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Artillery Forces Arrive as Border Fighting Rages
United States artillery arrives from El Paso to reinforce border troops near Naco Sonora as Mexican factions led by Maytorena and Hill exchange fire. Maytorena’s guns shell trenches near Naco, bullets land on the U S side. Provisional president Gutierrez orders Maytorena to confine fire to the border. Spanish partisans executed at Tan Pico. Villa-related turmoil. Pittsburgher R E Dunn is killed in Mexico amid criminal Outlaw activity near Douglas Arizona.
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Naco
Ariz
United States
el Vaso
Osborne
Hill
Maytorena
Sonora
Maytorana
Nace
Boundary Line
Nesr
Tasker H. Bitsa
Bilas
International Line
Vicente Vidal
Eduardo Basargal
Tan Pico
Caballero
Cararanza
Julian Zortila
Riafo
Bryan
Julio Villareal
Mexican Red Cross
Vera Cruz
Europe
State Department
Pittsburgh
Mexico
Douglas
R. E. Dunn
Thomas R. Francis
Miguel McMornie
Calabasas
Francis