The Washington herald., 1914-11-13
cARRANZA ESTABLISHES
CAPITAL AT CORDOBA
coNTINUED PROM PAGE ONE.


~1he local constitutionalIst agency"
reads the statement .'recelved ofacial
Information from Mexico City that Gems
Alvaro obregon. Pablo Gonzales. Anto-
MO VIllareal, Eduardo Hay, Lueio
Blanco. Pablo de la Cara, Andres Sau-
cedo, Francisco Mariei. Alveiardo Mem
chacas and 2. Campos yesterday for
maIly pledged their alliance 10 Carranza
and expressed their united determination
TO resist the efforts OF Eulaiio Cutter
rez, chosen provisional president by the
Aguas Calientes convention to unseat Car
ranza as head Of the executive power OF
the nation-"
Gonzales with villa
II this announcement Is true It Is OF
extreme Importance. for Il indicates that
CarranEa viii have considerable hght-
Ing force in the field and that he will
be supported by generals who are ac-
customed to Villas methods Of warfare
A dispatch from Aguas Calientes ttonight
says that Gen. Gonzales, one Of the most
powerful leaders. has Joined forces with
Villa.
Washington oficlaIs would not be sur
prtsed II these generals had formally
declared their ALLEGIANCE TO Carranza, for
II Is believed that jealousy of villa viii
prompt many to this course The num-
Der OF troops which these eleven gen.
erals. together with Carranza, can COM
mand Is uncertain, but on paper Car
rama has Insisted that he has 10000
men,. Villa has laid claim to 10000. but
Is II likely that both statements are
greatly exaggerated.
The news OF the support that has come
to CarTanza and the actual beginning OF
hastilities cast gloom OVER adminIstra-
ton officials. who have been Hoping
against hope that the Mexican situation
would clear and justify the Presidents
policy Of ''watchful waiting" I: Is ac-
knowledged now that Washington off,
cials would not be surprised At almost
any development in Mexico, and again
the talk Of enforced intervention is be-
ginning to be lizard.
FIghtInE at Leon.
The State Department has received con-
firmation Of reports that actual hostili-
have begun, with an encounter at Leon
between villa troops and Carranz1 forces.
Leon is between Agas Calientes and Que
retaro. which Is expected to be the point
Of chief resistance upon the part OF Cat
ranZa's forces to the troops moving
south toward Mexico City.
Meanwhile. no steps are being taken by
the administration TO proceed toward the
evacuation Of Vera Cruz, and there is
every indication that the withdrawal Of
the American forces Is postponed tndeh-
niteIy pending further developments in
Mexico. Gen. Funston telegraphed Sec
retary Garrison yesterday that he had
learned that newspapers in Mexico City
were publishing extras quoting him
Funston) as declaring that the Ameri-
can forces would evacuate in a few days.
The general informed Secretary Garrison
that he had made no such statement.
Announce His Defiance.
Carranza yesterday authorized his
agents here TO make public this note of
defiance to Villa:
''Hostilities have opened between the
forces Of the Aguas Calientes convention
and its so-csIled government and the
present legal government Of which / am
the chief executive.
In view Of this fact you make make
known that I will have no further deal
ings with the said convention. Gutierrez.
or any of the other rebels backing him.
have notified civil and military au-
thorities OF the country that they are
not to recognize any other authority ex-
cept that issuing from the plan Of Guade-
lupe, OF which am the first chief in
charge of ths executive power OF the
nation"