MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

Mataura Ensign, 14 January 1916, Page 5

MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

SECOND EDITION.

♦ in lED to attack train. VILLI ST A SOLI.) IK ITS J)IUVKN OF* The I'ullowiii”; 'tnosaj'e trom LI Paso (Texas), dated October 30, i<) the ‘.New Sun,' Mill lie ol interest- in view ol to-day's eab!c coneendnj; ' dia : [(’cats «f American ollic-eis <-ame near Indue realised tins afternoon at 1 o'clock. shortly alter a tram hearing Carranza .soldiers from Piodras- -Neeras lo A-pta IT-ictae Sonora, pulled- out ol the depot at LI Paso. Three hundred Villa troops dashed out< of liuliiiji, on tho ,Mo\i<:ni' .sulo. ami started towards tlie train, nllcs m hand. The Villistas wen 1 less than a ((imrl.ur <>F ji milt? From the truin. vnth lon'y the ILo Claude separating them from the Carranza troops, the railroad skirt.i the rivet - us it leaves Kl Paso. As llie Villa troops dashed down from the lirnsh-eovered unonntain.s toward the river and the tra'-inload of Carranza- 'liautps- on its opposite hank, a company ol" American intaiitry that had hen secreted in adohe houses on the American side between the railroad embankment and tlie water made a hurried appearance. and the \dhslas (piickiv turned und 1 disappeared into the hills. ' The situation was tense lor a Line, ami- H”-tilted in ihe American troopdnitblinij; I licii'' jpnard for the oilier trains to lollow. Altogether seven trains passed- through. A-rlillcry was olm-ed mi the licielil-. almre Ll'Paso this evening, command injr (|i ( . place where the attack w:ethreatened upon (lie Carranza troop this afternoon. While the artillery was liciipp: wheeled into position the horse.ail ached to -one ol the caissons ran a Wav and several troopers were injured, some probably fa 1 ally.

.W one of the Carranza troon trains approached -id! Paso l-n-liighl. accord-in-g to slnries brought in by trainmen, dvimmi" was discovered on tbe track near Kabens, JO mib's east out ol Itere. ’l'll.' Hnifed Stales troops on duty tired at smile ?dcxicans seen Laving tbe place and killed one and i trill red 1 tivo. ibe I raininen dcdaro, ■The tirsr trainload of Carran/.a reint'oreeaienls who were en route to join tbe (’arrair/.a ganmoiv under (tenoral Ca.lles at Ayna Prieia consisted ol Vaoni Indians, natives of Sonora. Tbe Indians had been campaigning lor Carranza for two years, having- gone en Ibe west eoasl of Mexico and made a ciivle around lb.' edge ol their country. Man' of I hem said tleyv were, boiim rejoined at Agna Prieta by their families. whom i bey bad no I. seen .vivee lem iter Sonora. The Carranza soldiers were locked in n,i;iHir«, their arms in •.■ea'ed baggage cars, and Anievean mI.mi rynmi .->ll' each end of cadi coadi prevent.!* 1 any ol I bein' b-aving f b«■ train. Cheese and bread Conned the so'e mibs’.st cnee of Ibe Mexican i root's. I nC'•-1111:1 i 111 came from Canaima io.iav (bat ad the Americans at- ibai iwait, are safe. Those supposed to have left ainf lielieved to be in tbe baud; of the Villa armV were reported as -t.il: in C'liaiiea. noder promise of prol“c- - 1: 1111 Ire u the Yaimi Indian commander of Ibe Vila C.-irees there. He also eroniised (bat the proper! ies of ik'Giw.'-Cana'c-a <V; per ('omoan', American owned, would not, be molested* d t.'n owners "i'oniiseil that they warn'd resume o"era( ions shortly. H. C. M vie l -. Hr't isb Ceimo! -of Kl Paso, returned, to-day troni M iva'iiMelon. where he bad beep c.-iPcd lor '•onsit!tut ion l' v fbe British Ambassador (*■ lake no I’i'e anal ter of Cm arrest at Cnanaemi. Dnraim-o. of Ernest laavton, Hrdisli sublet. togc'lmr w ; ’h the C-dliobc m-ic'd, of that p*-m-c. If'-' men 'ire sum'' sed .)<> be m id>.> hands ■ a i'-miion idonld'md wHi neither i!’e ! '-ierai><■ i• ■ *-m nor I.be \ illi'-das and are lid ng he’d- for ransom.