The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-24
Huerta's Soldiers Retire
as Villas Army Ap-
proaches.
CAMP ESTABLISHED
SOUTH OF JUAREZ
Chieftain of Constitutionalists
Declares Only Over His Dead
Body Will City Be Retaken.
Provisional President Con-
vinced U. S. Will Not
Take Drastic Measures.
Especial TO Tho Times Dispatch.1

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch
|"ar"z. Men November o3.--when
sHo tcd"rals saw Pancho Villa and
his army Saturday they took fright
and ran Thus Juarcz was saved from
attack, Villas 5000 men are now
stretched across the country in n line
twelNes miles long. from east To
west. thirteen miles south of Juarez,
awaiting another attack and PREPARING
20 advance X the Federals fail
Ihis is the story of the rebel chief
tain himself as related TO day In hi.
headquarters in Juarez to which ho
Ietufhed this morning. accompanied BY
hodyGuard of forty men. Will,
says he returned 20 get food and
supplies for his men. and that hs
would rejoin them tonight
lr IN" Federnls take Iuarex il Will
DO over my dead body" he declared
emphat!caily. IF they do not attac,s
mo soon. ! viii nnnihilatc them or forco
them TO Surrcndcr from starvation. Tho
railroads are cut south of chihuahua.
anu they are starving. ! captured J,
re"crai deaertcr yesterday. and hc said
the Federal army Is without food and
that the mon have had no pay for !,
month, and that II Is necessary to locl5
thcm in the ears at night to prevent
them all descrting. This may be ono
reason why they refused to fight whom
! "ent out with my army Yesterday.
1T was getting toward dusk when w.,
Sricd the first Federal troop train ad
Nanclng towards us north of Terra
l'lan anca, about eighteen miles out OF
JuareH The train at once began to
pack the other way. While they claim
to have 800 men. the dcserter whom
captured tells mo that they have
about 1000 men only
Army Near Junrez.
As soon -osths-Liadersls refused ia
we were. just thirteen miles south Of
Juarez My army IS now stretched
across twelve miles OF territory from
east 10 west waiting FOR them N.n
WIZ never permit them to get closer TO
Iuarc2 unless they kill us all. Juares
and l2l Paso will be in no danger II
a battle is fought"
villa denies the story given out in
'inare: last night by his lleutenants
that tho rebels wrecked a troop train
OF the Federal advance guard south OF
Iuarez lie says there was fighting
All Of Friday night and Saturday
morning between the Fcdcrals and
some OF his men. under Rodolfo Fierro
at Samalayuca. thirty-two miles south
Of .Iuarez. and tina; as tho Fcderals
advanced. there was further lighting.
! hut his main army and the Federal
main body did not get Within rifle shot
of each other Saturday afternoon, be-
cause tho Fedcrals ran when they saw
the rebels approaching Ficrro, who
came into Juarez to-day with villa,
declared the i'cdcrnls used cannon ON
his men Yesterday, and that thcy.
seemed well supplied with artillery
Villa gave ii out Tonight that he
has reinforceomnis coming from tho
southwest and tho cast. and that they
Will arrive IN 4 day or
In Reply IN EedcrnIs.
Villas declaration that the Tcdcrala
would never take JuareZ except over
his dead body WAS in reply To Federal
agents. who declared that villn WAS
abandoning Juaro7. The Federal
agents declared last evening that their
troops would he in Iuarcz bv 10
o'clock last night. To-day they said
their army now surrounded .Iuarez on
three sides, and that the rebels knew
this and were retreatinG. They said
the rebalS had destroyed eight box
cars. eighteen -.l!onieters below JuarcZ
because or inability TO move them fur
ther. and that the rebel army. instead
of being drawn across the country
awaiting the Federal approach. was
retrcatins south.
Just rs Mexican money is divided H.,
two when il gets across the Rio c;rande.
before il becomes currency OF the land
50 Americans usually work the arlth-
metic upon Mexican statements divid-
ing, by two the force OF an army ~
'he death list OF All enemy in battle.
ana usually multiplying the number
~ "cad pN ABOUT ten. when reported by
"tieials OF the losing army Long as
soclatlon with Mexican official reports
nave taught Americans that this -
about the right proportion. if the facts
could he secured.