Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-26
TRUE SITUATION
IN MEXICO HAS
l|QT BEEN MADE
1':$S s $ 5 SS!::::S g. s.. G'I AIM
Washington Rep, Is Indj-
cate That the Revolt is
More Serious Than Car
ranZa Is WiIIing 10 Admit.
SOUTHWARK DRIVE OF
FLORES IS WATCHED
Observers See No ProbabiI-
ity of An Early Attack On
the RevoIutiOniStS By the
Federal Forces,

Washington. April 25.--Advices
from Mexico City reaching here to-
day. including some reports to the
government, appeared to be in
SHARP conflict with the summary
of the situation as to the Sonora
revolutionary movement made pub
lie in Mexico city today.
Army officers who are studying
the situation beyond the border
were frank in declaring their
opinion based on government ad-
vices that the revolution was more
serious than the Carranza officials
were willing TO admit. These Of
ficers attached much importance
to the southwark drive Of Gen.
Angel Flores revolution forces
through Snaloa, south of Sonora,
They also saw no probability, from
their advices or unofficial reports
of an early attack in force by the
federal forces on the revolutionary
forces in Sonora itself.
This delay. it was said. would be
dangerous not only because of the
size of the force at hand but he
cause of the increased activities of
lNilla along the government eN-
posed lines of communication
Flores Sweeps Southwark.
Flores, who has occupied Culia-
can, is reported to he some dis
itancc south on his way to the state
of Nayarit. His movement has
been facilitated by the use of motor
! trucks which he was said to have
fused a few days ago to route "a
small cavalry detachment sent to
check him. Instead of waiting for
| the cavalry to attack Flores sent
his trucks forward filled with
troops, and the federal cavalry
/ broke and ran. said the report
with the trucks in pursuit
| Further delay In the execution
of the governments plan to send
forces northward through Nayarit
was seen in the report that the rail-
jroad over which forces are being
moved had been cut in the state or
iJalisCo. 1t was not expected TINS
would do more than slow up the
federal movement, however.
Reports of defeCtions by federal
troops at widely separated points,
some of which have been conceded
by the Mexico City au, horities have
| been supplemented 10y claims OF
Gen Salvador AlyaradO, sonora
agent here, that many leaders who
have been in revolt for years have
ioined the rebel cause. Notably
among them was GeneVeVo de la O.,
one of the unconquercd Hapaista
group who was said to have fur
uished the escort VIII Ch enabled
Gen. Benjamin Hill to escape from
Mexico City about the time General
Obregon disappeared from the cap
| ital. A skirmsh occurred at Con-
trcras, a suburb of Mexico city,
while Hin was being passed
| through the lines and was followed,
it was said, by an attack by de Ia
/ O's fGrCes on Tlalpam, ano her sub
urb. The rebels overran the place,
according to advices here, looted a
few houses and retreated into the
| hills about Ajusco, the old volcano
that overlooks the capital.
Revolt In Vera Cruz.
A new revolt in southern Vera
Cruz also was mentioned among re
, ports received Rebels there had
cut the railroad from the north to
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
No report had been received to-
day that American war craft or
dered to west coast ports had ar
rived. TopolobampO, one of these
ports, already had been occupied by
! the rebels. Assurances by Cover
nor de la Huerta of Sonora that
care would be taken by the rebels
to safeguard the lives and Interests
of foreigners, announced yesterday
! by General AIvarado and errone-
ously credited to the Mexican en-
bassy, were reiterated today in the
copy of a telegram from General
Flores to Governor de Ia Huerta
forwarded to General Alvarado.