The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
ENERAL NAVARRO
 REPORTS BATTLE
e4ican Officer Tells of Fight
 at Nal Paso
NLY A FEW MEN KILLED
,vnrre Rep0rts Thirteen of His Men Dead and Fourteen InsurrcctOrs With several Missing on
 Each Side

Mexieo City, December 31.-Twenty- ven killed, three missing and 2s ounded is the official report of casual IS during the fighting at Nal Paso on scamber 2S, when that stragetic point 5le revolutionists in the state of fluahua was taken by the federals. le dead 1S were federals and IA utionists The three unaccounted were federals.
 the regulars, 2S were wounded, lding a lieutenant colonel.
 le number of revolutionists wound- is unknown as they were carried ay by their comrades.
 he official report of General Navar- to General Hernandez, chief of the tary zone, and by him transmitted tie war department today, was as Vows:
 Yesterday with the object of re- ring the telegraph wire from this mp as far as the Nal Faso canyon, 1 cred a force to proceed under com nd of Col Manuel Gordillo Escudero, 1posed of 200 men of the Tenth bat lon; 200 of the Second and 50 of the tn; 90 of the Twelfth, four mem- $ of the Third corps of rurales two graph operators and c. lose Mu- who offered his services as guide. The force set out at 7:45 o'clock ( arrived at it's destination at s:S0 m, after repairing the wire at Kill eter 160.
 Horses Arc Captured
 At this point we saw an outpost of enemy and succeeded in captur- his horses.
 At the village of Cienaga, at about , D. m., the rebels located on Q about POO or 300 meters from the age, suddenly opened fire upon the ance guard from behind rocks and ss. I ordered the men on the righ ter Maj. Edwardo Lopez to march inst the enemy, and charged Lieut.. tor NJ. Moran with the protection of left and centers.
 The enemy was dislodged after a orn resistance from the advan- eous position which they occupied. was forced to retreat to the noun IS. This gave us possession of Nal o. "A detachment of our troops fol- %d the rebels through the canyon Burned without meeting any fur l asistance. tonel Gordillo reports that the |
 ionists are encamped in the viz |
 and that they have a plentiful | y of food and fresh meat and are | mounted but that he could not fix | M any exactness their numbers. | ng. however. from the intensity l cir fire and their number of .ef, which had been prepared, and stubbornness of their resistance Ehout the hours of fighting, ha -t to believe that they were about Bng.
 1iakes Camp After Battle .5nel Gordillo reported furthermore pving to the lateness of the hour the combat ended, he made camp uld only say positively that there IA of the rebels killed, but said he med the number was greater. and that there were many wounded The r. However, were carried away by the Is in their flight. He captured 30 es, 13 arms of various makes and took prisoner.
 mohg the horses captured were two foHmerly belonged to the Tenth reg {, 4nd among the arms there were tus3r. carbine and sabre belonging he federal army. In the saddle bags inc bf the captured horses were found iments of some importance.
 turing the fighting the lieutenant ,el of the Twentieth battalion was 4tly injured, and eight privates of renth battalion, 10 of the Twentieth, of the Ninth and eight of the Twelfth injured. The killed were two pri- f of the Tenth battalion, one of the tieth, two of the Ninth and eight e Twelfth. Three are missing
 No Truth in Reports
 ,ernment officials said tonight that
 was absolutely no truth in the re- from Fl Paso to the effect that the al troops lost 600 killed in an en- nent at Casa Colorado
 special to Ell Paso from Maria, Tex. )ished today, says that revolutionists increasing in numbers in the vicin- f Ojinaga, and that already there been four encounters between them federal troops. the most serious one lg occurred at Fl Mulato, a nearby on the Rio Grande, where there are to be about 800 rebels well provided horses and provisions. Ojinaga. gar d by about 200 men. is in daily ex- .tlon of an attack by revolutionists, have been encamped about the town several days. From reliable source dispatches continue. it is known that ps and ammunition have been smrg- across the river, probably from Val inc, Alpine and Maria. The same Ter in Ojinaga who has been selling ps to the federal authorities is said to been furnishing them to the ene-
 of the government. Among the i leaders operating in the vicinity are 1lo Hernandez, a Cuban newspaper who has been given the title of A,el. and Jose De La Luzzeto, who red an anti-government propaganda the recent elections.