Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-18
Declares He Has No Personal Ambition = Wishes Only Unity and Peace for
 His People Refers Again to His Unan- swered Challenge to Mur- guia-Battle Expected
 Refugees Reach
 Texas
(By Review Leased Wire )

! PRESIDIO, Tex. Nov. 17.-Francis- co Villa is again in the saddle in
 Mexico at the head of new revolu- ! tionary movement. which he calls -El Partido de la Convention" His head quarters have been in Ojinaga. oppo-
 site here. since his troops captured
 the town from the federals Tuesday night
 Villa now wears a black beard. a
 relic of his recent trip through Mex ico to confer with his chieftains and heads of other movements whom he claims to have correlated under his I leadership for the first time in more than a year.
 Villa today authorized the follow | ing statement for the Associated | Press:
 Upon taking possession by force of arms of this town. which I found in | the power of the so-called constitu- | tionalists. who criminally defended it for Venustiano Carranza. the traitor and despot. I think il my duty to make the following declarations in or der that once more my aims and mo tives may be shown to the world to be patriotic and noble.
 | First of all. I have no personal ambitions, but my earnest desire. which 1 have already expressed. is that my people may obtain unity and my country peace. To that end bring together the principal revolu- tionists who since 1910 ,>have been striving 10 attain that end Contrary to everything they have said of me. wish to make it known that I win strive with valor and decision against |. the enemy. but I will be magnani- mous in victory, the proof of which was the recent occurrence here of the turning over to the Carranza consul in Presidio. Tex. the Carranza soldiers who were made prisoners in Ojilaga. and also the release of prisoners ta- ken. incorporating them in our army because they decided they were on the wrong side.
 Appeal to Mexicans
 "I wish now to make a solemn call to all Mexicans in general and in par ticular to Carranza soldiers to no. tice how l have conducted mself in comparison to the conduct of Fran cisco Murguia. in the state of Chi huahua, because these chiefs assas- sinate. rape and torment all those h- Eurhf tk l prisoners. In comparison to this offer all guarantee. to friend and foe alike. wish here also to make a formal and energetic protest before the Mexican nation and the world of the inhumanity of the laws of sus- pension of guarantees just decreed by Carranza. l offer all guarantees that the said Carranza government has. without conscience. declared void. The Mexicans who are honorable and pa- triotic can come. then. to my side without fear. so that we may all unite and save the republic.
 The papers of Mexico and the United States recently published. in sensational form. the notice that was asking for peace with Carranza. I de clare emphatically that this notice is false. Furthermore, I will never ask of Carranza more than before. PatriOt- ism and justice above all Because of this I have striven and will strive without rest until obtain it for all. whoever they may be. and above all my desire is to see the desert. the plains and mountains rise with men tired of the infamy of Carranza and his ministers. and. repeating history. rise up against the traitors and pun ish them as they deserve.
 Challenge to Personal Combat
 'Dring last July l made a statement which appeared in the American pa- pers in which invited Gen. Francisco Murguia to personal combat on ground of his own choosing. and to this day I have had no answer.
 T think the said general considers it beneath his dignity to accept the challenge. but the reason that guided me in my offer was to give him a change to put an end to me. as he had often boasted he would do if he could get his hands on me. I am still