Evening journal., 1914-01-12
VILLA REBELS
NOW MOVE ON
MEXICO CITY
FederalS EvaCuate OjinaGa;
Army Takes Refuge on
American Soil
vICTORS CAPTURE
GUNS AND SUPPLIES
By Iho United Press.

By The United Press.
PREslDlO. Tex. jan 12-Cenerai
Pancho villa. whose rebel troops cap
ured Oilnaga Saturday night has al
ready begun his advance against Mex
leo City
Il was announced at Ojlnaga today
that 1900 C0nstifuti0naists left sun
day evening to march to Falomir. the
terminus of the Orient railroad, there
TO board four special trains and re-
turn to Chihuahua After feastng for
one week and being supplied with
new mounts TO replace those worn
out by tile Oiinaga campaign, these
men viii start for Torreon.
other rebels will follow them from
Oiinaga daily until only 800 are left as
"a garrison for the town.
"Wo are on our way TO Mexico
City" said General villa today eve
iIave 1000 men here and il will re-
quire a week TO get the last OF them
out and on the way TO where trains
await them.
Before going, however. we will
make sure there are no lurking bands
of Federals, who might attempt to
retake Oiinaga and use Il as a base
from which TO harass our lines OF
communication with the border We
lwill proceed TO Torreon which we be-
lieve viii now be evacuated by the
Federals without a fight
AT Torreon we will be Joined by
5000 TO 1000 fresh troops from Du-
, range and Laguna district and then
viii begin campaign against Monte
rey, Saltillo and San Luis Potosi. with
Mexico City with our ultimate object
BY recruiting as we go, we firmly be-
b lievo we will have an army of $4,000
TO 10000. with which 20 attack when
we reach the national capiIal-if il
has not been evacuated by the time
we get there"
II Is believed Generals Orozco
Salazar, Rojas and Carayeo. who es-
3 caped with 300 TO 500 Federal soldiers
during Saturday lights battle. must
|. be reckoned with before the trouble
Z in Northern Chihuahua can be said 20
e be ended. Reports were current here
a early today that Salazar and Orozco
i had been surrounded Ia the noun
2 tains west of Oiinaea. but there was
y no confirmation and The reports were
Al discrediiod
l- villa today denied there had beei
Sc All but few of the prisoners hav,
DE- Joined the Constiutionalist forces. the
n greater part of the army having es.
capped to the American side
,r There are $500 soldiers and refugees
he men. women and children in the concen
tration camp outside Of Presidio. All
lo are without shelter on bedding and hav'
al no clothing excepting that worn NheI
r. they fled peil-mell across the Rio Crand'
/, when Oiinaga fell Saturday night. Thcrl
4, is much suffering and sickness. but M
=, ~ deaths 80 far. The Red Cross surgconD
~ are caring for the sick and all the paci
trains of the United States troops her
are being used carrying food from Mar
10 Ga. IS miles.
General villa offered Major McNamee
Id the American commander. a herd of cat
n tle TO be butchered 60 provide food TO
III the refugees.
IN Genral Bliss, commanding the mill
&c tary department with headquarters a
ie. Fort Bliss has ordered all the civilia
refugees moved 10 Maria where they vii
be- near the railroad. The federal troop
Isl will be detained as prisoners until tn
he close of the war. This is said to be th
h. first time in the history of modern wal
iis fare that "a foreign nation has had ,
as problem of this kind to handle or whe
be such a large body of belligerents ha
on found asylum in a for, on country.
NJ The rebel chieftains announced toda
nj that their losses Saturday night were
killed and forty wounded and that thcr
were eighty-three federals slain and -
wounded. These figures are believe
an too low. a. there are nearly 500 wound
o. ed in the Red Cross Hospital here an
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