Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-26
MEXICAN FORCES
NEARING jUAREz
ALONG THE RIVER
De Facto Reinforcements Ap-
preaching Chihuahua City
Hurled Back by Villas
Bandits.
THIRD RUSH IS REPULsED
Attempt Of Bandits to Capture
State Capital Which Began
at 4 O'clock Frustrated.
DEFEAT CALLED DECISIVE

Ell Paso, Tex, Nov. 25.-A band Of
approximately $50 men, mounted and
armed, was seen moving along the
Mexican bank of the Rio Grande early
today. The men were moving in the
direction of Juarez, according to
United States army officers who are
watching them closely through field
glasses.
The identity of the mounted force
has not yet been established, but the
Juarez garrison commander has been
notified.
Ell Paso, Tex, Nov. 25.-Govern-
ment agents here received a report to-
day that General Murguia's cavalry
column, which was said to be ap-
preaching Chihuahua City from the
south, had been driven back by Villa
cavalry, which had been left by Villa
to prevent reinforcements reaching
General Trevino, according to this un-
confirmed report. -.
The report is said to have been re-
ceived before the interruptions in the
federal telegraph wire started.
Juarez, Mex, Nov. 25.-The Villa
bandits again were repulsed early to-
day by the Carranza forces defending
Chihuahua City, according to mes
sage received at military headquarters
here. The message said the repulse
was even more decisive than those OF
yesterday and Thursday, the bandits
being driven clear of the suburbs after
desperate efforts to penetrate to the
heart of the city and take it by storm.
Francisco Villa and his bandit
forces resumed the attack at daybreak
today, according to Carranza officials,
marking the opening of the third days
fighting in Villas effort to wrest the
Chihuahua capital from General
Jacinto B. Trevino's constitutionalist
forces. Communication with Chihua-
hua City was still unimpaired, indi-
eating the attack was directed from
the southeast and southwest of the
city.
Hope to Capture Villa.
General Murguia's cavalry is ad-
9yancing overland from the vicinity Of
Santa Rosalia in an effort to relieve
General Trevino's tired troops, ac.
cording to General Gonzales, COM
manding the Carranza garrison here.
General Murguia ordered the cavalry
to proceed by the shortest trail, leav-
ing the main column at the railroad,
according to a wireless message re-
.ceived by General Trevino at Chihua-
hua and transmitted here by tele-
graph.
Carranza officers here are e1ated at
the prospect of Murguia's men reach
ing the scene of the battle before Villa
retires and express the hope that Villa
and his chiefs will be captured in the
general>drive.
The battle, which opened at 4
o'clock this morning, still is in prog
ress, but communication with the bor-
der continues uninterrupted. General
Trevino, after sending message tell
ing of the resumption of the fighting,
took the field in person.
No details of the attack had been
received at military headquarters up
to 10 o'clock today
Carranza Officers Killed.
FL Paso, Tex, Nov. 25.-Soriano
Bravo, Mexican consul, today re-
ceived a message from General Ja-
cinto B. Trevino, commanding at Chi
huahua City, saying Villa renewed
his attack at 4 o'clock this morning
and giving the names of the following
de facto government officers included
in the casualty list:
Killed-Lieutenant Colonel Ulizes
Mier, General NJ. Gandarar Second
Captain Rudulpho Cabello and Licu-
tenant Elpidio Cara, the latter two
officers of General Trevino's staff.
Wounded-Colonel Borquez.