The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21
SUPREME
IS FULLY ObEyEO
First Hand Reports From
Mexico in Statements Given
by Associated Press.

"Embroidering the salient facts OF
the successful constituencies cam
paign against TOrreon are a multitude
of incidents hardly less interesting
said Associated Press correspondents
who accompanied Gen. Villa on their
return to Ell Paso. Concerning
their statement the Associated Press
carried the following:
What struck one chiefly during
the campaign they said, was the
mixture of fear and confidence which
Villas name inspired in his followers.
Gen. Villa says he will shoot anybody
who cuts the telegraph wires by shoot
ing from the train called out an Off
Ger to soldiers on top OF q troop train,
who were improving their marksman-
ship by shooting at the insulators on
telegraph poles. Instantly the care
less firing ceased. Nobody doubted
that Villa meant what he said.
Death to DiSObey.
SEN this telegram at once said
a neWspape correspondent to a mill
tary operator in his field office under
a tree near the railroad track. L
can't senor,' was the regretful re-
sponse. Gen. Villa has just notified
us that no messages must go out until
further orders from him and he will
GitOOt uS IL VIC SCAO (l4S OIC SVSh
though it is approved by his private
secretary'-tO which there was OBJ
viOuSly no answer.
Tho camp at Verjel, just above
Gomez Palacio. was alive with sinis-
ter rumors. A man started to lead
his horse to drink from one of the
numerous irrigation bitches in the vi
cinity. Don't drink that water
don't let your horse drink it, came
a warning cry from a number Of SOL
diers. That water comes from near
TOrreon and it is poisoned by the Fed
erals. Two men and two horses drank
Of it this morning n died at once
line Of wounded from the first days
fight at Gomez Palacio. Previously
the campaign had been a sort of hol-
iday. But these pitiful evidences left
no doubt that this was war.
Courage On The Field.
Courage in the hospital was match.
ed by courage on the field by a will
great prize in death battle Never
were raw soldiers more easily turned
back from flight into the thick OF
, death and conflict. During the frs
, day light artillery and infantry attack
on Gomez Palacio the Federal fire
> ing badly for the Rebels. Men begar
! to leave the trenches and make theil
way to the rear.
: "All at once a Mexican boy ode OF
+ horseback through the Mesquite in tn,
. direction Of the rearward movement
;. 'Vuelva.' Go back) he yelled, AM
at the word the men faced the sho
n and shell from the south once NOR,
and all marched cheerfully back t,
the field they were about to abandon
just One Red Rose.
! I'm simple justice it must be sal,
: there were few evidences Of vandal
ism. The morning Of the entranc
into Gomez Palacio some soldier
rode up to a we'll kept cottage on tn
. ground of the soap factory. The pro
q prietor watched them anxiously. %
soldier drew in at the gallery, wher
y a magnificent vine was brilliant wit
red roses. He took one, waved
gayly to his companions and all rod
on, leaving the house owner aston
ished.
Through the whole campaign Win
. has been direct and simple in hi
methods. Torreon was taken by mai
q strength and tenacity. When wi
Torreon fall?' a newspaper correSpon
dent asked Villa at headquarters tn
day after the failure Of a night as
sault from which success had bee
expected. I don't know he said sim
ply. All I know is that the town
going to be taken before we quit