The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-04-28
FOREIGN NEWS.

The most important battle Of the
Mexican revolution was fought at
Aqua Prieta between 1000 federals
under command of Lieutenant Colonel
Diaz and 1000 rebels under Balasario
Garcia and resulted in the repulse of
the former. The battle, however, was
not finally decisive. 1t lasted from
$3.50 a. m. until shutdown. At nightfall
two federal machine guns were in pos
session of the rebels and the federals
had sustained a loss estimated by the
rebels as at least 200 killed and
wounded. The. rebels gave their own
loss at twenty. From the beginning
of the battle, regardless of the warn
ing given by the United States govern
ment to the leaders of both forces, a
rain of bullets poured into the Amer
can town of Douglas. Ariz., and when
the day was over it was found that
sever noncombatant residents of that
city had been wounded. 1t was a day
almost of terror in Douglas.
An armistice of five days affecting
the district between Juarez and Chi
huahua, Mex, and west of the latter
city was made effective in an ex-
change of letters signed by General
Francisco /. Madero for the rebels and
General Juan Navarro for the govern
ment. The truce provides that there
shall be no movement of troops of
either side during the five days and
that provisions and medicines may be
brought to either camp from the Amer
lean side without payment of duty.
Thirty-two persons were killed in
the wreck of a passenger train on the
Kowie railway in Cape Colony when
it plunged to destruction into. a gorge
ESQ feet deep through the collapse of
the Blaauwkrantz bridge. In addition
many were injured. 1t was the most
appalling wreck in the history OF
South African railways.
The Mexican rebel army, after al
most eighteen hours of incessant fight
ing in defense of Aqua Prieta, quietly
evacuated the town at night. 1t moved
out silently and when day broke was
nowhere to be seen. The Mexican
federal troops entered the city at
dawn, encountering nc resistance.
The Portuguese mail steamer Lusi-
tania is piled up on Bellows rock, two
miles southwest of the Cape of Good
Hope. Her 800 passengers and crew
were taken off by the British war
ship Forte and a government tug.
Eight persons were drowned during
the transfer.
Lieutenant Walter H. Rodney of the
Second United States cavalry, station
ed at Augur barracks in the depart
ment of Mindanao, Philippine Islands,
was murdered by a Moro Juramenta-
do, crazed with religious passion, who
ran amuck, thirsting for the blood OF
a Christian.
1t is reported that following the
capture of Santiago P~apasquiaro,
Mex, by the rebels there was a gen.
eral uprising on the ranches and in
the villages throughout that region.
The number OF rebels now under arms
in that section is said to be about
1000.
Paris retains it's position as the
third largest city in the world, the
census taken last month showing a
population of 2%,S46,9S6. The present
census shows an increase of 124,255
over the figures of 1906.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned
when the British steamer San Fernan-
do sank off Fernistere, Portugal. -Four
survivors were picked up by the Ger
man steamer Portimao.
Captain Carron of the French army
aviation corps fell with his aeroplane
from a height of $50 feet and was
crushed to death.
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