The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-04
REBEL GENERAL ANNOUNCES PLAN OF GENERAL INVASION
 THROUGH THE SOUTH.
GREAT GAINS ARE MADE
Chihuahua Is to Be Occupied ana Made Stronghold and Gradually tho Consttutonalists Are to Work tn. til Country Is Captured.

Juarez, Mexico, Dee. 3.-A new era began in northern Mexico today. l. marked the peaceful occupation by the rebels of the territory abandon ed by Huertas federal troops
 With 2,000 rebels, General Fran cisco Villa, enroute from Juarez 10 the evacuated city of Chihuahua, pass ed through Ahumada, S5 miles south of the border, and camped at Monte zuma, 30 miles further south.
 Fise thousand more rebels will join him on the way and with d com bined force of 1000 men he will en- ter the state capital, there to es. tablsh what will be the temporary military headquarters of the consti. nationalist party.
 The departure of the rebel forces from Juarez with their equipment was made on four trains, a garrison of l,700 soldiers having been left behind to guard the border town As far as Ahumada, Villa has restored the telegraph line The railroad runs to Montezuma. where it is interrupt ed by burned bridges It is to be re- constructed within few days
 Whether General Carranza, the recognized head of the revolution also will 20 to Chihuahua, seemed to be in doubt. although Villa said h. e~1eoted Carrapzas forces to cross from Sonora to concentrate the men for operations further south
 When the rebels enter Chihuahua with the tattered Mexican flags, which they are carrying as symbols of their demands for a restoration Of constitutional government. they will have Zaeetecas as the nearest federal stronghold in the south It is to. ward that city that Villa insists he will march
 The flight of General Salvador Mer. cado the federal governor and com mander in chief, with all his officers and troops, after sending peace commission to Villa. whose answer he did not wait 10 receive, mak kes possible the rebel occupation of Chi. hnahua City without fight. The fact that Mercado sent commission to Villa through Federico Move the civil governor ad interim, was regard. ed bX the rebel leader as a mask to enable Mercado to get away
 So far the rebels and federals have had no parleys of any character and Villa said he thought Huertas off. Cers would not expect clemency from him, No word was received today from the fleeing federal generals and the band of civilian refugees The rebels expressed the belief that after escorting the civilians to the border the officers might retreat to Nueyo Leon state as Generals Orozco and Salazar are under indictments in the IInited States for violation of the neutrality laws.
 monterey and the few remaining federal stronghods in Nueyo Leon and other northern states, Villa said. would be left to local bands of rebels. He intends to direct his main army toward Mexico City,
 T will have 10000 men surrounding Mexico City about Christmas time, !" Villa said Our numbers will in- crease as we march soTthward, and by the time we reach the capital the people in the city will be ready to join us"
 X message received from Chihua- hua by a courier said the city was quiet and the residents. including the Americans were much relieved by the exodus of the federals. It was stat ed Mercado had been bankrupt for weeks and that the soldiers had been without pay for so long they threat pnnd n1utfnN