Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — PLAN WAR TO DEATH ON VILLA [ARTICLE]

PLAN WAR TO DEATH ON VILLA

New Government Determined to Get Bendit Dead or Alive. —।— BIG REWARD IS OFFERED I ■■■— 111 ■ Minister of War Says Republic Muse Be Made Safe for Foreigners and Outside Capital—Plan “Steel Ring." • Mexico City, June 4. —War to the death has been declared aaginst Francisco Villa and his followers by tho new Mexican government. "We are gomg to clean house Mexico and we are going to get Villa dead or alive if it takes the last dollar in the treasury and the last living soldier in the Mexican army,” declared Gen. P. Elias Callee, acting minister of war. “Banditry must be eliminated in Mexico and the government is determined to see that it is This is especially necessary in the isolated regions. The republic must be made safe for foreigners and outsidn capital. No stone will be left unturned to bring this about. We aro opening a campaign of extermination the outlaw, Villa, and his followers. An effort was made to negotiate wltli Villa and secure the surrender of himself and his men, but It has falledJ Terms of settlement were offered, butt the Villlstas rejected them.” Turn Down Villa. While General Callee was on his way to Mexico City front) Sonora, Villa sens an envoy to Chihuahua City to with him and establish the official status of the Villlstas in the antl-Carran-i za revolution. General Callee suggested that VlUal and about 200 of his followers ret! rd to the state of Sonora and remain qui-i et until after the presidential election! when the new government would make) known its decision. Villa refused to go to the state of Sonora and made the counter deman d that he be put In supreme command 6? the rebel forces in the state of Chihuahua. General Callee rejected thlg proposal. Three troop trains, bearing more| than 2,500 soldiers, have left for Chihuahua during the past 30 hours toi Join the hunt for Villa. The are abj ready a number of federal troops In . the central part of that state seeking! Villa and they are believed to be hot on the trail, but the wild and mountafnous nature of the country and Villa’s knowledge of the Intricate moun-i tain by-ways makes the hunt a difficult one. Form Steel Ring. General Callee said that the plan of the campaign is to form a “steel ring’” about the central part of the state* where Villa is now In hiding, and theni close it In gradually. In order to stimulate the campaign and bring It to a quick close all the federal soldiers have been notified that the government will pay a reward of 100,000 pesos for Villa dead or alive. Villa la Defeated. Washington, June 4.—Francisco VIU la was defeated in an attack on the garrison at Parral and now Is In flight with Igriacio Enriquez, forger governor of Chihuahua and present military commander of the Chihuahua district In pursuit, according to Information received by the state department.