Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-11-29
Villas TROOPS ROUT
HUERTA'S MAIN ARMY
r EPO RTS REACHING JUAREZ,
MEXICO, TELL OF RETREAT
OF FEDERAL ARMY.
REBELS CAPTURE THREE TRAINS
Constitutionalists Appealed to Ameri-
can Red Cross for Aid in Treat
ing the Wounded Soldiers
Brought to Juarez.

villa rebel troops near TERRA
Blanca for the last TWO days have
been defeated and routed. according TO
an official message sent Tuesday
night by General Francisco Villa, com
mander OF the rebel forces, to the
rebel chiefs at Juarez.
General Villa said in the message
the federal troops We're in a "dSs
graceful retreat" to the south and that
his forces had captured all their ar
tillery and three OF the trains in which
they had come to the battlefield.
Fierce fighting was in progress
Tuesday night on the west flank of
the rebel troops south of Juarez, where
General Marcelo Caraveo, commander
of one of the federal columns. is re
ported making desperate attack on
this section of Villas forces in an at
tempt to break through to Juarez.
At the center and east wing of
Villas army the fighting seems to
have subsidized and only an occasional
shot is exchanged by the contending
forces.
4 train bearing six wounded reach
ed Juarez at night, bringing the total
number of wounded rebels being cared
for here to 11G. Mrs. Francisco Villa
has taken charge of the hospitals in
Juarez where the wounded are being
treated.
Reports which cheered the constitu-
tionalists in Juarez, emanating from
| General Villas headquarters in that
city. were that the federal forces were
about to be caught between two forces
/ of rebels; that 1900 Sonora rebels
were making for the rear OF the fed
erals and should be able to BEGIN a
flank attack: and that General Manuel
Chaos, rebel commander, from south
/ OF Chihuahua had skirted Chihuahua
| City. advancing on the rear OF the
federals and already has taken posses
sion of the federal lines Of communi-
| cation and transportation to Chihua-
| hua City.
After issuing these reports General
Villas chief OF staff, Colonel Juan n.
Medina, asserted the federals would
be prisoners in Juarez in a few hours.
The exact result of the action about
Zaragosa, where Salazar was report
ed to be surrounded by rebels and
fighting an artillery duel, is still in
doubt.
Juarez is practically empty of am
munition and supplies. Every cart
ridge has been sent to the front with
General Ortega, who, with 800 rein
forcements, left for General Villas
camp Tuesday evening.
Colonel Medina of the rebel forces
appealed to the American Red Cross,
through the local president, DR.. c. F.
Braden, for aid in treating the Juarez
wounded. DR.. Braden wired Washing
ton for permission to send aid across
the river
Ell Paso, Tex-A general federal at
tack, front, right and left flank, de-
livered practically simultaneously
Monday by Generals Salazar, Rojas,
Caravaeo and Landa, drove in General
Francisco Villas skirmish line and de-
veloped separate engagements below
Bauche on the west, at TERRA Blanca
on the front and along the border OPP
posite Belen and Ysleta, Texas, to the
east
The frontal attack on the constitu-
tionalists under General Villa began
at 4:30 o'clock about twenty-five
miles south of Juarez, according to an
American chauffeur who reached
Juarez at 6 o'clock Monday evening
on both sides was engaged. A report
that the federals were attempting a
flank movement from the west reach
ed Juarez about the hour the frontal
attack was reported. Two hundred
mounted men were dispatched to
mouth of the pass which entered the
town from the west Two reports
stated that General Villas western
flank engaged the federals at
o'clock.
These reports came from American
employees of the Mexican Northwest
ern railroad, who reached Juarez from
below Bauche. The reports stated that
the federals were first repulsed in an
attempt to break through the rebel
lines, but returned with reinforce
ments and a desperate battle was on
when the Americans left.
simultaneously with the report OF
the attack on the west came report
that the skirmish line of the constitu-
tionalists on the east of Belen, Texas,
was being driven in and the federals
were advancing on Juarez.
The remainder of the force at
Juarez was rushed to the region oppo-
site Ysleta and Belen, while additional
infantry reinforcements were hurried
to Rancho Flores to help check the
flank movement from the west.
Reports from all sides at 7 o'clock
declared that all the engagements
were general. At that hour word was
received from General Villa that he
was holding the federals back at the
front and ordered ammunition and
provisions rushed to TERRA Blanca.
Auxiliary hospitals are being fitted
up in Juarez, a large quantity OF med
ical stores being exported.
Before the developments Of the fed
eral assaults General Villa reported
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