El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-11-30
REPORT TREWNO
HAS EVACUATED
CHIHUAHUA CITY
PROVES PERSISTENT
Ammunition Shortage Is
Cause Of Action, Says
Washington
GONZALES HAS


L. u WV -O.
For the first time since the re.
port gained circulation, a Car,
rama official here admitted
later today, the possibility thai
General Trevino had beer
forced to evacuate chihuahua
City because of a shortage Of
ammunition.
While insisting that only one
message had been received
from General Trevino since
Saturday this official said Gen
eral Trevino might be north Of
Chihuahua City with his
forces, having withdrawn to
Sauz where a supply Of ammu-
milton was obtainable, he said.
This movement, if made, he
added, had been made for tenn
porary military reasons and
said Trevino would move
southwark again as soon as
General Murguia appeared to
the south Of the city.
The Carranza officials pro-
duced the telegram from Gen
eral Trevino which reached
General Gonzales late yester-
day, dated November ~, as
proof that the Carranza COM
mander was in the capital yes
.terday morning. If he was
forced to retire north because
of a shortage Of ammunition,
they said, this movement had
been executed after the mes
sage to General Gonzales had
been sent.
Ell PasO, Nov. 2S.-United States
government officials here claim to
have received positive information re-
garding the reported evacuation of
Chihuahua City by General Jacinto B.
Trevino, the Carranza commander, be-
cause of a shortage of ammunition.
These officials have sent al official
report to Washington regarding this
report which, they say, has not yet
been fully confirmed.
The report, which was said to have
been received by courier from Taba-
loapa, south of Chihuahua City, to
Terrazas and from there by telegraph
to Juarez, was to the effect that Gen
eral Trevino had exhausted his ammu-
milton supply and had been forced to
Villa, the same report here
said, was in possession Of the city, and
Treyino had been forced to abandon
the artillery and that many Of the in
fantry forces had gone over to Villa,
according to the report. ~
One high government official here
said today he had received his infor-
alton from Lauro Corillo, a brother OF
Mrs. Jacinto Trevino, who is making
her home here. Corillo, according to
this same source, received the mes
sage for Mrs. TreYino to inform her
that her husband was safe.
At her apartment here Mrs. Trevino
denied emphatically she had received
any such message, adding that the
asst message she had received was on
Saturday, before the telegraph line
was cut. She also denied that her
had received any such mes
sage.
Both Consul Eduardo Bravo and
Andres Garcia, inspector general of
3onsulates. insist no message has
been received from Terrazas OF any
station between Chihuahua City
md Juarez from General Trevino.
They insist that no news has been
received since Saturday morning
when the Telegraph line was cut, ex-
,ept that received by the Associated
Press from the state capital by way
II Ojinaga, Chin, and Maria, Tex.
Consul Bravo received a private
ode message from General Trevino
" way of Ojinaga yesterday, bearing
he date November 81" This is ex-
by the fact that the telegraph
inc from Ojinaga to Chihuahua City
5 now believed to be in working or
ler, having been repaired by the mill
airy for use after the MEXICAN Central
nd federal lines to Juarez we're cut
saturday.