The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-27
RUNOR VILA NOW
PLANS T0AQEDGE
ANGELES killing
City Objective
Point In Reported ReprlSaI
Campaign Scheduled TO Be
Undertaken by Rebels.

III fAso, Tex, New. 37.-PsTSistsnt
Tnmors Of the Matching Of i plot by
VIVA elements in the state Of chIhua.
hua 10 ayenge the execution Of cen.
Felipe Angeles, noted rebel leader. at
l!hihushua city, reached The border to-
DAY, Everyone connected with the trial
o. the villa ehieftain has been marked
ar vengeance, according to the re-
ELsheisco Villa the ally Of An
eetes VIII start Immediately upon his
campaign Of reprissl, Chihuahua City
being hts objective point. il IA said.
Ihe, rebels are reported to be planning
70 destroy the railroad between Juarez
anq Chihuahua City.
Disorders were already said TO have
occurred IN Chihuahua City, but no
fqntirTnatton OF these rpnnorM was OBJ
tainable here. Consul.G General Andres
& Garcia OF Mexico, said he had heard
hothlnF 81 any outbresks at the, capt.
lal Meanwhile, preparations were be-
tooS pt wsae az a,y ths , saETlson y JusDss
der In the absence 6f Gen. JAse Con,
zales Eseobar, commander of the
Juarez district, Col, Eduardo r, Por.
eayo, acting commander, ts reported as
having taken every precaution 10 fore
Angeles eympathizers. Gen. Escobar,
who was one Of the Judges who tried
Gen Angeles. was expected to return
TO JuaTsy today.
.JuareE police we're given orders last
night 70 keep strlct watch on all sus-
was maintained on the streets. No
trouble was reported,
"Details of Trial,
In his testimony before the military
board By which he was tried. Gen
Angeles repeatedly denied that he had
taken arms against the CarranEa gov
eminent, but asserted that be returned
to Mexico merely to effect a union Of
all clements, according to a detailed
story Of the trial, published by El Heral-
do, OF chihuahua City.
Cen. Angeles bitterly attacked what
n termed the strong passions OF the
Mexican people,
"To correct there errors. I exposed
with villa Il was dangerous for me
70 treat with him, for he made use az
threats when ! made bold to contradict
we held our first argument in
Iosesigua, becauee' he called Madern
voices rose to shouts. Villas soldiers
expected that he would order me hanged
as he had done to all those who con-
tradicted him,
"Afterward, when he had Gained
down, villa told me that 1 was the
first ma that had ~contradlcted him
and escaped alive. This confirmed in
me the belief that villa would have
been a good man had 1t not been for
despots and s~ycophants."
In the course Of his lengthy address
70 the court, Angeles spoke ofVictor
Hugo's les Miserables," comparing
Francisco Villa with Jean Vatican. sud
denly the prisoner raised his voice and
shouted,
Those who accuse me and those who
arrested me are Villistas, The masters
should be the people who should gov
ern themselves, who should cease being
servile, for they are g~reat---n
From the balcony and the gallery of
the large theater in which the trial
was held there came such a storm of
applause that Gen. Gabrielle Gavira. pre-
stding officer OF the military board, had
10 warn the auditors that such dem.
o~nstrattons we're prohibited.
After vigorously denying that he had
refisted the efforts Of the state guards
men 10 capture him, Angeles launched
forth into q discussion Of socialism and
quoted words OF Jesus Christ and tha
works of Theodore Roosevelt and the
Austrian socialist, Kaussky.