Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-13

El Paso. Tex, March 12, Conditions bordering on panic reign almost universally throughout northern Mex
 'sy Stirred tired by 5; the belief that the Irev- solutionarys movement has reached a
 critical stage, the insurrectos In the state of Chihuahua and Sonora are re-
 ported to have renewed activity in. Thousands Cut off from Food Supplies.
 Numerous towns. according t0s-r
 ports are under siege by the insur x
 rect0s and thousands of women and
 children, cut off from food supplies,
 are helpless
 Following the receipt of corrected
 details concerning the battle at Casas sGTandes, a town of about 500 inhab. itants about 150 miles southwest of FL
 Paso. where eighty men were killed
 last Monday, news reached here of a sHk1t at noon today at ASua Prieta, on the border across the river from
 Douglas, Ariz.
 fnsbrrectos Repelied by Inferior Force { :. Five hundred insurrectos attacked three hundred federak troops, but were
 repulsed with q loss of 35 dead and . wounded on both sides.
 The fighting was short, and the in-
 surreetos. armed only with rifles. soon
 scattered undeg the fire of machine K gun. k
 Fifteen Americans Among the Dead. E what is believed to be reliable
 report of the casualties at CasaS
 Grandcs says that fifteen Americans E were Killed and seventeen Americans were taken prisoners.
 # Fife following. at first reported to | t,< 1-i1 .,ra n
 eseaned: eIiert.-Col. Giuseppi Gari- Ghaldi. Raoul Madero, brother of Fran sEfsco Afadero so-calied provisional
 president of the insurrectos; Capt. \ Gutierrez de Lara. and Lieut.. l. Va- E lencia of Fl Paso.
 One Of Madero's Staff Prisoner. E Capt Eduoard May. a Mexican. on Madefo'sA personal staff, was not kill 1. ed but was taken prisoner Raoul Afadere va s wounGee. R.sF Hprrington, former sergeant in ahe aited States army, who lived at E1s Pasp; Robert E- Lee and Rob ert Evans of San E1.anO1scQ, and Roy Glenn. from Mineral Springs. Texas were killed.
 l. Naneso Of Amsrttan Dead Unknown. The names of the Americans killed l. or taken prisoners are not known. I \ letter, written by Madero was re-
  nied lie made another attack on the town after he was driven away. He asserts. however, that he has gathered a force of 1000 men and is now with in a few miles of the town.
 Madero Explains His Defeat. His explanation of the defeat is that several scouts, sent out to reconnoltef before the attack, failed to report the coming of Colonel Cuellar with fed VI. fk,d Q VI the federals resulted in a panic among the :nsurrectos. The scouts. he said, had been shot.
 Death Penalty for Acts of Violence The news from Mexico City that President Diaz has decided to take advantage of provisions of the con stftntion so that summary death may be imposed by the military authorities for any acts of violence, and that the Mexican government has decided to wage a sharp and decisive war of ex- terIhination speedily to end hostilities.
 has spread throughout the insurgent
 ranks. The reply, through insurrecto syfnpathizers here, is that i'll retalia- ton the revolutionary forces hereafter will expect and give mo quarter. Women and Children to Suffer.
 Info. Anation from insurrecto sources is that the attitude of the Mexican SOVtel AIicut WiiA tAtCSAAs o 7ASe~e@~A already tense and it will necessarily impose further hardships on non com bafaffts. including women and chfl- dren. living in the small towns scat tered through the war zone' Food Situation Critical. No word has come from the city of Chihuahua for seven days The last report was that the food question had become critical. The presence in the city of two thousand federal troops under Gen. Juan Hernandez. while looked upon as sufficient protection aR2inst an attack, is thought to nave more than ordinarily depleted rattons. Like conditions prevail in many smaller towns.
 otrsnatF of the Opposing Armies. The best information obtainable here as to the strength of the opposing ar- mies in Sonora and Chihuahua stateA is that the federals under General Na- varro have 5000 men. of whom 2,O00 are in Chiht1al1ua city, 450 in Juarez, and the rest scattered, while the in- surrect0s under Madero and General pasouale Orexco have about an equal number, but with no one force larger thAp 1000. 4flo arrival of United States troops here stoday occasioned much interest Tfie hrrfYaIs were two troops of the FS5ar4l1 cAvalry from Fort Mead. S. sD With four more troops due tomorrow from Fort Smelling, Minn., and the troops already here. they will com pose q force of nine hundred men un- der Col. E. 2 Steever.