The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
D|Az SENDS ARMY
TO CONQUER REBELS
Mexican Ruler at Last Realizes
More Men Than Police
Are Required.
Concluded From Page One.

Northwestern railroad to forward the
reiuforcements Today was spent IN
loading food on the cars and III making
other preparations for the campaign.
These troops will go first to San An
tonic. making new force of 1000, led
by the best officers in Mexico. 1t is
their programme to take Nal Paso, the
present rebel stronghold This once
taken a junction VIII be formed with
Navarro and the troops which have
come overland from Sonora.
All this will entail serious fighting,
but there is no foreigner here now view
ing affairs impartially who pretends o
belief thai the fedcrals will not triumph
eventually. The insurrectos lost their
one chance of creating nation wide
revolt when they failed to crush Ma
varro at Cerro Pricto, At that time
they did not have their forces coucen-
trated and Navarro held his own. He
is now strictly on the defensive at
Pedern9les While he is under orders
not 10 take the offensive, he is in
defensive position which the Insurrec-
tos cannot attack without disaster. His
Job is to sit tight and allow the rein
| forcemeuts. now numbering treble his
own force, to continue the campaign.
Navarro's original force was. il has
now been shown, scarcely more than
police force which misguided govern
meut considered sufficient,
Diaz Sends Army.
DiaZ is now sending an army.
In the fight around Pedernales and
he west entrance to Nal Paso the in
surrectos were much inferior in mum.
bers, but at Nal Paso they were su-
perior in position,
IL will be two weeks ago Sunday that
Navarro met the insurrectos at Cerro
Prleto and fought drawn battle. He
Thursday. when he was ordered to clear
Nal Paso of rebels to make way for a
prospective troop train With his en-
tire force he left Cerro Prieto and
marched with every semblance Of MAX
ing an attack on the well-posted revo
lutionists, toward Rancho Santiago,
The 'nsurrectos opened fire. but their
a double quick and shot off at tangent
towards Pedernales, four miles north
For most of the distance he was pro.
tected by low hills, around which the
awakened pronunciados hurried
when they discovered the real obiec-
tive When the hills were passed Ma.
varro used shells on his pursuers, who
what behind This kept them Oft There
was no loss Of life ard Navarro occu-
pied the shelter of the adobe houses
of the town
The next day. Friday. Navarro occu
pied the railway station, where he now
has headquarters, and at the same time
sent a detachment of AIS troops to take
Nal Paso. These went astray and they
naturally found none Of the enemy.
This accounts for Navarro's official
report that he had taken the pass He
thought he bad. Meanwhile the federal
force at Padernales was attacked. but
was repulsed Navarro lost in this en-
gagement about twelve dead. including
two officers. and about twenty FIVE |
wounded.
The insnrrectos lost twenty killed !
and about forty wounded The latter |
were checked in their charge in an
arroyo where they sustained most of
their losses.
SIX of them remained at their post |
until all were, killed, During the fight
ing of Thursday and Friday the shells |
of the federals did no damage.
The revolutlonists in time began to !
treat them with contempt The Mau-
sers were the effective weapons used |
by the national troops,
The shrapnel used, instead oe scat
terIng as designed to do. through some
defect, spouted like fountains.
One of the shells burst within tvep
ty feet of detachment without doing
any damage. Word from Navarro g
camp states that tho general grew in.
censed at the failure of the gunnery
and arrested the gun captain.
The insurrecto detachment which shot
up the troop train at the eastern en-
trance to Nal Paso numbered about
200 men.
The ambuscade cost the federal armv
about thirty.one killed and seventy-one
wounded.
Arrivals from the front today brought
connrmatlon of the statement that Ma
varro executed numbers of civilians At
Cerro Prleto, The number is given
now as thirty-two, twenty-five in the
village and ten at a hamlet nearby.
The story was told here TODAY in CON-
vincing detail.
Last Saturday the revolutionists exc
cuted ten prisoners as retaGatory
measure, These were loyalists taken
at Guerrero three OF four weeks AGO,
They were given trial of rough sort
and convicted of treachery while being
allowed the consideration of neutrals
When the revolutionists became don.
bly, certain Of the executions at Cerro
Prieto they shot their own captives.
The execution occurred at hamlet
between La Junta and Guerrero. Sun.
day, Monday and Tuesday, when the
Associated Press man left the scene.
there was no fighting.
Navarro was content to hold has no.
sitlon. The revolutiouists have ordered
the arrest. of Pancho Villa, the bandit,
who was formerly one of their number.
REBELS HOLD AMERICANS