Our Punitive Expedition Into Mexico 



) Underwood and Underwood, N. Y. 



Caught between the roving bands of marauding guerillas, Mexican families have suffered 

 terrible hardships during the past three years. In some instances the homes of peaceful 

 people were destroyed and the members murdered without any reason other than 

 the satisfaction of some alleged leader's lust for blood. Siding with Villa or Carranza 



was useless to ward 

 off these plundering 

 bandits, seeking to 

 destroy both life and 

 property. The pho- 

 tograph shows a 

 band of Mexicans 

 making their way to 

 the United States, 

 where they can set 

 up house and be safe 

 under the Stars and 

 Stripes. Many Amer- 

 ican families have al- 

 so been obliged to 

 leave homes and in- 

 dustrial interests, and 

 seek refuge on our 

 own soil to escape the 

 depredations of Mex- 

 ican outlaws 



Mexican weapons captur- 

 ed by Americans. The 

 lifting of the embargo on 

 arms has placed within 

 the convenient reach of 

 every cut-throat in Mex- 

 ico weapons of the most 

 modem type; in fact, 

 weapons of the same 

 effectiveness as those used 

 cgainst them by the 

 United States troops. 

 Mexico has suffered short- 

 age of everything except 

 arms and ammunition 

 during her recent state of 

 internal revolution. At 

 right, troops of the Puni- 

 tive Expedition drawing 

 water from an improvised 

 well near Divisional Head- 

 quarters at Casas Grandes, 

 Mexico 



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