Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-13
Carranza''s 1000 Followers
Hemmed in by 4,000 Fed
eral Troops; Engage
ment Expected at Once.
SALAZAR REFUSES
TO ACCEPT HUERTA
Ex-Rebel Leader Leans To-
ward Gomez Revolution
ary Program; Govern
ment Will Have Trouble.

MeXlCO~ClIy, MoXlCO, MoECH1 q.
Two thousand followers of Vensuleano
Carranza, rebel governor Of Coahuila,
are surrounded in the vicinity of Lam
pazos Nuevo Leon, by 1000 federal
troops according to statement from
the war department today. A decisive
engagement lis expected within few
hours. Generals Aubert, Blazquaz, An
ava and Davile, in command OF the
federal forces, arrived in the outskirts
of Lampazos early today. They are
not certain that Carranza is with his
followers. A dozen troop trains left
Mexico City for the north this morn
ing. Most of the troops went I'M the
direction of Sonora. They included
many detachments Of the auxiliary
branches of the service, besides full
battalion of the seventeenth infantry,
a machine gun and a battery of artil-
lery with heavy siege guns. An ad-
ditional force Of three thousand regu-
lar troops Is to leave this evening for
Sonora and by Saturday the govern
ment hopes to concentrate a total OF
10000 men against the constitutions
alists there.
simultaneously with the departure
-of this army for the north, the first
heavy movement Of troops took place
into the country hitherto over run by
followers Of Zapata. The detachments
thus far sent into the state of Morelos
included troops under Col. Manuel
Jasso from Santiago, 500 soldiers under
General Javier from Puebla, and 300
men under General Higin Aguilar from
the federal capital. The three col
umns will undertake combined action
and the operations are to be carried
out with the greatest energy.
Prospect Not AIlurins.
Ell Paso, Tex, March 12.-If the
provisional government at Mexico City
intends to rush troops to subdue. the
anti-Huerta uprising In Sonora, the
western border state, it must be done
either by landing federal forces at
some California gulf port or moving
them from Chihuahua. But the recent
declaration of Inez Salazar, ex-rebel
general that he will not accept Huerta
espousing instead that revolutionary
program of Vasquez Gomez, the condi-
tions about Paral and other threaten
ing circumstances in Chihuahua make
it appear that General Rabaga's forces
of from 1000 to 5000 federals cannot
move far from the vicinity OF Chihua-
hua City.
While Chihuahua, the state which
promoted Madero's revolution, re-
mains quiet this is credited by many
as resulting largely from revolutionary
fatigue. Wearied by the protracted In
surrection which continued in Chihua-
hua even after Maderos victory the
rebels themselves appear unwilling to
continue their habit of contesting the
national government. Yet the old
Maderista element is strong in state
and in many ways has disregarded the
Huerta regime.
State Opposes Huerta soIdiery.
Travellers arriving here today from
the west coast reported there was no
federal force in Sonora or Sinaloa fit
to move against ) Hermoslllo. The
Sonora state capital Is held by more
than 1000 constitutionalists backing
up that stand of the state officials.
They have fortified the town and pos
sess i've machine guns. Americans
Just returned from Guaymas and points
to the south state that at the Sonora
gulf port there are not more than 200
Huerta soldiers while Culiacan, capi-
tai Of Sinaloa and Mazatlan, the Pa
cif1c coast port In the same state, hold
only about 300 federals each. At in
terror towns are still smaller garri-
sons, all of which combined could not
make a force, the tourists estimate, to
enter northern Sonora. Nearly every
province Of Sonora has risen to the
call Of Estate rights" to GUST the
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