The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-04-10
VILLA FOLLOWING
FLEEING FEDERALS
REBELS ATTEMPTING AN ENvEus
OPING MOVEMENT, SAYS
REPORT.
U. S. RECOGNITION is ASKED
Movement Started on Border by Prop
erty Owners in Northern Mexico
in Behalf of General Carranza
-Huerta Denies Victory.

Juarez, Mex, April 6.-General VII
la has gone to take charge of his
troops at San Pedro, where they are
reported to have brought on an en-
gagement with the federals who evac-
uated Torreon.
This information was given out Of
hcially, and it was added that the reb-
els were attempting an enveloping
tie is still raging.
Effect Of Victory.
FL Paso.-The effect of the rebel
victory at Torreon was felt here in a
stiffening of the market for cOnstitu-
tiOnalist money and in the beginning
of a movement to organize foreigners
owning property in Mexico to appeal
to Washington to recognize the Car
ranza government.
The latter idea originated with for
mer Governor George Curry Of New
Mexico, but having placed the matter
in the hands of certain leading Demo-
Gratis to work out as they promised
to do, he expressed a desire to work
only in the ranks for the success of
the movement. General C%arran2a de-
clined to comment on the movement,
but information of it caused much
gratified comment in Juarez.
New Instruction Unlikely.
The movement is said to be signi-
ficant of a recently prominent senti-
ment that if the revolution is carried
to success. the counter revolutions
which, it has been predicted, would
follow would not materialiZe. In this
connection one of the most prominent
Americans doing business in Mexico
said that the greatest guarantee Of
peace, which he prOphesied would
follow rebel success lies in the fact
that the incomes Of the rich men for
merly able to finance %revolts. have
been depleted in the last few years
to an extent which would make it ex-
ceedingly difficult for a new insurrec-
ton Of any proportions to be financed.
Mr.. Curry said he was convinced
that foreign sentiment upheld the be-
lief that recognition of Huerta being
out of the question, the time has come
for FOREIGNERS to lend such aid to the
Carranza revolution as will help it to
a speedy conclusion.
Federal Loses $500.
Federal sy~mpathizers in this city
claim information to the effect that
the federals who escaped from Tor
reon number $500. AS they estimat-
ed VelascO's force at 5000 this would
indicate that in dead, wounded and
prisoners the Huerta forces lost $500.
The federals believe that Velasco
and the remnant of his army will at
tempt to join with the Monterey gar
rison, said to number 1000. General
Pab Gonzales, the rebel leader op-
Grating in that section, is believed to
have a following of 5000.
Huerta Denies Defeat.
MeXicO.-The government persists
in it's denial that Torreon has fallen,
characterizing the news as a pure
fabrication by rebels. Both Minister
of War Banquet, and Minister of the
Interior lgnacio Alcocer maintain that
the government is giving itself no
about the immediate safety
or Torreon. although admitting they
had no direct communication with
the city. Senior Alcocer offered in
support of his contention a telegram
from C%omoduran, emigration chief at
El Paso, dated April 1, authorizing a
denial OF all stories that Torreon had
fallen.