The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-08-26
AUERTA FORMS BATTLE LINE
IN A FIGHT AT TETiLLAS TWELVE
REBELS WERE KILLED.
The Reports of Sackina of JojutIa
and IxtIa Are Confirmed-Mer-
chants Lose Heavily.

City of MeXico.-In an encounter
Sunday night at Tetillas, in which
the forces of General Huerta beat
back strong advance of the Zapat
lists, the main body of the fedora
command arrived in sight of Yaute
pee, town of 5000 inhabitants be
tween Cuautla and Cuernavaca, where
the first battle of the Morelos cam
paign will occur unless General Ma
dero can arrange an armistice. Gen
eral Zapata is at Yautepec at the
head of his men and General Maderc
reached the town in the early after
noon by a special train from Cuautla
Madero proposes to confer with the
federal commander and if possible
stop the advance. Twelve rebel dead
were found on the field after Sunday
nights encounter at Tetillas. This
was undoubtedly due to the effective
work of the rapid fire guns and the
mountain artillery which was used
during the engagement A lone bandit
who fired on the Twenty-ninth bat
talon was executed. The federals suf-
fered no losses during the fighting.
President de la Barra himself is au.
thority for the statement that Gen
eral Huerta has orders to occupy
Yautepec. 1.-THE government is dis
posed to do all in it's power to avoid
unnecessary bloodshed, but General
Huerta has orders to occupy Yaute-
pee and if Zapata's men oppose this
advance battle will be unavoidable" "
he said. Reports from Morelos indi-
cate that Zapata's men have got be-
yond the control of their own leader
and Madero as we'll, and that peace
full arrangement is impossible.
A force of rurales will be sent to
and Vera Cruz. General Figuero, who
has 1000 men mobilized at Iguala,
state of Guerrero, to the south of
Morelos, has been ordered to advance
with all speed and garrison the towns
of Jojutla, Puente de Ixtla and neigh
boring villages from Chalma on the
west. The garrison of rurales has
been ordered to proceed to Tetela, not
far from Puente de Ixtla, on the east
General Casso Lopez has strong
force at Jonacatepec, SO that Zapata
is completely surrounded.
General Madero's charges that Cen
eral Huerta is working for General
Reyes in attempting to produce q
state Of war In More1os and show
that Madero is not capable of hand
ling the situation, is giving an even
more serious aspect to conditions in
Morelos. The fact that he made di-
rect charges to the president adds to
the seriousness of the situation and
has infuriated the followers of Cen
eral Reyes. The mixing of politics
has made the situation doubly diff
cult for the government to handle.
The reports of the sacking of Jojutla
and Ixtla, in the southern part of
Morelos, are confirmed. Merchants
of Jojutla lost goods of the estimated
value of 100000 pesos when 800 Zapat-
lists entered the town and shot it up
in wild west fashion, afterWard pro-
ceeding to rob the business houses.
Reports from Guadalajara, state of
Jalisco, tell of a fight between rurales
and bandits at Yurecuaro, where there
is an American colony. Five bandits
were killed and ten captured. The
out of the gang was due to
American Consul Magill at Guadala-
lara taking up complaints of Ameri
cans with the state department..