The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-10
0DREG0N CLAIMS
DECISIVE VICTORY
OVER. PANCH0 VILLA
Declares His Army Hurled
Villistas Back in Rout, In
flicting Heavy Loss
Battle Lasted
Twenty-seven Hours
FL Paso Reports Indicate Ban
dit ls In Danger of Being
Surrounded by His Foes.
Other Battles

IL FASO, ICxAS, April 9.--lAc-
cording TO Carranza claims, the
defeat of the Villa army ut Co.
laaya by General Aware Oregon
WAS a rout. Car1anza kilograms
reported the VILLA defeat briefly
last night. Today details were
given in q message from General
Obregon himself. Villa officials,
while In direct touch with their
chief at Irapuato. have allowed
twenty-four hours to eiapsc with
out denying the Carranza claim
of victory.
The obregon report giving details
of the victory is dated Thursday night.
Today he sent brief additional reports
declaring that Villa had retreated
north of Irapuato with eighteen troop
trains, Ave of which were carrying
wounded. II this report of Villa
retreat Is true, Villas forces at
Guadalaja ra are evidently completely
isolated. Today's telegram asserts
that Obregon has 500 Of Villas men
prisoners and that they report their
chief demoralized. villa personally
ordered the retreat. Obregon says
the prisoners declare. In his message
Oregon says:
The battled lasted for twenty sew
en- hours when the Villistas began to
retreat. Prisoners claim that Gen
eral Villa was one OF the first to
retreat We pursued the enemy for
over thirty miles over a battlefield
covered with dead and wounded. We
captured a great deal of arms, ammu-
milton. horses, supplies nd prisoners.
The loss of the enemy In killed,
wounded and prisoners Is over 1900.
Our loses are 500 in dead and wound
ed. We suffered greatly in the loss
of manv prominent officers
Private messages from Brownsville.
Tex. this afternoon stated that Skin
rishing was resumed today between
the Carranza troops in Matamoros and
the Villa army outside. II was said
that the fighting followed sortie of
Carranxa troops from the city.
Further victories in Northern Sonora
are reported by General +. Elias Gales
in advfces 70 carranza officials here
These state that. after defeating 1890
Maytorena troops at Anivacachi on
Wednesday. the advance was continued
and that the Maytorena troops are now
preparing to evacuate Nsco.
Offer. to Join Villa.
According TO arrivals from Lower
California border points. Colonel Emilio
kogterlitzky. who was chief OF rurales
under DiaE, has been in communication
at Monterey. Kosterlitxky Is now In
Los Angeles. having recently been re-
leased by the United States government
Kosterlitzky is Polish soldier OF
fortune. who. as head of the Diaz ru-
rales in Sonora for many years, was
a terror to all evildoers
1t is reported that many of the
most prominent Mexicans formerly
identified with the Diaz regime are
about to embrace the cause OF villa.
Rumor connects the name of Enrique
Creel. former ambassador to the United
States; Alberto Terraxas. former gov
ernor of Chihuahua: General Luis Tor
res, former governor of Sonora. with
those who are to furnish money to
Villa.
Messages tonight to Carranra agents
here reported that Carranza column
from San Luis potosi had succeeded in
ca pturing Dolores Hidalgo. north Of
General Villas field headquarters. This
would Indicate, If true. that the Car
rama generals are succeeding In car
rying out their plans to surround
villa.