Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-27
REBELS ACTIVE
But ALWAYS
Lose
50 SAYS REPORTS FROM MEXICO
CITY IN TELLING or RECENT
ENGAGEMENTS. TS.---FEDERALS WILL
ORGANIZE LANCER CORPS FOR
SERVICE AGAINST REBELS.
Lind Wires CODE
MESSAGE TO BRYAN

Mexico City, Mex, Nov 27.-Over
fifty rebels were killed yesterday in
the course of three sharp engagements
between force of 400 revolutionsts
and body of federal troops under
Colonel Celso Aguilar in Tlaxoala. ac.
cording to adyices received at the war
office.
The rebels, who had committed
many depredations in the vicinity re-
Gently, were discovered by the fed
eral troops at San Damian Texoloc.
For over an hour they resisted the at
tack, but were finally driven in the
direction of Sa n Andres Cuamilpa,
where they made a second stand.
After another stubborn fight, the re-
bels fell back on the town Of San Die
go and dispersed only when their am
munition was exhausted.
Fifty three bodies of rebel soldiers
are said to have been found on the
battlefield while the federal loss is
reported as having been insignificant.
A column of federal troops com
manded by General Rubo Nayarrete
was ambushed yesterday by strong
body of rebels near Santa Cruz, while
moving from Monterey toward Ciudad
Victoria The federals were caught
in a ravine by the rebels, who poured
in heavy rifle fire from the hillside.
The rebel troops were eventually
driven off, leaving some seventy dead
on the field. The federal commander
admitted that twenty of his men were
killed.
Another rebel force yesterday sack
ed the town of San Dionisio, In the
state of Puebla. They did not even
spare the church, which they looted
after killing the sacristan. Such
thing is upssual, churches ard priests
generally being respected by the raid
ers.
A dispatch from San Luis Potosi to-
day says trains are running as far
north as Vanegas where the federal
troops are concentrated. Communl'
caticn. however, is interrupted further
north, where the rebels are reported
to have dynamited some trains and
are still in command of the railroad.
A corps of lancers for service
against the rebels in the north was
authorized by the Mexican war offlce,
which today commissioned two young
officers to form a body of these
rrl, off rnaopflV returned
from France and the lances for the
troopers are said to have arrived al
ready from Germany. War depart
ment officials believe the lance Will
prove more effective than the sabre
Situation Unchanged.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, Nov. 21.-The
situation at Tampico was unchanged
according to a report received here
from Larence A. Miller, U. S. Consul,
A long code message from John
Lind and Rear Admiral Fletcher to
Secretary Bryan was received at the
American consulate here by naval
wireless this morning and was at once
forwarded to Washington.
Refugees Arrive From Tampico.
Galveston, Tex, Nov. 27.-Nlnety
refugees from around Tampico who
arrived here today on the steamer At
lantic, said conditions were steadily
growing worse there.
When they left Tampico six days
ago constitutionalists were reported
ready to attack the port and had al
ready occupied the surrounding coun-
try with disastrous results to the
property of many of the inhabitants.
J. LATER, a ranchman, said that
it had become impossible to make
even a living.
Crops, if grown, cannot be market
ed" he said. "They fall into the
hands of constitutionalists or federals
or escaping these, the bandits get
them"
Few of the refugees required finan-
cial assistance, though they said they
expect to lose all of their holdings in
Mexico. There were "a Mexicans in
the number