Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-08
CARRANzA STILL IN MEXICAN CAPITAL;
 REBELS PRESS 0l
His Government TOtters a 5000 Sonora Soldiers
 Advance
MEXICAN NATIONAL
 RAILWAY IS CUT
Important Line From Mexico City t the American Border Seized Gales to Launch Drive
 Against Torreon

Fl Paso, Tex, May 1.-The Car}I ranza government at Mexico CitNi is tottering while fifteen thousand. revolutionists have begun their southi| ern sweep toward the nations capitaltI Teodula R. Beltran, commercial agent for the revolutionists, announct| ed today.
 Laredo, Tex, May President midnight last night, according to Nell here. He said he received telel gram from the president early todaI anad that the message was sent fron the naitnola palace.
 The National railway of Mexico} the most important line connectinq, Mexico City with the American bor- der, was cut by Mexican rebels todaN at Lampazo, sixty miles south of the' border. Telegraph wires also wer4. cut and no news could be obtained from military train carrying 406, endorsements for the garrison at Nuevo Laredo, opposite Laredo. TheI troops were being rushed from Mon-' terey to Nevo Laredo following theI mutiny of nearly 100 mounted cus-| toms guards last night.
 The customs guards who declared| allegiance to the Sonora revolution,I fled the Mexican city after exchan9-I ing shots with Carranza soldiers lastI midnight, and tonight are reported1 to be at Colombia, border town 261 miles northwest of Laredo. It waaI reported they were adding reinforced ments and equipping themselves for| an attack on Nevo Laredo. ReportsI that they had already demanded sur-I render of the city could not be con-I firmed
 General Reynaldo Garza, military| commander at Nevo Laredo, declaredl today that the municipal police aanff| part of the custom guards numbering| 600 men, remained loyal to the cens} tral government. He said forces atI his command were ample to defend3 the city, and that request for reiiS forcements from Monterey had bott1 made to pursue the defecting cust0nt6 guards and other rebels in this seesl tion could be taken up immediate1y.l The whereabouts of the MonterNy troops was unknown tonight. TheX3 were said to be under command ofj General Carlos Ozuna. v
 The Mexican consulate today Ailsa nounced temporary suspension III viseing of American passports m border permits. The border here, S1 1 announcement said, would prcbef55 be closed several days or "until 1Gf$5| maj conditions are restored"
 Auga Prieta. Sonora, May 9-y General P. Elias Calles, com4al{ of troops in northern Sonora, Agua Prieta Monday for Ju1& where he will take command of Fl lutionary troops for a concentrete drive into the Torreon region, GApS ral Francisco B. Manzo, now stat ti9S ed at Hermosillo, will be ordered & Agut Prieta to take command of tx{ garrison here which will be used I'll a contetn and supply depot. 1t al(7 announced at military headquaftGl x today. 's N
 Five hundred additional troqy1 CIT expected to arrive in Agus Fff4x6z 2 from inland points in Sonora by MIN Monday or Tuesday, it was nounced jJ3
 General Gales and his nj staff, which has been stationed - e. N will give an entertainment and m in Agua Prieta Saturday night Americans in Douglas, Arizona.