Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-05-11
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MEXICAN REVOLT
| IN BLOOD THR0ES
We'll Lifted Just Enough
to Reveal Usual Period
of Slaughter Not Over
looked; Navy There.

Washington. May 1O.-(By The As
sociated Press)-Mexico's latest revo.
lution.- after getting under way with a
remarkable absence of fighting. appar-
emily has not been without the usual
tropical season of blood letting.
From behind the veil which obscured
the events of the past few days, are
beginning to trickle the stories of whole
sale political executions. counter-execu-
tons and other accompaniments which
have so frequently marked struggles for
supremacy in the Latin-Ana.Siean coun-
tries.
Carranza, variously reported captured,
in flight. or in hiding. Candido Aguilar,
his son-in-law, and minister of foreign
affairs. executed with General Francisco
Murguia. commander of the garrison in
Of political prisoners, including fifteen
generals: forces of the revolution in
control Of the capital and most of the
Metropolitan city: while American war
ships and marines continue to move into
strategic positions, were the foremost
features of Mondays news.
Intermittent Communication.
Communication between the United
States and the Mexican capital continu-
ed intermittently and uncertainty. Con-
tinued reports Of the cutting of tele
graph lines which carry cable dispatch
es overland from Vera Cruz to Mexico
City, are supported by border reports
that the line of Carranza's escape is held
by the reyolutionists.
From all reports, Tampico. Vera Cruz,
Monterey and Puebla, as we'll as Mexico
City, now are in the hands of the rebels.
Search of the city af Vera Cruz has
failed to find Carranza. One report had
him under arrest in Esperanza.
More States Go Over
All Of Mexico. except the states of
Iucatan. Campeche and Chiapas and the
northern part Of the territory of Lower
California, is in the hands Of the rev.
olutionists, according to reports from
Liberal Constitutional sources.
Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Tabasco, Elax-
Gala. and GuanajuantO were among the
Mexican states that joined the revolution
during the last few days. according to
advices reported from General Alvaro
Obregon.
The legislatures of San Luis Potosi
and Durango. have recognized the plans
of the government at Aqua Prieta, it is
reported. many additional generals have
given thir adherence to the revolt, prin-
cipally Cesareo Castro. who has placed
himself at the disposition of General
Obregon with the forces that control
Iorreon and the whole of the LaQuana
region. All the principal towns Of the
country are controlled BY the Obregon
movement.
Several Casualties In Capture.
The last message received from the
American embassy in Mexico City said
quiet prevailed on Saturday morning
after the departure Of Carranza with
mo unusual disorder" according to the
state departments announcement.
The only untoward incident report
ed the statement continued, was the
capture of one of President Carranza's
trains on May at Guadalupe. Hidalgo,
about 215 miles north Of Mexico CITY,
an incdeAt in which there were several
casualties"
1000 Yanks There.
Meanwhile, the American government.
while continuing a policy of watchful
took some measures to afford
refuge to Americans There are estimat-
ed to be some 6.O0O or 1000 such in
Mexico. some Of them draft dodgers and
radicals who fled over the border to
escape processes of law. For the most
part. however. that class probably is far
in the interior. and the Americans who
might readily avail themselves Of aid
are principally oil men and planters
along the gulf coast