Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-17
Carranza and
 Villa Have Split
LATTERS MILITARY CHIEFS WILL
 FOLLOW HIS LEAD.
SIGN A ROUND ROBIN
General Villa Has Ordered Command CTS of Garrisons in Territory He Controls to Report at Once to Tor reon-Order Accepted OminousIy.

Fl Paso, Texas. June 16-General Villa rendered his resignation to Gen eral CarranZa within the last week, it became known tonight. To Villas message the cOnstitutlcnalist com mander-in- chief replied, asking who would succeed him. Following this Villas various military chiefs held a conference and sent a round robin" to Carranza. declaring that they would accept no other but Villa as their lead CT. The split of today resulted.
 General Villa ordered all command CTS of garrisons throughout the terri tory he controlled to report at once to Torreon- This order was accepted ominously by observers here. His tory of the PaSqual OroSZco rebellion against President Madero was revived. Orozo, as Villa was a leader of vol unteer troops of Chihuahua state and as a popular favorite led a revolution against the former president
 Fl Paso, Texas, June 16.-Reports that General Villa had resigned as commander of the northern military zone were partially confirmed here tonight. Carranza's offices at Juarez were confiscated by Villa supporters tonight. Similar cOnfiscations are au- thenticaily reported to have taken place at Chihuahua City and also at Torreon, where Villa remained today. Villa Supporter Takes Telegraph Office
 The bureau of information and the telegraph office at Juarez. in control Of Carranza officials, were taken oyer forcefully tonight by>soldiers under Colonel Tomas Ornelas, military com mander of Juarez, and a Villa sup porter
 Just after the bureau of informant on had announced to the press the receipt of message from the front above Zacatecas, Ornelas' soldiers entered the rQl92rAnh office and the h1IrQan and dered that no papers be touched. Ordered Not to Touch a Paper. An American newspaperman was seated in the information bureau when the soldiers burst into the room. The soldiers ordered Perez Abreu, in charge of the bureau, not to touch a paper. The same soldiers, in personal com mand of the Juarez commander, short ly before had taken over supervision of the telegraph office adjoining.
 The American finally slipped through the line of soldiers and arrived here.
 The action today followed conflicting reports from the south in regard to the success or failure of the troops under General Natera, Carranza's ap- pointee, in attacking Zacatecas.' From Natera official reports had said that the attack was progressing successful ly, while from other sources details were given of Natera's rout.
 Villa Remains at Torreon. General Villa in the meantime has remained at Torreon although ordered to proceed to the assistance of Natera by General Carranza. It was stated today by Carranza officials that An geles, the constitutionalist secretary of war, had left Torreon today with five thousand of Villas troops. including a full division of artillery. Natera had complained of lack of cannon. Villa remained today at Torreon, but was said to have begun a general move ment of his army toward Zacatecas. The information bureau at Juarez was instituted and sustained by Rafael Zubaran Capmany, Carranza's cabinet minister, who at present is represent ing the constitutionalist party at Washington
 ConstitutionaIist Agents Claim 1t Was Military Measure.
 Washington, June 16.-Constitution- alist agents here tonight said that the occupation of the telegraph office and information bureau at Juarez by Col onel Ornelas evidently was a military measure deemed necessary pending che outcome of the attack upon Zacatecas 1 They declared that while there might have been a disagreement between the military and civil authorities over the publication of despatches from the front announcing constitutionalist re- verses, it was hardly probable that either General Villa or General Car ranza knew anything about the mat ter personally.