Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-11
BLOOD LETTING
MARKED ENDING
Of CARRANZA' s
MEXICAN REIGN
Reports Indicate That Latest
Revolution South of the
Border Was Accompanied
BY Usual Atrocities.
FORMER PRESIDENTS
FATE STILL UNKNOWN
He Is Reported CAPTURED, in
Flight and in Hidinq; Am
eriCan WarshipS Being
Strategically Located.

iuV MORNING JouRsAL sPSc'al LnAsPn wtagi
Washington, May 10 (by the As
sociated Press. )-Mexico' latest
revolution, after getting under way
with remarkable ~ sence of
fighting, apparently has not been
without the usual tropical season
of blood letting.
From behind the veil which OBJ
scures events oC the last few lays
are beginning to trickle stories of
Wholesale political executions,
counter and other ac-
Gan panmenys which have marked
struggles fcr supremacy in the
| Latin American countries.
Carran2a, varoiusly reported cap
tured, in flight or in hiding; Cam
dido Aguilar his SON n-law, and
minister of foreign affairs, execut-
| ed, with General Francisco MUIR
guia, commander of the garrison in
! Mexico City, after a wholesale
| slaughter of political prisoners, in
cluding fifteen generals, forces OF
the revolution in control of the
capital and most of the metropoli-
tan cities, while warships and ma
rines continued to move into
strategic positions We're the fore
most features of today's news.
Communication Interrupted.
Communication between the
| United States and Mexico City con-
tinued intermittently and uncer-
| tainly Reports continued of the
J cutting of telegraph lines which
| carry cable dispatches from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City, are supported
! by border reports that the ltne OF
| Carfanza S escape rs held by the
revolutionists The telegraph
| lines leading from the Texas border
J across the northern desert, ordi-
| narily connects Washington with
Mexico city, flickered off their last
dots and dashes yesterday and
were occupied for a few minutes
with stack of accumulated dis
| patches. What happened In Mex
| leo or somewhere along the line to
interrupt them Is mystery.
From all reports Tampico Vera
| Cruz, Monterey and Puebla, as we'll
as Mexico City are held by rebels,
Search of Vera Cruz city failed to
| find Carranza. one report had him
| under arrest in EsperanZa.
The last message received from
| the American embassy in Mexico
City said quiet prevailed Saturda-
morning after departure of Car-
rama with mo unusual a,sorder."
| the state departments announce
said,
1.-THE only untoward incidant re-
| ported" the statement continued.
was the capture of onr of Presl-
| It,, tt.At Inc uF
| Guadalupe Hidalgo, about 275
miles north of Mexico City, m in
cident in which there were several
casualties"
| No Mention of Carranza's Fate.
No mention of the fate of Car
rama was made by the embassy.
| General Obregon, Carranza's
former right-hand military man
and new his opponent, has ordered
thas the president, if captured, he
treated with consideration and
taken to Mexico City.
Reports published in Mexico
City newspapers flatly annorrced
| Carranza's capture together With
Ambassador Bonillas. Car.anza's
representative in Washington until
recently and later presidential
candidate.
MenwaEe the American govern
ment, while continuing a policy OF
watchful waiting, took measures to
afford refuge to Americans. There
are estimated to be 5000 IT 1896
| in Mexico, some draft dcdGers and
radicals who fled to esc.t..e the
| Jaw. For the most part, however,
that class probably is far in the in
terror and Americans Hho might
avail themselves of aid are prin-
cipally oil men and planters along
the gulf.
Battlcships To Key West.
For their assistance the navy
department has ordered the super
| dreadnaught oklahoma from New
York to Key West for possible duty
in Mexican water She will taka
a full company of marines before
steaming south. Meanwhile the
naval transport Henderson viii
load 1900 marines from the navy
yard and proceed to Key West to
await developments. American de-
stroyers have arrived at Tampico.
joining the gunhoat Sacramento
and the cruiser Dolphin also has
reached that port, other destroy
ers have reached Tuxpam and Vera
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