Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — AMERICANS AND MEX. FIGHT ACROSS BORDER [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS AND MEX. FIGHT ACROSS BORDER

Nearly a Hundred Shots Fired at ,U. S. Army Aeroplane, and Soldiers Are Also Attacked. A detachment of the 12th United States cavalry early Friday night had a short fight with four Mexican bandits, one of whom was killed and the other 'three' captured, about 12 miles north of Brownsville, Texas. Mexicans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande fired nearly a hundred shots at an American aeroplane flying over -Brownsville, and then their gun's against a squad of American soldiers on guard at the Brownsville electric light plant. When the firing started the soldiers got behind shelter and returned the fire. There were no casualties. This was the second time within two days that a U. S. army aeroplane was fired upon.