The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-30
'REVOLUTlONISTS and CARRANZA
TROOPS STAGE FIRST CLASH ON
CHIHUAHUA and SONORA BORDER
Fighting Took Place i'm Mountain
Passes and Only One Man On
Each Side Was Killed.
CHIHUAHUA CITY TAKEN
American Cruisers Salem and
Sacramento Reach Destina-
tions; Mazatlan and Tampic0.

Aguaprieta. April %. c ARA nza
troops and revolutionists had their
first clash in the mountain dividing
chihuahua and Sonora today, it was
announced at military headquarters
here tonight. Sonora troops captured
eleven prisoners. One man on eacn
side was killed.
The fighting took place in Pulpito
Pass through the mountains about
a hundred and ten miles southeast OF
here. Sonorians also claim the capture
of a small amount of ammunition and
supplies.
Washington, April 30. Capture OF
Chihuahua City by rebels, formerly
officers and men of the Federal Gar
rison there was reported today TO the
State Department.
Laredo, Texas, April 29.-Cosme Hin
ogosa, until recently postmaster gen
eral, under the Carranza government in
Mexico, is being held in custody by
the sheriff here tonight after being ar
rested, charged with the theft of the
equivalent of fifty thousand dollars in
Mexican government funds. The COM
plaint was filed by the Mexican con-
sui.
Ell Paso, April 29.-An was tranquil
today in Juarez after a night of un-
certainty as to the attitude the garri-
son there would assume toward the
Sonora revolution. The officers and
men have reiterated their loyalty to
Carranza.
washington, April 29.-The Amer
lean cruisers Salem and Sacramento
were reported today to have reached
their respective destinations at Mazat-
Ian and Tampico, where they were
ordered in response to the request of
American representatives in those
cities that protection be afforded Amer
lean life and property. Commanding
officers of the two vessels had made
no report today as to the situation in
the two ports.
The state department. announced to-
day that George T. Summerlin, Amer
lean charge at Mexico City who has
been in Washington comforting with de-
partment officials left Laredo yester-
day for the Mexican capital, where he
should arrive by the end of the week.
Official dispatches from Mexico to-
day stated that six hundred federal
troops reached Vera Cruz on Tuesday
and were sent to Alvaredo, a few miles
south of Vera Cruz. where the federal
garrison revolted and looted the town.
Railway and telegraph communica-
tion between Juarez and Chihuahua
City remain interrupted and trains GO
ing south from Juarez have been COM
PEELED to return after having made
only half the distance to Chihuahua
City.
Banditry is reported near Guadaia-
jara where the Mexican government
yesterday reported General Dieguez
had 5000 federal troops modified. On
Monday the bandits seized the power
plant outside the city and shut off the
light, power and water from the city.
Aqua Prista, April 20 President
Carranza's steel ring which it was
announced from Mexico City he in
tended placing about revolutionary
Sonora, has been broken and part of
the ring" has joined the revolution.
reports to this base of operations indi-
Gated today.
In chihuahua approximately 1000
Carranza troops had revolted, accord
ing to an estimate by General p. Elias
Gales, rebel commander in the north
west at his headquarters here.
The Chihuahua situation has as
sured the Sonorans their state will not
be invaded, according to General Gales.
General Gales said he expected
Juarez. across the international boun-
dary from FL Paso, Tex, to join the
revolt. Mexicans here called attention
to Mexican belief that "he who takes
Juarez, takes Mexico"
Mazatlan, the largest Mexican port
on the Pacific coast, was reported yes
terday under attack by rebel troops
under General Angel Flores. The re-
port had not been confirmed today.