The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-22
VILLA DEPENDS
UPON GOOD WILL
OF THE PEOPLE
Says Usurper Huerta VIII Be
Swept Away by Public
Opinion; VIII Continue
to Fight, However.
REBELS WILL SOON
ATTACK TORREON
Army Of $4,000 Men, With
80 Cannon, 30 Machine
Guns and Hand Grenades,
Will Attack Federals.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Jan. 21.-" 1t
will soon be shown that the United
States has not waited in vain IN the
belief that the Huerta government IS
slowly crumbling,n said General Fran
cisco Villa today,
''With the northern division of the
Huerta army imprisoned in the United
States aud with General Jose Refugio
Velascos federal troops trembling at
Torreon, the only point they now hold
in the north, it will not be long before
the usurper Huerta will be swept away
by public opinion. Al first it was only
our arms that brought us victories, but
now the people of Mexico are convinced
of the seriousness of the revolution.
Our strength is growing daily. We are
finding that popular approval is as Ell"
fective as bullets.
Fighting to Continue.
"But we are not forgetting .hat bull
lets are still necessary. The fighting
will continue. Our success at OJinaga
in pushing the federal division into the
United States has had the effect Of a
tonic on our soldiers.
80 / am convinced that the prospective
battle near Torreon will kuock another
prop from under the tottering throne
of Huerta The federas are aware
that they must put up vigorous fight
there or their cause is lost Once we
90 south Of Torreon every city between
us and Mexico City will fail The peo-
pie there have been kept in ignorance
OF the extent of the revolution and
when they see our great numbers they
will join us, for in Mexico as else
where success is with the successful.
Confident of Victory.
'The federals Will not last long at
Torreon. We are going to approach
them with an army OF 5000, the larg-
rst revolutionary corps called together
in this revolution. We shall lombard
the fedcrals with thirty cannon, 1orty
machine guns and hand grenades, 1t
VIII he bitter for the federals 10 learn
that they arc being assaulted with
weapons VIC captured from them Mt
Dlinaga and elsewhere. Huerta little
thought when he sent his troops north
ward that he was sending ammunition
20 us.
''Wc already are concentrating our
troops north of Torreon. I will lead
the assault General Torribio Ortega
will he second in command. The at
tacking line will be reinforced by
troops at Jimincz and at other points
along the railroad.
Message of Peace.
JUAREZ, Mex. Jan. 2l.-Two OF
the greatest living Spanish writer's to-
day csblcd their wishes from Madrid
that peace soon would nc restored in
Mexico. The messages were addressed
io General carranza, bmt in the alb
sence Of the latter they were held for
Genera Villa
i "cre2 Galdos, the Spanish poet,
"H wish that my voice today
~r voice Of all Spain. 1t would
.ay e, word-'P Peace. -
lose Echeearay. the dramatis., said L
''Thc sons of Spain beg their brothers
of Mexico 10 end the struggle with n
fraternal embrace
General Villa, who was TO come to
JuareZ today, was detained in Chihua.
hua.
War Munitions Seized.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 2l.-Six thou
sand Shake caps and as many car
tridges said to have been intended for
the Mexican constitutonaist army,
have been seized here by United States
officials, a warrant was issued today
for the arrest Of II. Rivers. pur-
chasing agent for General Venustiano
Carranza. charging him with an at
tempt to export munitions of war into
Mexico.
The cartridge belts which came with
the caps in nine large packing cases
consigned from New York, are of the
type discarded by the United States
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