The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-05-07
REBELS CAPTURE
CITY Of T0RREON
important Rail Terminal Now in
Hands of RevoIutioniStS.
MORE SHIPS MAY BE SENT
Border Tranquil as Revolt in North
ern Mexico Spreads South-Haif
of Country Won by Foes
of CarranZa.


Ell Paso, Tex, May 5.-TOrreOn, i'm
DOrtant rail terminus and center OF
the Mexican cotton district, has fallen.
General ObregOn and his forces took
possession without resistance being
offered, according to q report just re-
ceived here.
Ablaprade Amya, newly appointed
collector of customs of the revolution
airy government, took possession OF
the Juarez custom house, but found
the treasury practically empty.
Disorder in Chihuahua has been
suppressed and train service will be
resumed.
Francisco Gonzales, it was reported,
is to be revolutionary mayor OF
Juarez.
The Ojinaga garrison, located
across from the Texas Big Bend dis
trict, and the Carranza force at Casas
Grandes is reported to have joined
the rebel cause.
Carranza Is Losing Territory.
Washington, May 5.-While no or
ders have been issued for additional
warships to go to the east coast or
Mexico. Secretary Daniels said ships
would be sent eff they are needed"
Relief was shown both in govern
ment circles and by revolutionary
agents here when it became known
that Juarez, Mexico, where revolution
ary fighting always has been a pOten-
tiaI international danger, had been
taken by the rebels without a fight.
While preparations for the safe
guarding of Americans at east coast
ports of Mexico went forward, and
Carranza's reply to the sharp repre-
sensations made by this government
regarding the murder of two more
Americans near Mexico City was
awaited, chief interest appeared to be
in the modified military plans it was
assumed the occupation Of the border
town would cause rebel leaders to
adopt.
Until now the rebels have succeed
ed in taking from Carranza almost
half his territory without a battle, but
military men here, who have watched
the developments of the revolution, as
sumo a few stubborn contests are in
evitable unless averted by further de
fectiOns in the federal forces. MeN-
can agents here persist in their asser-
lions that further cases of govern
ment troops declining battle will
hasten the end of their struggle.
Carranza's Campaigns Fail.
AS far as indicated by information
available here, either from official or
rebel sources, the two campaigns be-
gun by Carranza have been failures.
His effort to attack the Sonora troops
from the state of Chihuahua has been
brought to an end by the detection of
every garrison in that state, and the
expeditiOn sent from the south
through the state of Jalisce to check
the southwark movement of rebels
through the states of Sonora, Sinaloa
and Nayarit has not succeeded.
The occupation of Juarez makes 1t
possible, in the opinion Of American
military men, for the rebel leaders to
divert their Sonora forces to the route
southwark from Chihuahua toward
TOrreOn, long regarded the most stra-
tegic point in north Mexico.
CarranZa's strength in OOahuila, his
own state, appears almost unimpaired,
but in the adjoining state of NuevO
Leon, Andrew AlmaZan and minor
rebel leaders have made progress
south of the Rio Grande.
Almost at Gates of Capital.
The greatest immediate danger that
official and unofficial observers here
profess to see in the situation so far
as it affects CarranZa is that menac-
ing him in the south. The long hook,
whose making the rebels began when
they started down the west coast, has
now reached its barb almost to the
gates of the capital. With the excep-
ton Of a short break across the state
of JaliscO, 1t has curved through the
states of Colima, Michiacan, Guerrero
and MOrelOs.
A part of the forces in the state of
Puebla have Joined the rebels, advices
agree, and rebels in the state of Tax
Gala, between Mexico City and Vera
Cruz, have interrupted traffic both
over the interoceanic and Mexican
railways At different points in
southern Vera Cruz rebel operations
have been reported and from official
as well as rebel sources, news re-
ceived here has indicated well adj
vanced steps toward the cooperation
of the different factions