Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-13
NUCLEUS OF SECOND
 REVOLT IS SEEN IN CARRANzA'S LIBERTY
Rebel Agents Admit Capture of Former President is
 Paramount
PROGRESS IS MADE
 IN REORGANIZATION
Matamoras is Added to the List of Rebel-COntrOlled TOwns-Form- CT Chiefs Whereabouts Still
 are UncOnfirmed

Washington, May 12.-Reports of progress in the political organizations of the new Mexican revolution were received here today, but the situation ofthe deposed president. Carranza, re. mained underlined.
 Dispataches from Vera Cruz said he was fighting off the revolution ists at point near San Marcos about half way between the capital and Vera Cruz, but no report, offical or other wise, came from Mexico City to con- tradict claims of revolutionary agents in the United States that he had been captured.
 The latest dispatch received by the state department from the embassy at Mexico City was a report dated May g, but communication by wire less has been established and instruc- tions sent to the charge d'affaires to communicate fully. The dispatches received related to the flight of Car ranza who was reported to have taken with him 27,O00,000 pesos in govern ment funds.
 Luis Cabrera, chief of Carranza's s cabinet, is one member of the official family who appears to have escaped by independent route. According to the revolutionists, Cabrera covered his departure from the capital for three days by leaving written state- ment for newspaper men who were He was stopped by the revolutionists at Chihuahua City, they said, but was permitted to continue to the Ameri- can frontier and upon the instructions of General Obregon, offered money for his expenses.
 The addition of Matamoros, oppo- site Brownsville, Texas, to the list of rebel controlled towns, was reported to the revolutionary agents here. Their report said also that Antonio Villareal, long a political exile, was on his way to Monterey to assume charge.
 Nucleus of Revolt.
 The revolutionary agents here ad- mited that until Carranza and his followers were accounted for and Gen eral Manuel Dieguez and his small command west of Iripuato were dis posed of, there would remain the nu- cleus of a countetr revolution. Both revolutionary agents and government officials continued also to watch for news from the Tampico oil region that would definitely fix the attitude of General Palaez, who has dominated that district for some years.
 Reports regarding his attitude were still conflicting but there was appar- ent!y disposition both by American business men with interests there and by government officials and revolu- tionary agents to regard Peiaeza, $ failure to be more explicit in ms promises of cooperation with the rev olutionists to maneuvering for eco- homie advantage than for military or political prestige.
 Official dispatches to the state de- nartment today said that after the revolt of the Mexican federal garri- son at Piedras Negras. opposite Eagle Pass. Tex, General Villasenor, com mander of the garrison, and General Peraldi, who was commander of the federal zone at Monclova, south or Piedras Negras, were escorted to the international bridge at Eagle Pass by Colonel Morales, in command of the revolutionists, who were told to quit the Mexican territory.
 All civil officials at Piedras Negras will remain in their respective offices, the advices said. .,
 Colonel Morales announced that full protection and guarantees would be accorded foreigners.
 Considerable disturbance was re- ported in the vicinity of Sabinas in the state of Coahuila, where Colonel Gomez with government forces was said to have seized horses from seve- ral ranches for the use of the cavalry to resist the advancing column ot General Gonzales, who last was re- ported at Monclova.