Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — Pershing Troops Ordered to Evacuate Mexico Soon. [ARTICLE]

Pershing Troops Ordered to Evacuate Mexico Soon.

Orders for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico were officially announced Sunday by the war department with the statement that the northward movement of General Pershing’s men began early Sunday morning. The final act in the entrance of Mexico of 12,000 American soldiers as a result of the Villa massacre of seventeen Americans at Coiumbus on March 9th, was written Sunday by official announcement of the war department that General Pershing had been ordered, and actually had started to bring his troops back to the United States, . .....