Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-25
MEXICAN ACTIONS.
IN GREAT STRUGGLE.
Both Sides Rushing All Avail
able Forces to Fighting
Ffont.
REV0LT'S FLAME SPREADS
Many Soldiers of Carranza
Army Turn Against
Federal Colors. -,
tBy Associated Press.1

tBy Associated Press1 $50.
WASHINGTON. April 24.-Capturs
by Mexican insurgents OF Topolo-
bambo, to which gunboats were dis
patched. and Guayamas was reported
tonight In official dispatches.
Mazatlan, for which American war 1
ships arc headed, in which 4 number
OF Americans have concentrated, Is
still holding out. the report said, all 5
though it was not believed the small
number of government troops there
would be able long to withstand. at
lacks by rebel forces. said to be NOV
Ing on the town. 49,!
Cnrrnnxn Troops RevoIts ,;,:S
On the heels of q. report today from
sources considered reliable that'Colo-
mel Gallegas and the garrison under
his command at Linares. in the State
OF Nuevo Leon. had revolted, woro
was received tonight that the Car
rama garrison ut San Fernando,
ninety miles south OF Matamoras, had
rebelled and joined forces with Juan
Andres Amazon. a rebel leader who
has held his forces intact for two
years.
Indications were said to point to
Amazon forces with those of Gem
eral ->rmulfo Gomez. an adherent Of !.
Northumberland Alvaro Ohregon.S
who were reported in advices received
to-day by tho representative of the
Sonora government In Washington as
In battle with Mexican Federal trooris s
under General MARCIA in the. Tam
pico oil regioua Gomez with q small
BODY of he
national railroad forty miles east or.
Monterey eight days ago. according
to reports here. Two hundred armed
civilians are reported to have marched
out of Monterey to join Gomez.S
Two hundred Federal troops arrived !
today Mt Ara,amoras. opposite Browns
VILE. TO ra-cnforce the garrison of
100 men there. The force at Mata-
moras is said to comprise the largcsss.
garrison stationed there in five years.
IL was said that all available
troops were being rushed from the
neighborins States of Nuevo Leon ana
Tampaul!pas to aid Murgia, who Is
reported TO be i'm a dangerous situa-
ton. =
Official report of the activities OF
Comets forces previously had been
received here
Invade State or CoIImn.
Other advices to General Aivarado
SAID that n column from the brigade
OF General Rcnteria. formerly Eederli
commander in Michoalan. who now r.
serving under General ObreEon, had
entered the State of Coiirna and Was
menacing the Carranza garrison at
the state capital. sS,ts So
Dispatches to the American INV
eminent today said that according 10
reformation published in the SfeSiao
CITY newspapers. thirteen Senator'S
ami hfty-twc deputies of the S,aS foan
Congress had been dropped from tho
pay roll because OF their sympathias.
with General Obregon. .>g,.
Unusual military activity centerinr
at Monterey also was officialIv re-
ported today. and it was said tha,
tao lines from Monterey to Torreon
and to Matamoras were interruptea
yesterday. we
From chihuahua came reports that
large number OF officers and men
or the Forty-third Battalion of the
Mexican army stationed at LaCruz
had rebelled on April 81 and Joined !,
IN ahti-Carranza movement.
GuerrerO's Governor Rcyolts.
&C -"sAico city press yesterday
announced that Francisco Fiuueros Is
Governor of Guerrero. had reyolted
OUT that the Federal forces OF mar
state under General Maycot had "a.
manned loyal. Adviccs from Miebo.
acan several days ago announced that
General Maycot had Joined the rebels,
Genera! lturbe. commander of the &
Federal forces ut Mazatlan. on tho
facihc Coast, was reported to have
ordered the iron bridges over San
lorenzo river destroyed as n measure
OF defensive precaution. General. An
6ei fiores. commander OF the Sonora
reoeis' pushing south through Sin
aloa. broke through the Federal iine4
AT the san Lorenzo River on April
-. the advices stated. Sy
Assurances that the lives and
terests Of foreigners will be resnectsd
by the revolutionary forces w..a
given in telegram received tonight
os the Mexican embassy from
Colonel de la Huer;a. head Of the
provisional government Of Sonora.
Inc message said: Tho military
and civil authorities OF Sonora have
given all kinds OF guarantees and
securities f>r the lives and fntereats &
OF foreigners. The Same attitude Is
being followed by the Liberalist,
constitutional army In Its ADVANCE s
south. am recommending once
moro 10 General Flores to enerxettsss
caiiy prevent any outrages against
citizens and foreigners. giving thsrr,ss
every facility for transacting their
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