Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-04
OBREG0N CHIEF
FLEES CAPITAL
IN MILK WAGON
Hid in Pile of .Sac.Ss General
BENJAMIN Hill, ObregOnista,
Makes Way to Freedom in Il
MIX Wagon.
rRv Associated press)


MEXICO CITY, June 4.-One of the
exciting incidents preceding the revolt
against President Carranza was the es-
cape of General Benjamin Hill. chief
lieutenant Of General AlYaro Obregon,
who fled from the capital hidden in a
pile of sacks in a milk wagon.
General Hill vanished from the cap
ital on the same night as did General
ObregCn April -. The wagon IN which
Hill was hidden was stopped by the
police in the suburbs of the capital be-
cause it did not carry a light. Whlle
the driver was brlbing the policemen
to pass the lightless vehicle, General
Hill dropped out OF the back OF the
wagon and hid in the shadow OF Il
building until the policemen were mol
lifted.
Then the General crawled back into
the wagon and continued his flight.
Mystery surrounds the fate OF ko-
berta Ceiudo, to testify in whose trial
General Obregon was summoned to the
captaA furnished one of the tragic
lights of the CarranZa evacuation.
With General Arnulfo Gonzales, cap
tured by Carranza government agents
near Nuevo Laredo on April 30, ana
the aged rebel General Guadenclo de
la Lave, Ceiudo was taken from the
military prison Of Santiago TlaIteloco
here the night Of May 6 when the Car
rama sdherents fled. Whether he was
taken on the CarranZa trains the next
day and escaped, or whether he was
executed, together with the two others,
remains "a mystery. None Of them have
been located although several OF the
other generals, arrested prior to the
evacuation. have returned to Mexico
City. -, -. ...er
Ceiudo was arrested, with his statt
and $50 followers, at Ja!apa, '. =,
on March 28, after he had Surrendefco'
received amnesty, been given the rank
of general in the Mexican army ana
placed in command of district near
Jalapa. where previously he had led a
revolt against the CarranZa govern
ment for six years. lie was charged
with surrendering merely to secutt
arms and munitions with which TO al'
Felix Diaz.
The CarranZa government chafge'
that he had offered to aid Obregon M pa'
Obregon, in an interview given ne
Associated Press, branded the CeJud'
as a scheme to bring him to Mexico
CITY. involve him in charges OF treas
on and block his campaign 1of LII
presidency. Doan1oc
The progress Of Ygnacio BonllI2i*
formerly Mexican ambassador to IN
United States and Carranza canGl
date for the presidency from the Mex
ican embassy in Washington to a cam
in the jungles of Vera Cruz and bacI
to a prison in Mexico City was marke
bv stirring episodes. He is reporte
here to have figured in a shooting al
fray which occurred on March 2o nea a':.
Tlaipam a suburb Of Mexico Clt
which the papers supporting his candi
dacy intimated was an attempt 10 81"
''A Fhe T ra special train Carrying him hin II t
Guadalaiara was stopped near the en-
bv a missing rail. He reached Huaaa
la lara safely but the incident was so,.t, u.
hasis for numerous alarming report
Then came his flight from MeXle
Citv With Carranza, starting May
and ending in a dash from the DC
leaguered trains on May IA. f.o,
His good fortune saved MN ~, ~
death when Carranza was sian, III n v'
csn,n at Tlaxcalantonga and ne wa
brought here to be imprlSoneo UNI