Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-12
SURROUND
REBEL GOVERNOR
AND 1000 MEN
MEXICAN ARMY OF 1000 CLOSING IN ON CARRANA At LAMpAzOS
NuEv0 LEON WHERE BLOODY BATTLE EXPECTED WITHIN FEW
HOURS ..S|NALOA REVOlTS AGAINST HUERTA
0jEDA LEAVES Aqua PR|ETA
TO RELIEVE kOSTERL|TzkY

Mexico City, Mex, March 12,-TWt
thousand followers Of Venustiano Car
ranZa, rebel governor of Coahuila' are
surrounded n the vicinity of Tampa
Hos, Nuevo Leon, by four thousand fed
eral troops, according to a statement
from the war department today, A
decisive engagement is expected with
| in few hours.
Generals Aubert, Blanquez, Anaya
and Davila. N command of the fedora
, forces, arrived in the outskirts OF
Iampazos early today. They are not
certain that Carranza is with his fol
lowers.
A dozen troop trains left Mexico
City for the north this morning.
Most of the troops went in the dlrec'
ton of Sonora. They included many
detachments of the auxiliary branches
of the service, besides a full battalion
of the 18th infantry, a machine gun
company ana battery with heavy
siege guns. An additional force of
three thousand regular troops ID to
leave this evening for Sonora, and by
Saturday the government hopes TO
concentrate total of 10000 men
against the Constituencies
simultaneously with the departure
OF this army for the north, the first
heavy movement of troops took place
III the country hitherto overrun by fol
lowers of Zapata. The detachments
thus sent into the state of Morclos in.
cluded troops under Colonel Manuel
.Jasso, from Santiago, 500 soldiers un.
300 under General Aguilar, from the
federal capital. The three columns
will undertake combined action and
the operations are to be carried out
with the greatest energy
The cutting of communications be
tween Hermosillo, the capital of the
state of Sonora, and the seaport of
Guaymas, on the Gulf of California,
has given rise to much anxiety in
Guaymas. according to messages re-
ceived here. Reporth indicate that
rebels numbering 1900 are fortified
in the neighborhood They are said
to be in possession of four rapid fire
field guns.
Guaymas has a garrison Of 4Q0 fed
eral troops. The Mexican gunboats
Tampico and General Guerrero, are
stationed there, as well as the Ameri-
can armored cruiser Colorado.
A bill has been passed by the
chamber of deputies providing for the
holding of presidential election in
July. Provisional President Huerta is
said to have agreed to this date
Nogales, Ariz., March 12.-Sinaloa,
Pacific coast state to the south of
Sonora. has revolted officially against
Huerta's national government and
named a provisional governor, report
ed persons arriving here today from
Hermosillo, the Sonora state capital.
They also report that the warlike
Iaqui Indians of Sonora, through their
chiefs, have volunteered to assist the
insurgent border state government in
ousting all of Huerta's federal soldiers
from the limits of the commonwealth
Ell Paso, Texas, March 12.--lf the
provisional government of Mexico in
tends to rush troops to subdue the an
tiHuerta uprising in Sonora, the west
ern 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 Huer-
ia, espousing instead the revolution
ary program of Emilio VasqueZ Gomez
the conditions about Parral and other
circumstances in Chihua
hua make 1t appear that General Ra
bag gos force of from 1000 to 5000 fed
erals can not move far from the. vicin
ity Of Chihuahua City.
Travellers arriving here today from
the west coast reported there was no
federal force in Sonora or SinO'oa to
move against Hermosillo.
The Sonora capital is held by more !
han 1000 Consttutionalsts backing
Up the stand of the state officials. |,
They have fortified the town and pos
;ess five machine guns Americans
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