"A. OBREGON,
"H. L. SCOTT,
"FREDERICK FUNSTON."
>0 IMMEDIATE THREAT
OK THE EAST STEAMERS NATIONS
[ To-night it was pointed out authoritatively that the various meetings in
, for Paso does not mean that there is
'any immediate threat of a rupture between the United States and Mexico.
So far as the United States is concerned, it is said, the troops in Chihuahua will remain practically inactive. The only break that can possibly come would follow an attack upon United States troops by Cartanza's soldiers.
It is regarded by military men that such an attack would cause hostilities, Army officials here tonight were in receipt of messages from Marathon, stating that Mexican bandits had again crossed into American territory and fired on American soldiers and civilians.
According to another report, an automobile conveying soldiers from Major Langhorne to Colonel Sibley, in the Big Basin district, has been made the target for shots fired by Mexicans.
Army officers have refused to comment on these occurrences, except to state that they were likely to be repeated at intervals.
With the negotiations here ended, the situation reverting to Washington and to the direct control of President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, more has become known of the developments during the fortnightly conferences just passed. It became known, that representations made by 