors that Villa was far to the south of his American pur suers. The War Department would SENATOR SHIVELY DEAD. Crossing Witnessed by Hundreds. faso, Texas. American troops hp.n rpHAvnrf hv Infantrv In c " miles West Ot -fn nrHor tn fnrni.h . mn,o I here- the vanguard of an expedition bile force for the pursuit of Villa, al-! g?ered ln less than a week- but one though in the expedition that went in ! "JUBl 'uwerl" ':es assemmea today there is a considerable force j bky is country since the Spanish of artillery which can be reinforced fA(mercan War. They were out on the I lueuucai unis wnere one week ago Pancho Villa led 1,200 of his bandits at any time by several more batteries now held on the American side within easy distance of the border. If the exact whereabouts of Villa is known at army headquarters the fact has not been disclosed. Generally it is believed be has moved southward toward the Guerrero district In the foothills of the Sierra Madres, but reports from Mexican sources Indicate that the de facto government troops will do their best to turn him north ward towards the advancing American cplumns. Bands affiliated with Villa ln the north have not indicated their inten tions, bat brisk activity on their part will not surprise American army of ficers. It is anticipated that in chas jng Villa these bands will have to be met from time to time and engaged. Nothing in the day's reports indi cated that the defection of the small Carranza garrison at Ojinaga had been followed by other Mexican government , troops and action of Col. Bertaini's troops in joining the American expedi- j tion supported belief that most of Car- stealthily up to the American border, to make an early morning rush upon the sleeping American city of Colum bus, N. M., and murdered 17 Ameri cans, eight of them soldiers, and one a woman, The elements of the armament of this force. Its numbers and the direc tion or direstions In which its various columns headed after they passed the international line was a secret held by the military consorship. The more important fact that the Americans bad gone into Mexico again, was an event witnessed by hun dreds of spectators who crowded into Columbus. They saw the troops move off toward the boundary line, until when- the men crossed they were tiny, hut distinct brown lines in the dis tance i In the clear western iar. As the troops passed farther into the low srravel bills, clouds of white dust hid the men and their further movements ait effectually as the censorship. Be hind the troops who moved forward. ranzas forces would support him In (new regiments rapidly filled the ra ms promise or co-operation. 1 cated camps in Columbus. Hoosier Senator Was For Many Years Prominent Figure in Congress. Washington. Benjamin F. Shively, senior senator from Indiana and for ears a prominent figure in congress, died at a hospital here. He had been ill many months from a complication of diseases and for more than a year had been unable to perform actively his official duties. He was 54 years old.' During three terms in the house and the seven years he had been ln the sen ate, Snator Shively had devoted his activities particularly to foreign af fairs and tariff legislation. " At the time of his death he was ranking Dem ocratic member of the foreign rela tions committee, of which he had been acting chairman during the critical pe riod preceding and following the Amer ican occupation of Vera Cruz. In the house he had been regarded as a tariff expert, serving conspicu ously on the ways and means commit tee and later as a member of an im portant sub-committee of the senate finance committee, exerted a power ful influence in the framing of the Underwood-Simmons tariff law. Ready to Cross Border. El Paso, Texas. Points near Co lumbus, N. M., where the American expeditionary force is gathering re ported that preparations were under way indicating that part of the Am erican troops were in readiness to cross the border. Lansing Taking a Rest. Washington. Secretary Lansing left for Pinehurst, N. C, for a week's vacation. For many weeks he has been working under a heavy pressure ot diplomatic affairs and feels the need of a rest. Taking a vacation at this time was regarded here as indicative of how completely the State Department re gards the Mexican situation ln the bands of the army and that the un derstanding with General Carranza Is complete. with the expectation of hearty . co operation from the Carranza forces. : Secretary Lansing made public the text of a note, accepting General Car ranza's proposal for a reciprocal ar rangement between the two Govern ments and : announcing that the United States held this arrangement to be now in force and binding upon both parties. General Funston will carry out his task under agreement. Official announcement was awaited that the American forces had crossed the border. Plans for the troop move ments have gone ahead without re gard to the diplomatic exchanges. Mr. Lansing also made public a state ment issued in the name of President Wilson, reiterating that every step be inp taken by the administration was based on the deliberate intention to preclude the possibility of armed in tervention in Mexico. It follows: "In order to remove any apprehen sion that may , exist either in the United States or in Mexico, the Presi dent has authorized me to give in his name the public assurance that the military operations now in con templation by this government will be scrupulously confined to the ob ject already announced and that in no circumstances will they be suffer ed to infringe in any degree upon the sovereignty of Mexico or develop into intervention of any kind in the ' in ternal affairs of our sister republic. "On trs contrary, what is now be ing done, is deliberately intended to preclude the possibility of interven tion." '. The note to Carranza defines the terms of the agreement beyond the possibility of misconstruction. In brief it provides that where condi tions arise on the Mexican side of the border similar to those at Colum bus which led to the orders to Gen. eral Funston, to enter Mexico, the same privilege will be accorded to the Mexican de facto - Government without the necessity of a further ex change of views. It is clearly stated, however, that the bandits to be pur sued on American soil by Mexican trcops must have come from the American . side, committeed depreda tions on the Mexican side and fled back again to United States territory. There is no such instance on record iii recent years. ber of troops across the border or of the regiments sent. Press advices, however, showed that infantry accom panied the cavalry and artillery out of Columbus in the main column. That means slow progress across the desert. It will take days, it is said, to cover the distance to Galena, the last town where Villa was reported unofficially to have been seen. American consuls in Mexico so far have been able to give little aid to the troops, although all are on the watch for information that might in dicate the bandit's movements. Con sular advices continued to report gen erally quiet conditions. Officials dis played some concern over the situa tion in the Tampico district, however, where there are signs of unrest. The battleship Kentucky was ordered back to Vera Cruz from New Orleans, Sec retary Daniels explaining that navy vessels now on the Mexican coast did not have radio equipment powerful enough to insure uninterrupted com munication with Washington. GERMANS BEATEN BACK. French Repulse Infantry Attack at Le Mort Homme. London. Repulse at the hands of the French again has been the net re sult of a German infantry attack launc sult of a German infantry attack launched with huge effectiveness after a heavy bombardment against French position at Le Mort Homme, north west of Verdun. The Germans, who attacked In serried masses, were driv en eastward toward the Bois des Cor beaux, where the French guns inflicted heavy casualties on them. . The attack at Le Mort Homme con sttuted the only infantry maneuver along the entire French front, but from Belgium to the Vosges, the artillery on both sides has been active at num erous points. Around Douamount and the village of Vaux the big guns are operating with redoubled violence, while south ward in the Woevere the artillery duel ward in the Woevre, the artillery duels in the Meuse hills continue. Strict Embargo on News. San Antonio, Texas. Placing of a strict embargo on news oat of Co lumbus, N. M., where the main body Of the United States expeditionary force awaits word to cross Into Mex ico in search of Francisco Vilyla, was the important development at Fort Sam Houston, where Major General Frederick Funston was arranging the final details of the expedition. In mil itary circles an attitude of expectancy succeeded the tightening of the cen sorship. News will also be watched at El Paso Excitement at Torreon Subsides.' Torreon, Mexico. Excitement of Mexicans over entry of American troops into Mexico had subsided con siderably. Forty Americans left here for the United States and their train was reported safely past Hlpolito, which put it beyond the district where bandit attacks had been feared. U. S. Soldiers Eeize Cartridges. Douglas, Ariz. Half a million cart ridges consigned to Gen. P. Elias Calles, military governor of Sonora, were seized here by 1 United States soldiers. Two hundred , thousand ar rived by ferright 300,00, by express. Plenty of Troops on Border. San Antonio, Texas. A sufficient force is now gathered at the Mexican border under the command of Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, to begin pur suit of Francisco Villa, it was an nounced by Major General Frederick Funston. The general said that only the completion of plans for backing up the expeditionary forces now ' was needed. He was non-committal, how ever, as to the time needed to accom plish this. Left Mexico in Box Cars. Laredo, Tex. Traveling the entire distance in box cars, C. A. Williams, United States consul, and 45 other Americans arrived here from Torreon, Mexico. , Their departure, they said was not caused by any overt acts on the part ot Mexicans or failures on the part of de facto government of ficials to offer protection. Vote to Retain Sugar Tariff. Washington. With 13 Democrats and the one Socialist member oppos ing, the house by a vote of 346. to 14 passed the administration bill to retain the present tariff of one cent a pound on sugar Instead of permitting the free clause of the Underwood-Simmons ta riff act to go into effect May 1. - The measure now goes to the senate. De bate on the measure aroused little en thusiasm until late in the day when Majority Leader Kltchin took the floor to close the argument : Dutch Steamer Lost In North Sea London. The Holland Lloyd pas senger steamer Tubantfa sank off the Noordhinder Lightship as the result of striking a mine or an attack by a submarine. All the passengers, among whom are said .to have been several Americans, and the members of the crew, are believed to have been res cued. The steamer carried between 80 and 90 passengers and a crew of 300. She was a vessel of 15,000 tons. The first flashes from the liner said aha had been torpedoed and was sinking. THE EUROPEAN WAR A' YEAR AGO THIS WEEK March 20, 1915. 8ortie by Przemysl garrison re pulsed. A Holland protested against trade embargo. . Persian government called en Russia to evacuate province of Azerbljan. March 21, 1915. Germans captured a hill in the Vosges. Austrians renewed operations against Serbia but were defeated in artillery duel near Belgrade. Russians advanced on Tilsit. Botha announced capture of Ger mans at Swakopmund, German Southwest Africa. German submarine sank collier Cairntorr. Zeppelins dropped bombs Paris and Calais. Italy national defense law promulgated. British on March 22, 1915. Russians captured Przemysl with 125,000 men. Austrians shelled Montenegrin positions. British steamer Concord torpe doed.' ...'.'.: s -. Allied airmen dropped bombs on Mulheim. March 23, 1915. Turkish force operating against Suez routed. Dutch steamer attacked by Ger man trawler. Turks re-enforced Dardanelles forts. . American Red Croas sent twenty-seven tons of supplies to Bel gium. March 24, 1915. New battle began along the Yser. Fierce fighting In the Carpa thians. Russians marched on Hungary. German vessels shelled Russian positions near Memei. Allies resumed bombardment of Dardanelles forts and landed forces on Gallipoll. British airmen raided German submarine shipyard at Antwerp. March 25, 1915. Russians carried Austrian posi tion on Beskid mountains crest and won victory in Bukowina. Fighting in Southern Poland re sumed. German submarine sank : Dutcn steamer Medea. Turks and Kurds massacred Christians in Persia, those at Geog topa being saved by Dr. H. P. Pack ard, American. March 26, 1915. Belgians advanced on road from Dixmude to Ypres. Austro-German armies in Carpa thians withdrew Into Hungary. Germans retired before Russians in north. French airmen dropped bombs on Metz. ' ' Army contract fraud uncovered n Hungary. Turks killed refugees in Ameri can mission at Urumiih, Persia. POSTSCRIPTS. American canned salmon is favor ably known throughout the entire world. The exports if it amounted to S7,000,000 a year. Forty-four families who perform no useful service in this country have a yearly income equal to 100,000 wage earners at an average of $500. German , army surgeons have to have gold for many Jobs of jaw patch ing. Among the articles being melted down for the material are old wedding rings, English coins and even fillings from the teeth. By reason of the lack of fast col ors, gray' has become very fashions able in England, and the large quan tities of dark brown colors on hand before the war are responsible for the present vogue of browns there. Scar lets, pinks and blues are very scarce, "The Island of Black Cats", is a name applied to Chatham Island in the Pacific ocean, about 730 miles west of the coast of Ecuador. It is over run with black cats; indeed, cats of no other color are seen there. These animals live in the crevices of the lava foundation near the coast, and subsist by catching fish and crabs. The annual cheese production nf Canada amounts to 130,000,000 pounds, of which about one-half is made In Ontario. The Japanese are now manufactur ing yearly about 15,000,000 worth of toys, of which 40 per cent are foi ex- ' portatlon. The state of Ohio U to establish a. postal system for the service of the various state departments entirely separate from that of the national aw- eminent, in the tatehouae win iwi placed a central post ofllce. which win handle an the mail sent, from one de partment to another.
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