Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-01-16
U. S. SOLDIERS SHOT
MEXICAN REBELS FIRE ON CAV.
ALRYMEN WHEN THEY
CROSS BORDER.
0JINAGA TAKEN BY VILLA
Federals Cross Lire and Surrender t0
Major MeNsmee-3oo Are Executed
by Victorious General Without
Court. Martial.

by Victorious General Without
court.Martlsl.
Naco, Aria, Jan. a3.--Mexican rebels
commanded by General villa fired
upon four troops OF the Tenth United
states cavalry while they we're across
the border On Sunday. Two OF the
cavalrymen were wounded and all
four were arrested by the rebels and
held until their immediate release was
demanded by Captain Tompkins, com
mauder Of the border patrol here. The
incident aroused intense feeling on
both sides OF the border and more
trouble is looked for.
Preside, Tex, Jan. lS.--The Next
can federal army with its nine gener.
ais evacuated Ojinaga, Mexico, and
the triumphant rebel forces under
Gen. Francisco villa occupied the vii.
lage on Saturday.
Defeat OF tho federal army az this
point marks the most important rebel
victory of the present revolution. II
leaves the rebels in possession prac'
ideally Of all the north of Mexico.
General Castro and General Merca-
do OF the federal regulars saw that
Ihe assault was to be nothing less
than a massacre. The federals had
left only so rounds of ammunition for
each man. Generals Castro and Mer-
cado therefore gave the order 70
evacuate.
All the federal soldiers and their Of
'ticers who could scramble to the
American side did so The others ran
In all directions. Gen. Pascual Oroz.
co, the commander of federal volun.
teers, who was threatened with sum
mary execution by Villa, was. the first
70 cross. 1t was believed he escaped
INTO the Texas mountains.
None OF the wierd scenes in the
moonlight while the horde of rebels
was pouring into Ojinoga and the fed
erals were rushing out in disorder was
more intensely pathetic than that OF
General Mercado himself command
at Of the federal garrison, who ap
peared at the river banks and in
formed an orderly Of the United
States army that he wished asylum
n a foreign country. He was taken
AT once TO Major McNamee, command
ing the United States patrol, who
held him pending orders from Briga-
lier General Bliss.
For five hours the sharp flashes of
me rebel fire had been seen drawing
closer to the federal entertainments.
The whole scene was bathed in 4 /
moonlight, partly obscured by dust
and powder smoke. The country about
Diinga is mostly desert, with little
20 sustain life. Without food the i'm
Doverished federals would be unabl"
10 proceed any great distance.
At midnight there reigned among
ne victorious rebels a scene of mer.
-iment. Fires we're built, such music
as could be improvlsed was heard
and crowds of the rebel soldiers, still
srimy with the smoke of battle. sur.
rounded General Villa.
The last scenes In the capture OF
Ojinaga by Francisco Villas rebels
we're enacted on Sunday villa had
taken more than 300 prisoners during
The mad rush following evacuation Of
the fortrese. Many captives were
identified as volunteer members OF the
Orozco and Salazar commands and
svery one of these was executed
shortly after daybreak without the
formality Of court-martial.
City OF Mexico Jan. ia plot TO
kidnap American Charge O'Shaugh.
messy and his wife by holding up a
train was behind an attack OF rebels
on the Mexican railway. said a fed
ersl officer on Sunday. Information
obtained by federal spies from rebels
along the railway enabled the
O'Shaughnessys TO escape running
into the danger, Huerta has fur
nished sufficiently formidable escort
20 safeguard Mr. O'Shaughnessy in re-
turning from Orizaba to Mexico City. !
Possibility OF the landing OF British
troops in Mexico was brought to the |
front on Sunday by the action OF Sir
Lionel Garden. British minister, after
the American charge d'affaires, Mel |
son O'Shaughnessy had been tied up
y the dynamiting of a train on the /,
Mexican railway between Vera Cruz
and this capital. Sir Lionel made .
personal representations TO President |
Huerta and insisted on better pole .
ing OF the railway, which is British I
ut