Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1916 — VILLISTAS PLAN NEW RAID ON U. S. [ARTICLE]

VILLISTAS PLAN NEW RAID ON U. S.

200 Villistas Make Their Way to the Northward After Escape Front Net of Ramos. Several scattered groups >f Villa followers have eluded the cordon of government troops which surrounded them in the Rio Florida bottoms and have reassembled at Tanajas and Las Escobas, on the road to Ojinga, and are making their way to the north with the object of making another raid on the American border, according to a confidential report to General Jacinto Trevino Monday.

Gen. Trevino immediately ordered the commanders of the garrisons at Ojinga and Piedras Negras to throw troops out in an attempt to intercept the bandits, whose numbers are estimated at 200. He pointed out, however, that the nature of the territory is such that some of the outlaws might evade the government troops and suggested that it might be well fJr the military authorities on the American side of the frontier to be especially vigilant. “With the advent of the rainy season”, he said, “the abundant water supply makes it easy for small bands to deviate from beaten roads and oil water holes. However, the Mexican troops will do everything they can to prevent the bandits reaching the American border.”