The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-11
REV0LUTIONISTS ARE APPARENTLY .W0RSTED IN MEXICO
Federal Forces Freely Discuss
 Progress Of Events
NO WORD FROM REBELS
Latter Said to Have Lost 800
 in Yesterdays Fight
THE COMING BATTLE IN MEXICO

Distance between main forces at midnight Friday, forty miles.
 Leader of Government troops, Gen. eral VictOrianO Huerta.
 Leader rebel troops, General Pas cual OrOzcO, former ore wagon driver.
 Government troops number, 5000.
 Rebels number, 1000.
 Federal armament: Two batteries, thirty eight field pieces, 22 machine guns. Troops armed with MauSers and carrying 300 rounds of ammunf- ton each.
 Rebel armament: Machine guns un- known, five cannon, 1000 rifles of various makes, men carrying 15O rounds of ammunition each.
 Federals claim more big guns, and better equipment, with victory cer- tain.
 Rebels claim victory becanse fed- eral army Is composed mostly of re-
 Probable time of battle, today or Sunday.
 The stake-control of the northern half of Mexico.
 Peronal, Mexico. May 11.-3 am.) In the moonlight at this hour, Gen eral Huerta, commanding the main federal forces, is passing with his troops across the alkali wastes of Escalon. He expects, before the heat of the day, to meet the advance guard the great battle, which has been i'm pending for three weeks, and on which depends the fate of the revo- lution. In response to questions, Huerta said to the United Press corr respondent:
 Victory of the government in the coming battle is sure. In IS days the revolution will be ended, and I and my men will be in Chihuahua"
 Huerta's night march was made across stretch of the bleakest part of the Mexican desert. It would have the sunlight without great suffering. Huerta's men rested throughout Fri- day and started from Bermejillo at sunset.
 2 Ei Paso. Tex, May 11-In the now the desert near Bermejillo. Mexico where on Friday morning, General Huerta gave an interview over l. 600 mile wire to the United Press cdr respondent in Fl Paso, General Joa- Qu1n Tellez sat at a. m.. today be- side the operators table and gave a statement over the same wire to the United Press.
 At that hour General Huerta was thirty miles distant, having made a night march across the desert toward General Orozco's rebel troops. whom he expected to encounter before noon today. Tellez's statement follows:
 Friday morning, I came up with my troops to General Huerta, who last night left for the north I re. mained here to arrange details. The revolutionists are tired and hungry in the deserts. We sent oul cavalry against them, under Gene .'al Trucy them to flight. The revolutionists were Salazar's and were the second advance guard of Orozco's main body. I cannot give exact details because reports from all the various forces have not arrived.
 Our troops are full of spirit, and our equipment cannot be better. We have ammunition for many months of fighting, and many machine guns"
 All efforts to obtain news from the revolutionary forces were unsuccess- full, as strict censorship prevails in the revolutionary lines. The Uni- ted Press correspondent with Orozco was not permitted to send any mes- sages to the American border.
 The fighting referred to by General Tellez near Bermejillo yesterday, con- tinued until after dark last night ac- cOrding to advfces received in Juare3 after midnight. That Orozco's army mas naQ very IuuCa Iue WOrSt Oi IL thus far Is indicated by the censoring of rebel press dispatches to the bare mention being in progress. No details from the rebel side have been receiv-' ed. or If received have been carefully suppressed by Juarez officials. Fed erals in El Paso claim to have news of crushing rebel defeat in the two days of fighting, and in the battle near Monclova Thursday, General Aubert claims to have killed, and wounded more than 800 rebels, under Salazar. General Tellez, in his state ment put the killed at lover 100"
 SalaZar. and the remnant of his reached Escalon late yes- terday. One hundred of his men were disarmed to prevent rnutiny and the rest were hurried to the front. Rein- forcements were hurried to Orozco from all available points yesterday. but troops from Sonora and Durango, which had been promised him, did not arrive. Rebel commanders in Juarez insist the rebels drove the federaln from their entrenchments yesterday near Bermejillo, but give no details. Allen Not Sentenced