Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-06
A|RPLANES USED BY
CARRANZA To BOMB
FORCES Of REBELS
Generals Loyal to Govern.
ment Tricked by Foes and
Forced at Pistol Point to
Join Revolution

WASHINGTON, May 5-Secretary
Daniels today ordered a division of
destroyers, now at New York with
the Atlantic fleet, to sail Immediately
for Key West, where they will be
held for possible duty in Mexican
waters.
The destroyers are the sherwood.
Case. Lardner, Putnam, Beale and
Reid. The fiotilIa Is commanded by
Captain Byron Long, on the tender,
Black Hawk. which will accompany
the f1otilla. Captain Long was in
conference with Secretary Daniels
here last night and left Immediately
afterwards for New York to get his
ships ready to sail today.
The secretary said today that Cap
tain Long had been given full in
structions as to the policy to be pur-
sued in the event it becomes neces-
sary to send the destroyers to Mexi-
can ports.
The vessels should reach Key West
by tomorrow night or Friday and the
run from there to Tampico or Vera
d
few hours.
The state department announced
Monday that it had asked the navy
department to send destroyers to
those two Mexican ports. The re-
quest was based on reports receiv-
ed from the American consuls. who
desired to have ships on hand to take
off American citizens if that became
necessary.
Thus far no reports of any seri-
Gus disturbances in the Mexican ports
have reached the government. but
revolutionists are active not far from
those places.
At the state departm today it,
was said that reports thus far re-
ceived had not indicated that the
lives of any American citizens had
been endangered anywhere in Mexico
as result of the revolution.
Apparently unable to get underway
any offensive military expedition
against the revolutionists, President
Carrana has begun using airplanes to
harass rebel-held towns in the neigh
borhood of the Mexican capital, &C
cording to advices to revolutionary
agents here. Cuernavaca, capital of
Morelos, and Cuautala, in the same
state. are two Of the points that have
been smartly bombed, the reports
stated. The informant through Of
fetal channels yesterday that Pablo
Gonzales, formerly an ardent sup
4tsrter of Carranza, had entered the
rsvolution at the head of a detach-
ment of revolving federal troops, also
was contained in the rebel advices.
Further Indication that Torreon
again is to become. the objective Of
the contending forces was contained
in the report that General Dieguez's
force that had been trying for more
than three weeks to make it's way
through the state of Jalisco north
ward into Nayarit, to check the So
norans on their march to the south,
had been turned about and is on its
way to Irapuato, from where it may
move northward toward the state Of
Chihuahua.
CARRANZA OFFICERS ARE
FORCED TO JOIN REBELS
JUAREZ, May 5.-Juarez today
continued its process of adjustment
to the new revolutionary regime
which assumed control upon the
city's detection from the Carranza
government to the movement in
augurated by the Sonora state gov
a{1
toned as usual today, but 1t was ex-
pected numerous changes eventually
would be made.
With the expected arrival here Of
approximately 500 Yaqui troops from
Casas Grandes, another chapter will
have been written in the story of
the detection of their commander,
General Francisco Urbalejo, from
the ranks of the Carranza forces.
How General Urbalejo and Colonel
Eduardo Porcayo, also of the Casas
Grandes garrison, were captured
Monday night and induced. to join
the revolution has just been re-
vealed.
A party of officers was ordered
to Casas Grandes by General Jose G.
Escobar, commander of the Juarez
district. to meet the two command
ers and ascertain their sympathies.
General Escobar's ENJOYS met the
Casas Grandes officers at BarreaI
station, forty-one miles southwest of
Juarez.
Unaware that the Juarez garrison
had revolted. Urbalejo and Porcayo
were on the way to the border for a
brief visit. They were accompanied
by a small body guard
Escobar's officers greeted the two
commanders cordially and invited
them OF. the train for "a friendly
chat" ne Pair accepted and when
separated from their men were
menaced with pistols and placed un-
der arrest.
The captives were brought back
to Juarez and finally were convinced
that the part of wisdom was to join
the revolution without further strug-
gle.
First details Of the fall Of the
Chihuahua city garrison were re-
ceived from Chihuahua City today.
On April &c, Generals Eugenio Mar
tinez, Joaquin Amaro and Colonel
Manuel Cana, with all other chiefs
there, repudiated the Carranza gov
eminent and assumed control of the
city after twelve hours fighting
with the Sixty-second battalion, COM
manded by General Figueroa.