The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-08
MEXICO CITY
TAKEN, SAYS
C0MMUN|QUE
Report Filters Through of Fall
of Carranza's Capitol =
Murky Silence Surrounds
Operations.
WIRELESS IS SILENT
(By Associates p-ess)

(By Associated Pcess)
Ell PASO, Tex, May S.-Revolu-
tionary forces under General Benjamin
Hill, have taken Mexico City, accord.
ing to an unconfirmed report received
here today from Chihuahua City and
made public by revolutionary leaders
here. The message from Chihuahua
said: t-. .--.#~
''It has been confirmed that Presi-
dent CarranZa left the capital for Vera
Cruz"
Three state capitals in Mexico fell
into the hands of revolutionists today
through the revolt of Carranza garri-
sons co-incidentally with the uncon-
firmed report given out by revolution
lists here that Mexico City had been
taken
From various parts of Mexico, es-
pecially south of the Texas border.
east of Ojinaga, to the Gulf of Mexico.
reports of revolutionary gains have
come pouring into El Paso during the
last "a hours.
Matamoras, opposite Brownsville,
Texas, and Piedras Negras, across the
Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas,
were tottering. according to claims
made by agents of the Liberal consti-
tutionalist party here. Camargo, Ia
maulipas, already has fallen into the
hands of President CarranZa's ene-
mics, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
was seriously menaced, 1t was said
Victories also have been won fur
ther south, revolutionist leaders here
said. Tehauntepec Isthmus and Oacam.
both in the state of Oaxaca, and the
railway junction of Cordobs, Vera
Cruz, have been lost by the Federals.
according to reports given out at milf
tary headquarters in .Juarez, opposite
here.
Murkey in Central States.
The situation in Mexico is not clear
Despite persistent reports that Presi-
dent Carranza has fed to Vera Cruz,
General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, Juarez
commander. who recently joined the
revolution, has declared that the chief
executive, though preparing for fight,
has not left the capital.
The legislature of the state of Mex
leo has joined the army in Its revolt
against the federal government. it was
announced. Tolcua the capital, was
reported cut off from Mexico City.
General Angel Flores is drawing
near Mazatlan, the principal seaport
If Sinaloa and the fall of the city is
imminent, General Escobar said. Ac-
cording to revolutionist claims. Gen
eral Ramon Iturbe, the Carranza lead
| er, is "committing abuses" on SYM
pathiZers of General Alvaro Obregon.
candidate for the presidency of Mex
leo, and one of the leaders of the anti
Carranza movement.
UrbaIejo Joins Revolution.
! General Francisco Urbalejo, COM
mander on the Casas Grandes garri-
son in Chihuahua, has formally de-
clared his allegiance to the revolu-
zionist party in a letter said to have
been written to General Plutarco Elias
| Gales. commander of the revolution
| airy army of the northwest.
| DOUGLAS, Ariz., May S-Ygnacio
Soto, Mexican merchant of Douglas.
was under bond today to appear In
federal court May IL to answer a
charge of conspiracy to send ammuni-
| ton into Mexico. He was arrested
yesterday by operatives of the depart
ment of justice after an investigation
of the weight of shipment of caskets
sent to Tucson, Ariz., from Los An
geles. Calf, revealed $1,000 rounds of
ammunition.
| " ASTll4>N oN, H. -. may o.
Mexico City is believed here to have
been virtually cut off from communi-
cation with the outside world through
the destruction of the wire lines by
the revolutionists. The state depart
ment has received no word from the
American embassy at the Mexican
capital since Thursday.
There is a powerful wireless station
in the capital, but there was some
doubt whether this was in operation.
In some Mexican circles it was sug-
! gested that Carranza probably had
destroyed the station so as to screen
his activities. No confirmation of the
report that the president had left
Mexico City has been received here.
! EAGLE PASS, Texas, May s-Fal-
tillo, capital of the state of Coahuila.
was taken over by Mexican revolu.
tionists yesterday, according to unof.
ficial reports received here today.
The federal garrison offered no re-
sistance, it was said. The train serv-
ice was suspended at Monolova, about
100 miles south of the border, today
The cause of the suspension could not