New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-28
Goes to Chihuahua, Where
Huerta Plot is Said To
Be Brewing.
REBEL LEADERS ON
EVE OF BREACH
Victor of TOrreon Has $4,000
Men, It Is Asserted, Who Will
Remain Loyal.
I BY Telegraph TO The Tribune

Pancho Villa left Juarez to-day for
/ Chihuahua City to check r. revolt
which General Venustiano Carransa, It
| IS alleged, has started among Villas
commanders.
Information reached villa this morn
ing that Carranza had taken advantage
of the absence of the rebel warrior TO
spread discomfort among his officers
and men in an effort to rally them TO
/ Carranza's support, and that plct
had been formed TO make General Ma
clovio Herrera commander Of the rebel
army General Manuel Chao is said to
| be implicated IN the plot.
/ It is admitted by Villas friends that
the breech between the victor Of Tor
reon and the first chief OF the revolu
tion has reached crisis. villa has
strongly criticised Carranza for the
note he sent to President Wilson. and
but little of his real criticism has been
made public It is known that he
spoke plainly. even threateningly, 70
the first chief in kilograms.
Carranza has fallen into the trap
laid for him by Huerta, Villas friends
say. He has started revolt with the
idea that rebels generally DO not like
Villas friendliness for the Americans,
and ne expects Villas whole army TO
turn from him unless that rebel war
rior changes his attitude, but rebels
in Juarez say Carranza is playing with
fire; that Villa has more firm hold on
the rebel army than Carranza has any
idea Of, and that the 1,5OO men Car
rama brought from Sonora with him
will be needed by the first chief soon
after Villa begins Strengthening out
matters in Chihuahua.
1t is known in Juarez that villa
went south in haste and in anger. II
is known that he has little love for
Carranza, and it is believed that
clash which will mean the overthrow Of
either Carranza or Villa will occur
when the two leaders meet.
The Carranza-Huerta-C Chao plot
against Villa has been forming for
days, It Is learned. IL has been car
ried on energetically in the rebel camps
at Torreon and San Pedro and has
been pushed in the rebel camp at Mon
terey and around Tampico. and anti
American sentiment has helped 10
make II widespread.
/ villa learned OF II this morning when
he heard that secret agents Of Car
rama had started an attempt 10 spread
discomfort in the Juarez garrison. villa
/ has 1900 men at Torreon and San
/ Pedro. His friends say II Is impossi
BILE for any one to make them turn
against the former bandit. They have
/ the most absolute faith in Villa az
/ leader and would obey him to man II
/ he should order them to Join forces
with the Americans or make an inva-
sion OF American territory. They
would do either quickly. according to
rebels who are Of them and who know
them.
| II IS believed in Juarez that villa
/ has already ordered his army to move
from Torreon and San Pedro TO Chi
huahua and that he will force Car
rama out or start conflict which will
/ involve all rebel forces in Mexico.
Rebels in Juarez insist that villa is
sincere I'm the stand he has taken in
the American crisis and that ne has no
idea OF changing his position. Villa
before leaving to-day sent the follow
ing by telegraph and by couriers to all
rebel commanders and to ali rebel gar
risons:
Respect and show every courtesy to
citizens OF the United States. Give
assistance"
When villa left Juarez he took with
him a carload of ammunition which Is
/ believed to have been smuggled TO him
from the American side. His absence
removes the restraint on the thousand
OF more rebels In the Juarez garrison.
and steps have been taken on the
American side IN anticipation of rebel
squads firing across the border at
/ American troop patrols.
/ Shooting OF this character has been
reported from points below FL Paso.
but always at one or two Americans
who were riding along the river bank.
VILLA poyy has 1UT carloads of cotton
/ in Juarez which was seized from Span
/ iards at Torreon. The cotton has been
unloaded and placed in such position
that Il serves for breastworks for the
robels I'm case OF attack from the Amer
lean side
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