New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
Refugees Arriving at Cuba
Tell of Sacking of
ProgresO.
CARRANZA ATTACKED
FROM ALL SIDES
He FOrtifies Vera Cruz with
Barbed Wire and
Trenches.

Havana, March 20. - The Cuban
cruiser Cuba arrived here to-day with
refugees from Progreso, State OF Yucca
tan, Mexico, to which port the warship
had been sent to extend aid to Cuban
citizens.
The Cuba had 437 passengers on
board, including 33 persons who were
transferred from the United States
cruiser Des Moines, which was lying
off Progreso.
Almost all the refugees the Cuba
brings are Mexicans, including some Of
the richest men in Yucatan, and more
than half Of the total number are
women and children.
The refugees travelled from Merida
| to Progreso, port of the former city,
on a special train. They report that
Immediately after their departure from
Merida followers of General Carranza
! entered the city and began sackinS 1t.
They also declare that CarrauZa ad-
herents were burning, sackins and
shooting Unfortunately throughout
| the State of Yucatan.
The French Consul at Progreso and
his family were among the refugees
arriving here to-day.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington, March 2O.-The CAM
p.ign for the elimination of General
| Carranza has ecome more general IN
Mexico. Reports, official and unofficial,
| received in Washington to-day indlcat-
| ed that at numerous points IN the re-
| public battles were impending, while
| the most significant news of all came
| officially from Vera Cruz, and related
! that the Carranza forces at that port
were fortfying against an attack by
| shore from the northward of the city.
Within three kilometres of the town
on the northward side barbed wire en-
tanglements are being constructed and
intrenchments dug. The line of de
| fences extends from the shore line back
TO and across the railway leading in
land to the capital. The belief in Vera
Cruz is that following the probaDie
canitulation of General Pablo GonZal"s 5
| force at rampico the Villista army VIII
begin . movement southwark, with the
temporary headquarters OF General
Carranza as its objective.
Details OF lne lcCcnI HSHtlHS opNNS
Monterey were received to-day IN a
letter from General Filipe Angeles,
commander at Monterey. A large Car
ranzista force, marching to attack
| Monterey, was surprised near Paredon
and defeated with heavy loss. On the
following day another Carranzista
force. attempting to attack the city
from the north and east, was repulsed
after a severe artillery fire. Perfect
order now prevails throughout the
Monterey section, General Angeles
added. ,.
Charles A. Douglass. of Washington,
who has been the legal representative
Of the Carranzista government IN
Washington since May, returned to-
day from Vera Cruz, where he spent
considerable time with General Car
rama. Mr. Douglass expressed the con-
viction that American estimates OF the
Constitutionalist leader had been sad
lv misconceived. Mr.. Douglass said:
General Carranza expresses the
HIGHEST regard for the United States
and the most profound respect for It's
wishes. He is not hostile to the present
administration policy nor to the ma
A committee OF hemp growers from
tho State of Yucatan, Mexico, and
renresentatives of American hemp
importers laid before the State De
nartment to-day an appeal for some ac-
tion by the Washington government
that would terminate the revolution
arv troubles there.