Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-11

kCOHIIHueu lTOIH page I J. into Tampico About 4,000 Ameri- cans, it was estimated, are now in the city of Tampico. Rumors, none of which was confirmed, were cur rent on the streets, most of them purporting to be information of rebel successes in the interior. Vera Cruz was cut off from communication with Tampico at the time the ships cleared and officers could give no information about the rebel capture of thata city.
 Near Eagle Pass.
 Eagle Pass, Tex, May 1O.-Five hundred rebel troops under command of General Pruneda are approaching Piedras Negras, the little Mexican town opposite Eagle Pass, according to reports tonight, aand are expected to arrive some time tomorrow.
 Joaquin Rodriguez, revolutionist consul here, said he expected the lit tie garrison would surrender without fighting.
 Washington, May 10.-Mexico's la test revolution after getting under way with remarkable absence of fighting, apparently has not been without the usual tropical season of blood letting.
 From behind the veil which ob- scures the events of the last few days are beginning to trickle the sto- ries of wholesale political executions counter-executions and other accom- ornaments which have as frequently marked struggles for supremacy in the Latain-American countries.
 Carranza was variously reported captured, in flight or in hiding, Can dido Aguillar, his son-in-law, and minister of foreign affairs, was said to have been executed with General Francisco Maguia, commander of the garrison in Mexico City, after a wholesale slaughter of political pris- oners including fifteen generals :; forces of the revolutionists were re- ported in control of the capital and most of the cities of the country while American warships and ma rines continued to move into strate- gic positions.
 Communication between the Unit ed States and the Mexican capital continued intermittently and uncer- ldIu. hcPOICS Ol CIC SuOGihG VI bSAS graph lines which carry cable dis patches overland from Vera Cruz to Mexico City, are supported by border reports that the line of Carranza' escape is held by the revolutionist The telegraph lines which stretch down over the Texas border, and, or dinarily connect Washington with Mexico City flicked off their last dots and dashes yesterday afternoon and were occupied for few minutes with stack of dispataches which had been accumulating for days. What happened in Mexico City or some, where along the line to interrupt them is one of the mysteries of a rev olution.
 From all reports, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Monterey and Peubla, as well as Mexico City, are now in the hands of the rebels. Search of Vera Cruz has failed to find Carranza. One re- port had him under arrest in Espe' ranZa.
 The last message received from the American embassy in Mexico City said quiet prevailed on Satur. day morning after the departure o1 Carranza with "no unusual disorder. according to the state departments announcement.
 "The only untoward incident re ported" the statement continued twas the capture of one of President Carranza's trains on May at Guda lupe Hidalgo, about 275 miles nortf of Mexico City, an incident in which there were several casualties" Order DreadnOught Out. 1 No mention of the fate of Carranzs was made by the embassy. General Obregon, Carranza's form CT right hand military man and now his opponent, has ordered that thu president if captured, be treated witt consideration and taken to Mexico City.
 Reports published in Mexico Cit! newspapers and received here today flatly announced Carranza's capture with Ambassador Bonilla, Carranza': representative in Washington until : few weeks ago and later one of thu candidates for the presidency.
 Meanwhile the American govern ment, while continuing policy O watchful waiting, took some meas ures to afford refuge to Americans There are estimated to be some 6.OO( or 1000 Americans in Mexico, som'