Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-11
MEXICAN REBELS
ARE RETREATING
Evacuated Many Towns and
For Several Days Have
Been Retiring
.SALAzAR FELL BACK ON BASE
Lack of Water and Fever eau.
ses Sickness in Contending
Armies,

! (By Special Leased Wire to rSew Mexlcan)
Ell Paso, May II. Emilio Vasquez
Gomez, provisional president of Mex
leo, has beat it, He slipped out OF
Juarez during the night and is now
enroute back to San Antonio. Gomez
set up his provisional capital at Juare2
week ago today, in response to an
invitation of General Pascual Orozco
to come to Chihuahua"
Orozco Repudated Gomez.
Orozco repudiated him, however, as
provisional president, and after dicker-
ing for week, Gomez finally threw
up the sponge and left. Orozco says
he only invited Gomez to come and
consult with him, not to set up pro
Visional government. Gomez claimed
that the same rebel junta that created
Orozco asked him to take the provi-
sional presidency. Gomez left Juarez at
10 o'clock last night. but his absence
was kept a secret until this afternoon.
El Paso, Texas. May 11.-Fighting
between federal and rebel armies was
resnmed late yesterday afternoon, ac-
cordlng to kilograms received today.
General Pasqual Orozco was directing
the rebel forces in person from Yermo,
fourteen miles north of Conejos, where
his advance guard now is located and
twenty eight miles north of Peronal,
Headquarters of the advancing feder-
ais.
General Inez Salazar. who was de-
feated by General Trucy Aubert at
Carmen rejoined the main rebel army
at ConejoS last night.
Dispatches Censured.
General Orozco issued orders that
correspondents with the rebel army
should not go south of Escalon and in
dications are that all news is being
censured sharply. vt appears certain
that rebels have bee,l driven north as
several days ago they claimed to have
occupied Peronal, where the federals
now are maintaining headquarters,
Instead of being on the defensive,
the government troops have within the
last twenty-four hours, pushed the at
tack vigorously, forcing the rebels
northward nearly twenty miles to
Conejos, about 200 miles south of Chi
| huahua.
Liberal Forces Falling Back.
! Peronal and other towns occupied
by the liberal forces within the week
: have been evacuated These facts be
came known early today when tele
graphic interview was arranged be-
| tween General Joaquin TelleZ at the
staff headquarters of the federal
troops north of Bermejillo and an AS
sociated Press representative here. 1t
was learned that since early yester
/ day when communication was estab
eral Victoriana Huerta, the fedora
commander-in-chie the latter had ad
vanced nearly thirty miles. Huerta al
daybreak today was near Peronal, anc
his outposts were north toward Cone
| jos. Bringing up the rear are the
forces of General Rabajo, while off to
ward the northwest near Sierra Mo
iada. General Trucy Aubert with 4,OO(
men threatens to come due east to Els
Gallon to flank the main body of the
! insurrectos under Orozco.
Federals Number 10000.
The federal forces now number
nearly 10000 men. With reserves, i
is estimated that altogether about IS,
900 men are spread over the deser
within radius of seventy-five miles
The moon Illuminated the region mos
of the night, and the government
troops crept cautiously northward
Shortage of water and food, and gen
eral unsanitary conditions are havins
effect on both armies. Fever amons
the soldiers is prevalent.
SaIazar Fled.
The maneuvers of the last twenty
four hours indicate that General Sala
zar, the rebel officer next in command
to Orozco, was driven back and closely
pushed by General Aubert, all of thu
way from Cuatro Cienegas to Sierr;
Mojada. Salazar fled back to Orozco!
base at Escalon, and it was reported
at the federal camp that he wal
wounded. General Huerta, the fedora
chief, reached the front last nigh
near Peronal. But his camp could no
be reached by wire. General Telle
was last in touch with him at mid
night.
Rebels Exhausted, Says Federal.
"The enemy are exhausted and hun
gry," said General Teller over th'
wire from the box car telegraph offic
in his camp early today.
"They intended first to get behin
us going east to Cuatro Cienegas, bu
the opportune arrival of my BRAY
comrade, General Trucy Aubert intel
cepted them, causing a loss of NOR
than one hundred dead. They wer
routed shamefully, and still are be
ing pursued.
FederaIs Fight Confidently.
"The enemy likewise were beate
at ZaragoZa and Lahuillo on the sam
day. We found many of their dea
and wounded as we advanced today
They left behind many horses an
in their fight abandoned much an
munition. We lost about ten or twev
killed and few wounded. Our inter
tion is to press northward. Our troop
are full of spirit and their equipmen
could not be better. We have twenty
five pieces of heavy artillery, besid
many machine guns and ammunitio