Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-11-17
Bandit Chieftain Moves From
Preside at Head of More
Than One Thousand Armed
Followers,
GENERAL MURGUlA IS
BELIEVED ISOLATED
Border Port Is Guarded by Less
Than 500 Men; American
Companies Sent to Guard
Interned ederaIs,


El Paso, Tex, Nov.l6.--Thc Mexi-
can consulate general here was ad-
viscd late this afternoon OF the de-
pGrture from Ojinaga of Francisco
Villa with upwards of 1000 men. Por-
flrio Ornelas. with 400 10 500 men,
is left in command of the captured
border port. According to the ad-
vices received by the consul general.
the Villa followers rode away In the
general direction of La Mula pasa.
which is on the road to chihuahua
city. Reports from the latter place
indicate that the populace is in n pan
ic, fearing attack by the bandits.
Have Cut Railroad.
Gen. Francisco Murguia, command
er of the government forces in north
ern Mexico, left Chihuahua week
ago with the major portion Of the
garrison and is reported to be in the
vicinity of Saltillo, Coahuila. Villa
followers, operating south of Chihla-
hua, have cut the railroad and are
reported entrenched along the line
and prepared to resist any attempt by
Murguia to return north. Gen. Edu-
ardo Hernandez, temporarily in COM
mand of Chihuahua, has less than
l,500 men, while Gen. Carlos Muir
guia at Juarez, has less than 500
Two Companies Sent.
AT military headquarters II was an
nounced late this afternoon that a mo-
tor cycle machine gun company and
a company of infantry had been dis.
patched to Preside to assist In guard
ing tho interned Mexican federui sol.
diers. This makes four companies
sent from here for that purpose.
Army officers said that no decision
had been reached as to the disposition
OF the tnterned men.
The problem of feeding tho Mexi-
cans is n serious one, since Preside Is
sixty miles from the railroad. tho
country is rugged and the roads poor.
Mexican Consul General Seguin
announced late today that he had sent
large sum to Gen. Juan Espinosa
Cordova, late commander of the OIL
naga garrison, the money to be used
to purchase supplies for the interned
soldiers as well as the Mexican civil
ians who are refugees in Preside.
Col. III. G. Sickle, in command hero.
tonight declined to discuss the report
that cavalry captain had been con-
tined to quarters at Fort Bliss. The
captain this morning crossed the Rio
Grande at Ysleta, thirteen miles east
OF here, and brought back two of his
men captured by MeXlcans.
Tells of Villa Activities.
Slttlng under a cottonwood tree on
the Mexican bank OF the Rio Grande
tonight, Colonel Trilo gave an au-
thori2ed statement TO the Associated
Press on the extent of the villa move.
ment and told Of the $500 mile trip
which he made with villa through a
dozen Mexican states this fall to dis
II oh ,NIn 90.
ing the new movement.
Disguised as a wealthy ranchsr.
with a long black beard, charros
suit, and big sombrero, Villa visited
Slnaloa. Durango, Zacatecas, Jalisco.
Morelos, northern Vera Cruz, Goa
hula, Michoacan and other states con-
ferring with the various revolutionary
chieftains and discussing plans for
the political revolution throughout
the republic
villa was known as captain to his
officers, twenty of whom accompan!-
led him as a body guard. Triilo said.
Met Rebel Chicftains.
Among the chiefs villa met on his
three months trip were Mauquet
Palace in northern Vera Cruz and the
Tampico district; Roberto Sechudo in
Vera Cruz. Sedllla brothers In San
Luis Potosi, Zapata in Morelos Reynn
in Sonora and Eugenio Aguilar in the
south.
Returning from this trip on 0c-
tober II, Villa rejoined his column at
Canutillo. Durango, and the advance
to the border here started, according
to Trillo. Marching at night and hid
ing in the day time, the troops reach
I'd Ojinaga after six weeks marching
a part of the time the Villa command
carried the skull and cross bones
flags of General Murguias death
head brigade. to disguise their iden-
tity. The capture of Ojinaga was thu
start of the big campaign