New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-03
Carranza Leaves HermO-
sillo TO Join Villa in
Chihuahua City.
STARVING CITIZENS
APPEAL FOR RELIEF
Villas Chief of Staff, Accused OF
ENLIGHTENMENT, Thrown Into
Ell PaSO Jail.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune =


Juarez Mexico, Dec. THE rebel
forces Of the north made their first
concerted move Of the campaign
toward an assault on Mexico City to-
day, when General Venustiano car
rama. former Governor Of Coahuila
and chief of the Sonora revQlutionists,
started from Hermosillo with 300
Sonora cavalry troops TO join General
Pancho Villa in Chihuahua State.
General Villa plans to meet Car
rama in Chihuahua City, and it will
then be determined If their leader will
accompany them 10 Mexico City or will
return TO Juarez to establish the pro-
visional government here.
General Villa loaded his artillery on
two troop trains tonight to send them
10 Chihuahua. At s o'clock tomorrow
morning the rebel chief may leave the
state capital. taking with him all the
troops now in Juarez except about
eight hundred infantry. This was
stated by villa tonight as being his
present plan.
MY purpose will be-" said General
Villa, "to garrison Chihuahua and give
relief 10 the hungry there. Ny expert
ence has taught me that people must
eat I find that my army won when
well fed, fighting better than when
supplies are low. Therefore, before a
battle I always insist that my men eat
heartily. shall feed the people of
Chihuahua from my army stores and
leave a force with them sufficiently
large 10 prevent Federal attack in the
future.
"Ar the territory which we have
wrested from the Federals will be re-
tanned" Villa added. I'VE do not take
towns for the fun of fighting. and we
propose To hold to what we have"
Executes a Captain.
Following fight in dance hall, in
which one rebel captain was killed ana
another captain wounded, Villa had a
captain Of cavalry. Juan Cisneros' ex-
ecuted within an hour after the shoot
ing had occurred. This. it is declared
tx the only execution that has taken
place I'm Juarez since last Saturday.
On complaint Of General Villa, Colo
mel Juan y. Medina, his chief Of staff,
twice Mayor Of Juarez under the
Madero regime. and counted one OF the
most prominent revolutionists in
Northern Mexico, is in jail in FL Paso
1t is said tonight that while Medina
was arrested on the civil charge OF
embezzlement, he probably VIII be
turned over TO the United States army
as a prisoner Of war, on charges oil
smuggling ammunition.
General Villa asserts that Medina
left Juarez with $4,000 pesos belonging
10 the rebel army. Medina says that
he brought no money with him and
that he has quit the revolutionary
marty for personal reasons.
II is said in Juarez that VIVA ana
Medina had a violent quarrel last
night and that Villa Threatened 10 nave
his chief Of staff shot. villa did not
carry out MS lIItdl anu "'Niiu '''ii
disappeared from Juarez. His arrest
Was made on telephone advices that
charges of embezZlement would be
preferred by villa.
Lieutenant Colonel Medina Veyti
has been appointed to succeed Medina
as chief of staff. and Jose Velarde
has been made Mayor OF JuareZ. Me
dina will have his examining trial to-
morrow before a local justice OF the
peace, and Villa will be summoned to
attend as prosecuting witness. Should
he be permitted to cross it would be
virtually letting down the bars for
rebels TO come here at VIII. 1t is as
serted by army men.
Chihuahuans Want Villa.
An appeal to General Pancho Villa
to occupy Chihuahua City and give
protection to it from Federal domina-
ton and from bandits who infest the
mountains around the city was brought
to Villa in Juarez tonight by two cou-
riers who arrived In automobiles.
The appeal was from the people OF
Chihuahua, who for more than three
weeks have been practically without
food and In hourly dread Of lombard
ment.
uTba p,essaqa n Villa cail that all