Evening star., 1915-01-25
CLAIMS THE DEFEAT
+. OF VILLAS TROOPS
Carranza Agency in Washing
ton Also Alleges Capture
of GuadaIajara.
SECOND LARGEST CITY
IN MEXICAN REPUBLIC
q. s. Objects to Applying Agrarian
Decree to Foreigners-Consular
Agent Carothers Safe.

Dispatches to the Carranza agency to-
day claimed the rout of Villa troops at
Guadalaj jara, second largest city in Mex
leo, and its capture by Carranza forces
after several days of severe fighting.
The statement given out by the Car
rama agency follows:
Vera Cruz reports that the steamer
| Progreso arrived yesterday from the
south with 500 Yaqui's, who left i'm
mediately 10 join Gen. Obregon at
Puebla.
Eel Paso reports that General DIE
guez and Murquia took Guadala1ara
Yesterday after severe fighting for & ssv-
manded by General Julian Medina.
The general offices of the Mexican
railway moved yesterday to Aguas-
calientes and later will be brought to
Torreon. Arturo Elias. Huerta's form
er consul general in the United States
is here claiming to represent peace
movement among Cientif1co followers
to obtain permission for all former
federals and Cientifico's to return to
Mexico"
Agrarian Decree Discussed.
The United States made representa-
tions today to Gen. Carranza against
the application to foreigners of the
agra-ian decree recently issued by him
the full text of which has just reached
the State Department from Consul Can
ada. at Vera Cruz.
Gen. Carranza declares in his pre-
amble to the decree that 1t was put
forth because OF the probable neces-
sity of restoring to the people the lands
of which they have been despoiled, as
an act Of elemental justice. and as the
only effective form of cementing peace
and establishing the welfare and bet
terment Of our poor, without clashing
with the interests of the persons now
holding the estates in question:.
Consular Agent Carothers informed
the State Department today from
Aguascalientes that there was no basis
for recent rumors that he had been
shot or that friction existed between
himself and Gen. Villa. He added t6zt
with the Mexican Leader. M. r.-GarUths
ers, who had heard of the various
rumors in Aguascalientes, said they
may have had their origin in recent
escape he made from injury in a rear
end train collision.
Denies Attack on Tampico.'
Eliseo Arredondo, head. Of the Car
rama agency here. has issued a state
attacked or that Zapata had checked
City. He declared. that dispatches from
Vera Cruz informed him of a battle
Saturday on the Mexican and Inter-
oceanic railway. in which the Zapata
forces were defeated, and three loco
motives and war supplies captured. The
following dispatch from Vera Cruz al
so was given out by the Carranza
agency:
"When Gutierrez left Mexico City he
was accompanied by Gems. Blanco and
Robes, Jose Vasconcelos. Carlos Do
minguez, Felicitos Villareal and AL
manza After reaching Pachucah. Ro-
bles and Almanac were put under ar
rest as Villista spies"
Enrique c. Llorente, Washington rep
resentative of the convention govern
ment said both Dominique and Villa
real were still in Mexico City. AS to
Robes and Almanac, the former OF
whom was secretary of war to Cutter
rez, the above dispatch Is in line with
other reports to the effect that Robles
was compelled to accompany Gutierrez.
and has been a prisoner ever since.