New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-24
CARRANzA MOVES
TO MEXICO CITY
Transfers His Government
Thinks Red Cross No
Longer Needed.
u. S. BATTLESHIPS
TO QUIT VERA CRUZ
Ordered Away o-day-FirSt
Chief Begins War on Rail-
road Bandits.

Washington. Sept. o. General Car
rama has moved all the departments Of
his government from Vera Cruz 10
Mexico City and is preparing 20 20 70
the capital himself, according to official
Information received here to-day. The
Ministers of Foreign Affairs and War
were the last to leave. Advices 10 the
State Department indicate that General
Candida Aguilar, the Carranza COM
mander, has launched vigorous cam
paign against the bands which have
been interrupting railway communica-
ton between Vera Cruz and Mexico
City.
According to telegraphic reports to-
day from Vera Cruz. CarTanza forces
already have engaged some Of the bands
between Esperanza and Tehuacam.
General Aguilar, it was reported, had
gone from Orizaba to the scene Of the
fighting with reinforcements.
Carranza. through his secretary, has
notified John K. Silllman. special agent
of President Wilson In Mexico, that he
does not consider assistance by the Red
Cross in Mexico longer necessary.
The United States pattleships Louisi-
ana and New Hampshire have received
Despite Carranza's statement. there
is evidently some need of further Red
Cross work, as Brigadier General Devol,
general manager of the Red Cross, re-
ceived a cable message to-day from
Charles J. O'Connor. in charge of relief
work in Mexico City, asking for add
tional supplies to meet the food short
age existing in the capital.
orders TO leave Vera Cruz tomorrow.
Other reports TO the department from
Vera Cruz said that in a wreck on the
Mexican Railway north Of Apizaco on
September 81 freight train carrying
supplies from Mexico City was blown
up and burned. The engine was de-
tached from the train and escaped be-
fore the wreckers could reach it. Mem
bers OF the train guard were reported
to have been killed The bridge on the
Interoceanic Railroad, twenty-five mica
from Vera Cruz, was said to have been
destroyed.
General Villa reached Juarez to-day,
according TO report from FL Paso,
which added that his arrival was at
tended with considerable secrecy.
Advices to the Villa agency to-day
reported a Villa expeditionary force
in possession of Zacatecas. The report
indicated a Villa force behind the Car
rama army, which has been advancing
against the main Villa body to the
north.
Ten thousand pesos in Mexican ma
tonal currency, valued at $4,000 in
United States currency, is en- route
south as ransom for c. P. Fuller, man
ager Of the Cudahy ranch at Santo Do
mingo, kidnapped by bandits several
days ago, with his foreman, McCabe.
Mrs. Fuller and McCabe reached FL
Paso to-day from Villa Ahumada, with
orders from his former captors to send
them the $4,000 as ransom Tor Fuller.
Enrique c. Llorente, on behalf Of
Villa, filed with the State Department
and the Pan-American Conference to
day a formal declaration that the con-
stitution OF Mexico provides for ac-
acknowledgement of national debts ex
clusively by the Mexican Congress, and
that any obligations undertaken by
General Carranza would lack validity.