Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-05-18
Cen. CARRANzA
TAKEN, REPORT
President, His Son-in-LaW and
Former Ambassador to
U. S. Captured.
AGUILAR and MURGUIA SHOT
u. S. Dreadnaught Oklahoma Rushed
to Mexican Waters With Marines
to Watch velopments-lnsur-
gents Take More Towns.

FL PaSo, Tex, May 1l.-NenuStlano
CarranZa. escaping president of Mex
lea, was captured together with cabi-
net officials, Louis Cabrera, Manuel
Aguirre Berlanga. Luis Samuel Rejas,
Manuel Anaya, LuciO BlancO, lgnaclo
BonillaS, former ambassador at Wash
ingtOn, and Governor Bueda Magre by
revolutionary forces of the command
of Gen. Pablo Gonzales at APIECE, state
of Pue6la, say advices to Roberto Pes
queima, rebel financial agent here.
Confirmation was also received of
the execution of General Francisco
MUrguia and Gen. Juan Barragan, the
latter chief of CarranZa's bOdyguard
of HuSSarS Gen. Candida Aguilar.
sOn-in-law of CarranZa and General
Diguez, lost their lives in a fight with
rebels in the state of Vera Cruz. Col.
Alberto Salinas, nephew of the flee
ing president and commander of the
aviation school, was wounded.
Gen. Alyara Oregon has ordered
the CarranZa party survivors brought
back to Mexico City under guarantees
that their lives will be spared. The
national capital is quite fully under
revolutionary control.
Washington, May 1I.-President
Carranza, his SOn-in-laW, Candida
AguiIar; Ygnacio BOnilIas forI.s>~ am
baSsadOr to the United States. have
been captured by the revOlutiOnfsts.
according to reports published in the
Mexico City newspapers and received
here.
Aguilar was said to have been exc
cuted along with Generals Murguia,
who commanded the federal forces l
the capital, and Berranga and UrquizO.
General Oregon, now in charge of
Mexico city has directed that the life
and property of Carranza be fully pro
tected
Official reports received by the state
department from the embassy at Mex
leo City disclosed that Gen. Pablo Con
Zales captured The capital. His
troops took charge last Friday. The
embassy's report said that General
Oregon and his forces were on the
outskirts and were expected to enter
on Saturday. Previous advices to the
department from the embassy said OBJ
RECON entered the city Friday.
Both Gems. ObregOn and Gonzales.
the embassy said, notified the people
that there would be no disorders and
business houses were open as usual.
The newspaper reports as received
here gave no details as to the execu-
ton of Aguilar and the other three
generals, nor was it stated whether
they had been killed by their troops
| or by orders of revolutionists.
| Communication with Mexico City
still was difficult though the wireless
station was in operation. Apparently
| the revOlutiOnistS were letting through
no more news than did Carranza Just
before the capital fell. General Obre-
gOn was at Chapultepec, the military
school in Mexico City, and sent a tele-
gram from there to his wife, who is in
HermOSilla, state of Sonora.
The dreadnaught Oklahoma has
| been ordered from New York TO Key
West for possible duty in Mexican wa
tiers.
The ship will stop on the way at
| Philadelphia to take on a full com
| pany of marines from the League
| island station.
The Oklahoma should reach Key
| West several days ahead of the trans
| port Henderson. which is now on the
| WOW tO paUuo iSIoD6 70 +oJ-o ~. 40
additional force of 1000 marines. So
far as could he learned, no orders have
| been issued to either vessel to proceed
farther than Key West.
Estimates of the state department
| place the number of Americans in
Mexico at 5000 to 1000. This number
includes radicals and draft evaders
who crossed the border to escape ar
rest or court proceedings.
With Mexico City, Vera Cruz and
TampicO in the hands of the re\olu-
tiOniStS, American deStrOyers are on
the way to Mexican waters to await
eventualities and to afford protection
to American lives in the Mexican gulf
ports. General Obrtgon is said to be
in control of the capital. An uncon-
firmed report told of the capture of
| President CarranZa.
official confirmation of the fall of
the Mexican capital was received by
the state department from the Ameri.
can embassy. which reported there
was no disorder in the capital incident
TO the transfer of authority. Tampico
and Vera Cruz also were reported
quiet.