Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-02-13
VILLA WILL PRESS
TAMPlCO ChMPA IGIl
COMMANDER is DIRECTING OPE
RATIONS AGAINST SEAPORT
FROM NEAR MEXICO CITY.
DELEGATES IN CONVENTION
Villa Wants Diplomatic Corps &c Come
Into His Territory While Carranza
Desires Them TO Hold SEES
sons at Vera Cruz.

Cruz as the capital of Mexico and com
pei the diplomatic corps in the City
of Mexico to 90 there were discussed
Saturday by officials and foreign dip
lomats as one of the gravest develop
ments OF the Mexican situation.
President Wilson conferred at
length with Acting Secretary Lansing
OF the state department and it was
understood the American government
would point out to Carranza its dis
pleasure over any Inconvenience 10
the diplomatic corps in the City OF
Mexico.
Advices to the Villa agency Sunday
said General Villa had arrived at Ira
puatO, l00 miles north of the City OF
Mexico, and from that point was di-
recting an extensive campaign which
has for its object the capture of Tam
pico and the domination of the north
ern half of Mexico.
That General Villa would invite the
diplomatic corps to come into the ter
ritory controlled by him as a counter
move to the invitation issued by Car
rama for the diplomats TO 90 to Vera
Cruz was indicated in some of the ad-
vices reaching Washington. At the
state department no further news of
the differences between General Car
rama and the diplomatic corps was
received.
The Carranza agency issued a state
ment giving the list of original dele
gates to the convention at Aguasca-
Iientes who are either dead, in hiding
or missing and those who are support
ing the various chiefs. The Carranza
list claims that eleven now support
Villa, fifty-five are aligned with Car
rama, sixteen are with Eulalio Cutter
rez, twenty-five with Zapata, twenty
seven are unaccounted for, the where
abouts of eight are unknown, four
were killed in battle, five assassinated,
two are in prison and one-General
Jesus Davila Sanchez-is neutral, al
though his whereabouts is not given.
Enrique Llorente, the Villa repre-
sentative, Sunday explained that the
military campaign of General Villa had
advanced along the three principal
railroads in the central part OF Mex
leo to within few miles of the border
towns of Piedras Negras, Nuevo La
redo and Matamoros. In each case
the Villa troops are threatening the
CarranZa garrisons, he said. He add
ed that General Angeles had complete
control of Monclova, Monterey, Sal
tillo and San Luis Potosi.
Ell Paso, Tex.-Francisco Villa has
proclaimed himself in charge of the
presidency of Mexico. This was an
nounced in a telegram from General
Villa received Wednesday night by his
agents at FL Paso. Villa appointed
three ministers to take charge of the
civil government.
ION account of communications hav-
ing been cut off between the conven-
ton government and the division I'M
der my command, and as public serv-
ice can not be interrupted in the eX-
tensive zone which | control, l have
found myself compelled to assume the
political authority, creating three po-
litical administrative departments:
The foreign affairs and justice depart
ment, in charge of Attorney M. Diaz
Lombardo; state and communication,
General Luis de la Cara Cardenas;
treasury and industry, Attorney Fran
cisco Escudero."
Scarcity of food in the City of Mex
leo, and predictions that much suffer
ing would follow unless conditions
were relieved, were reported in official
dispatches to the state department at
| Washington Wednesday. The Car
rama officials are moving their rec
ords to Vera Cruz, where it is sup
posed the capital of the Carranza gov
eminent will remain.
Laredo, Texan official messen-
ger was sent to Laredo Monday by
General Ricaut, commander of the
Carranza garrison of Nuevo Laredo, to
notify Mrs. Jesus Carranza that her
husband and his nephew. Colonel
Peraldini, were executed n san Gero-
nimo Sunday morning by orders of
General Santibanez, the recreant Car
rama commander. Jesus Carranza,
Who was a brother of Venustiano Car
rama, the revolutionary chief, togeth-
er with his staff, were taken prison
ers by Santibanez in San Geronimo
on Dec 81. Members of the staff
were Immediately put to death. only
General Jesus Carranza and his
nephew surviving.
Washington. - General Villa tele-
graphed the convention agency Tues
day that General Thomas Urbina cap
tured San Luis Potosi Tuesday and
was in full control of the city and vi
entity. UrJinas column is supposed
to be the vanguard of the Villa forces