The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
SEES VILLA LOSE
 IN WHICH 5,OOO
Invited to Trenches to Wit ness Big Fight, Core. Spondent Is Caught In
 Thick of Conflict.

VI thC SlthI llRuI DHIIl1 ut Sll- do, in which Villa was crushed
 and 5,OO0 of his men are said to have died, is given by John W. Rob- erts, special correspondent of the h. ternational News Service, in dispatch to the New York American. The writ CT was in the trenches with Villa.
 MT. Roberts wrote his description as the battle proceeded. He was shot through the leg, but was rescued by one of Villas gunners, an American named T. D. Taylor, who carried him to the shelter of box car after the defeat and sent off his message for him.
 Villa had been teasing Roberts about correspondents reporting fighting they did not see and invited him to see what he promised would be one of the greatest battles ever fought by his men. Roberts went with Villa to the advance trench and began making notes
 It is an old dry ditch, four feet deep, he wrote. Nearly 5000 soldiers are In this place, the rest of the Villa army having taken positions on the hills to our right The only sign of the enemy is cloud of dust four miles away.
 No one seems to be excited. It seems as though we are going to have huge picnic.
 A mounted officer just informed Vil- la that it appeared as though Obregon's forces are going to take the offensive Villa seems to take this as q huge joke
 Villa Was Confident.
 Let them come." he said, laughing. Before morning more than half of them will have turned their toes up toward the stars"
 Villa invited me to peep over the trench and see the enemy through his field glasses 1 could see nothing but hay cloud of dust two miles long. Villa has gone to place his artillery.
 have been friends with one Manuel Sosa. He has been a soldier in Villas army for two years and has never been wounded. He is a good natured fellow and is always grinning I like to see him smile.
 His soldadera has begun to broiI a couple of chunks of beef You must eat with us, amigo Manuel said as he borrowed a cigarette from me
 As we ate l asked him if he had no children
 "Si, senor. we've had two, but dur ing the battle of Torreon, while they were sleeping under a tree, shell struck them, and we never saw them again
 Manuel saw me looking at the red sunset and laughed. That's sangre," he said. God predicts the spilling of much Carranzista blood tonight God is on our side. That's why we always win.'
 An internal sound like the ripping of canvas split the silence overhead. A moment later whistliIg explosion was heard in our rear. jumped from where l sat, trembling violently. Man uel didn't even look up.
 'The enemy has begun its cannon ading," he grinned.
 1 am the only excited person in the whole trench. The other soldiers, who have not finished their suppers, are still eating. The soldaderas don't seem to be afraid, either.
 The red in the sky has turned to !. deep purple. The Villa artillery on our right has begun to boom. To me the air seems charged with sinister something that I cant describe
 Carranzistas Open Attack
 Away to our left there is heavy rifle fire Each shot sounds like two be- cause it echoes against the hills. No one seems to worry. A great, fat sol dier to my right is sound asleep. He is lying on the sand, and his face Is covered with his big sombrero.
 A young captain not over eighteen years of age has ridden mp to our part of the trench.
 "The enemy Is sending column il this directionv' he shouts First sen geants, prepare your men! There is column of our own men to the reat who will shoot down any one who at' tempts to fieer'
 He looked curiously at me, smiled and galloped away.
 X soldadera woke up the fat man, and he has begun to curse for all he is worth
 It is dark now. There seems to ba