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Federals Have Been Busy Since
Sunday on the Road. n
EADY FOR PEACE COUNCIL
Dr.. Vasquez Gomez Will Be Named to
Represent Insurrectos.
EXPECTED MONDAY
Negotiations VIII Begin Soon After
His ArrivRI-GonEHIes ts quite
Doubtful of Agreement Be-
ing Reached.

CHIHUAHUA. April 29.-More than 100
freight cars loaded with 900 federal troops
and equipment left here over the Mexican
National railroad today for Juarez The
troops are commanded by Generals Rabago
and Orozco and are provided with field
guns and ammunition for heavy action.
Since Sunday workmen under military
guard have been hurriedly repairing the
railroad north of here and today II was to
be repaired as far north as Sauz thirty
miles
The troops were to take train as far as
Sauz and from there march overland to
Juarez
No efforts are made here to conceal the
expectation that before they reach Juarez
the federal troops will be encountered by
the insurrectos and that a serious conflict
will result.
The movement of federal reinforcements
northward was being expedited in Chi
huahua just at a time when officials were
giving out information that an armistice
was being arranged,
Preparations for Conference.
Ell PAsO, April @.--It is said that with
the arrival tonight OF DR.. Vasquez Gomez.
he will be named by General Madero as
the insurrecto peace commissioner: Judge
Francisco Carbajal, the government COM
missioner probably will be here Monday
and the formal peace conference will. it
is hoped. begin the following day.
Abram Gonzales, provisional governor ot
the state of chihuahua, arrived last night.
| He expressed himself as none too confident
OF the success Of negotiations, but will
assist, nevertheless in the attempt TO bring
about peace.
The statement that there are 5000 insur-
| rectos in the state OF Puebla is challenged
here. The last reports received here
| showed that there were about 1000 of them
and that only a small percentage were
armed.
MaderO on Corral Interview.
General Madero. speaking of the revoiu-
tion in the state of Puebla, declared that
he had been assured that any peace terms
accepted by him would be ratified by revo-
lutionary leaders OF Puebla.
| OF the alleged interview with Vice Pres
ident Corral he had this to say:
II am not sure that Corral made the
statement credited 70 him by a newspaper
! but ! do know that when the revolution
was in the formative stage, It was part Of
the Diaz-Corral strategy to spread the
impression that the United States would
intervene in behalf of the Mexican govern
ment. This was 10 make us appear I'M
! patriotic. However, the revolution got
under way and is winning, yet there has
been no Intervention, The government
therefore, is trying to make 1t appear that
the revolt does not owe its spread to the
unpopularity of the administration but to
foreign elements, which they alege have
come to the aid Of the uprising
Mexico QuestionE Corral.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-The Mexican
government has cabled to Vice President
Corral, who is travelling in Spain, to ascer-
! tain whether or not he was correctly
quoted in the interview published in Mex
leo City, In which he is quoted as crit-
Sislng Americans in connection with the
Mexican revolution. The State department
was advised to this effect today by Am
bassador Wilson,
The department also is advised that the
federal forces at Mazatlan have refused to
surrender that city in response to a de-
msnd from the insurrectos and in oonse-
quence an attack is expected at any mo-
ment.
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican ambas-
sador, today had a long conference with
Assistant Secretary OF State Wilson in re-