Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-01-02
MEXICANS Agree
TO AMERICAN PLAN
GOVERNOR MAYToRENA OF so.
NORA LIFTS SIEGE OF NACO
AND RETlRES SOUTHWARK.
WARNED OF EXECUTIONS
Two Rival Conventions in the Field
and Three Rival Armies Are Strug-
Cling for Ascension to Power.
Other Mexican News.


eral Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of
the United States army, for the pre-
ventiOn of firing into American terri
tory along the Mexican border, had
been agreed upon by all factions
Enrique C. Llorente, Washington
agent of the Gutierrez government, OF
which General MaytOrena at Naco is
a supporter, was advised the latter
had accepted the plan. 1t provides
that General Hill of the Carranza
forces should abandon Naco, and be
permitted to go unmOlested to Aqua
Prieta, already held by a portion of
his troops. General Maytorena, who
has Withdrawn his forces southwark
from Naco, would agree not to occupy
Naco, Sonora, which would thence
forth become neutral. From the stand
point of General Hill, the continued
possession of Naco was said to be of
little value, because the Maytorena
forces besieging it from the south pre-
vented the further transportation OF
supplies obtained from the United
States. By retiring to Aqua Prieta.
Hill, it is believed, will be enabled to
defend himself better against all at
tacks.
Provisional President Gutierrez has
issued a circular to all generals of the
armies of the convention ordering
them in most explicit terms to cease
all summary execution for whatsoever
Of 4 Of Tho air ,troc
sent to Generals Villa and Zapata.
The provisional presidents secre-
tary gave out an interview authorized
by the chief executive, in which he
said that General Villa objected to
the circular as unnecessary because
Villa wished to run down the assas-
sins" and punish them.
The statement follows:
1.-TWO rival conventions are in the
field and three rival armies are strus-
Cling for ascension to power Unless
some central authority is to be recog-
nized in the near future the. most seri-
Gus crisis in the history of Mexico
soon will be reached. President
Gutierrez is tired of receiving the
brunt of all the complaints of the for
eign diplomats.
"Only last week an order of the
of Eduardo Iturbide was ignored by
commanding general who insisted on
the rearrest of Iturbide, and who Sc
verely criticised Leon Canova, a rep
resentative of the American state de-
partment, who was accompanying
Iturbide to the American border"
Governor Jose Maria Maytorena of
Sonora Saturday lifted the siege of
Naco, Sonora, and retired to the
southwest with his troops. He de-
stroyed his works, burned his camp
and removed all his artillery.
During the night his troops on the
west and south of Naco left their po-
sitions and at daybreak they concen-
trated four miles to the southwest,
where they boarded a train which has
been there since the siege was begun
nearly three months ago.
General Benjamin Hill, commanding
the Carranza garrison of Naco, sent
out skirmishers, who had bloodless
encounter with the Maytorena rear
guard Hills men took three women
prisoners and picked up a shrapnel
shell left in the Maytorena camp. 1t
was brought into the garrison and ex-
ploded while being examined. killing
three and wounding thirteen, two of
whom died.
Vera Cruz, Mex.-Fighting has &C.
CURED between the adherents of Cen
eral Carranza and those of General
Villa in the outskirts of Vera Cruz.
The Villa forces in unknown num-
bers are advancing, while the Car
rama forces have been obliged to fall
back.
A strict censorship has been en-
forced.
General CarranZa was made happier
Friday by receipt of news from Tam
pico that followers of General Villa
had been defeated at Ebano station.
The news officially rendered to the
press was that in the attack by the
Villa adherents one of the Cedillo
brothers, who was acknowledged 10 De
a fighter of Importance and who was
formerly with Carranza, was killed
and that the Villa force lost heavily.
1t was added that three cannon and
few machine guns we're taken by Car
ranza's men.
The defeat of followers of Carranza
near Apizaco, state of Tlaxcala, and
the recovery of Tlaxcala, capital of
the state, were officially announced
Friday.
Blacksmith Succeeds Carpenter
Ell Paso, Tex.-Julian C. Medina, a
blacksmith, has been appointed gov
ernor of the state of Jalisco by Gen.
eral Francisco Villa, according to ad-
vices reaching Ell Paso Saturday from
Guadalajara, the capital. Miguel Die
guez, the Carranza appointee, who was
deposed when the Villa forces cap