The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-04-16
Villas 4 TROOPS CLOSE
IN ON MEXICAN CITY
LINES DRAWN CLOSE TO THE
TRENCHES OF DEFENDERS AND
oUTPoSTs KEEP UP FIRE.
VILLA DENIES He met DEFEAT
obreqon Tells of Rout of Villas Army
and Loss of at Least 1000 Men,
FIees Toward AIamaca With
TrainIoads of Wounded.

washington. - General Villa tele-
graphed his agency Sunday that he
had sent communication through for
eign consuls to General Obregon in
viting him to come into the open
country north of Celaya to fight or
else permit the noncombatants OF that
city to withdraw before he begins the
bombardment.
The message, dated Villas head
quarters at Irapuato, Sunday, was as
follows:
"The recent engagements with AL
Yaro Obregon's column at 'Celaya re-
suited disastrously for the enemy
who have suffered enormous losses
In killed. have heard from reliable
sources that six trainloads Of Car
rama men wounded as consequence
of this engagement have left Celaya
for Queretaro.
The enemy is completely democrat
ICED and my troops in the vicinity OF
Celaya and Queretaro inform me that
Obregon's men are constantly desert
ing him in groups of from one hun
bred to two hundred, throwing away
their arms, which are being gathered
up by our soldiers.
The enemy have destroyed two kilo-
meters of railroad to the north OF
Celaya, which shows that they will
try to retreat or reorganize their
troops, who are in most critical con-
dition.
Another message relayed from Cen
sral Villa was as follows:
1--WE have defeated the enemy. The
situation could not be better. The
forces of Obregon are leaving Celaya
in order to avoid further fighting.
The humiliation of the enemy is now
certain. Our troops are pursuing the
enemy necessarily"
The Carranza agency gave out the
following from Manzanillo concerning
the situation at Irapuato and vicin-
ity:
Reports from Michoacan and ia
lisco confirm previous news Of Villa
defeats in the vicinity of Irapuato.
General Dieguez and General Sanchez,
who were at Lapiedad, in the state OF
Michoacan, have recently engaged the
Villa troops near Irapuato with sue
cess"
A message characterizing General
Huerta as g murderer and expressing
: the hope that he might be arrested
: while in the United States was tele'
graphed to President Wilson Sunday
by Senior Denegri, described by Next
cans as the Carranza consul general
at San Francisco. The message
charged Huerta with being the muir
, derer of President Madero and other
Mexicans.
, The Carranza monoplane at Mata
. moros in rising from the aviation field
for flight Sunday, dipped, smashing
4 one wing and the propeller. There
!. were no bombs ABOARD and no one was
D injured. Several days will be required
. to repair the machine.
q Douglas, Aria dispatch dated
q Celaya, received Friday by Genera
t Elias Gales, the Sonora Carranzs
i leader, from General Alvaro Obregon
!. tells of the rout of Villas army ant
the loss of at least two thousand mel
by Villa. The telegram follows:
'4Iave satisfaction to advise tina
q Doroteo Arrange, alias Francisco Villa
:, after shameful defeat inflicted upol
him by our troops here, is fleeing to
r ward Alamaca with eighteen militar,
|; trains, five of them loaded witt
y wounded. More than two thousan'
g Villa dead were buried"
r villa" the message continued
t. says his defeat was due to his re
S. gard for humanitarian sentiments
lie Hope that in future these sentiment
W will be more active in him"
- Brownsville, Tex.-Several thousan
!, Villa troops in the forces investin
" Matamoros drew in closer to the Cal
rama trenches Saturday. Villa out
posts lay in hiding in the brush
y quarter to half mile in front of tn
~ trenches. One detachment crept clos
d to the defenses, exchanging riff
shots for several minutes with tn
:. garrison without apparent damage t
- either side. The second brigade c
Villa troops, about twelve hundre
men, left General Rodriguez's heat
quarters Friday and circled south {
Of Matamoros. Staff officers said thi
re brigade intended to close the souther
I'd entrance to Matamoros.
tn Juan Perales, a 12-year-old Will
Us cavalryman, died in the Red eros
at hospital at Brownsville, Texas, Fir
'e- day. He was the boy who on Easte
y, Sunday promised not to cry if bum
de rabbit was given him when his woun
was operated on.
Brownsville, Textile arrival of a
American aviator at the Villa line
y about Matamofos Friday with new
% that more aeroplanes are coming, ar