Middletown transcript., 1920-05-08
JuAREz BREAKS
WITH CARRANzA
Sewers Relations With Mexican
Government and Rebel Troops :
Are Wildly Welcomed.
PROTECT AMERICAN LIVES.
Destroyers Will Co to Four Principal
Ports-TWo Americans Killed by
1andits-Gen Escobar Closes
the Port Of Juarez.

Aqua Prieta, Sonora.-The revolt OF
Juarez against the Carranza govern
ment of Mexico gave the Revolution
lists control Of the largest state in the
Republic Of Mexico.
Only one small Carranza garrison in
chihuahua, that of Casas Grandes,
near the Sonora boundary, remains
loyal to the central government, &C
cording to statement tonight by Cen
eral P. Elias Calues, cOmmander-in-
chief of the revolutionary armies in
the northwest.
The fall of Juarez had been expect
ed for days at military headquarters
here. Emissaries from Sonora had
been sent to Ell Paso to confer with.
Mexican officials for turning the town
and soldiers over to the revolutiOnists,
the commander-in-chief stated.
According to the General Gales, the
delay was caused by the desire to have
the revolt of Carranza troops, COM
plete and take the city without fight
ing.
1--WE did this to avoid any compli-
cations with the United States author
tiles" he said. 1--WE feared that in a
battle bullets might fall into Amer
lean territory"
More than half the length of the In
ternational boundary between the
United States and Mexico now is held
by the Revolutionists, he added, and
conferences are being held through
which they hope to soon have the en-
tire International boundary In their
hands. Thus Carranza's only COM
municatiOn with the outside world
would be ocean routes.
General Gales announced that Lis
troops here would move into Chihua-
hua Immediately. Casas Grandes will
be the first objective. At Casas
Grandes there are between 300 and
500 Carranza troops, it was said, and
among these have been reported evil
dences of pro-revolutionary tendencies.
From Casas Grandes the troops of
| Gallies will be entrained for Juarez.
Sonora troops and those at Juarez
will Immediately move south, General
Gales said, to join other revolution
lists on a campaign through the heart
Of Mexico toward the capital.
Federal troops under General Man
uel w. Gonzales, numbering about
| 1000 men, stationed at TeXcOcO, four
miles from the outskirts of Mexico
City, have been driven out by advance
forces of General Alvaro Obergon,
candidate for the presidency of Mex
leo, who fed from Mexico City and
Joined the revolutionary forces in the
south, according to reports received
here today at military headquarters.
General Obergon himself is report
| ed as being at Cuautla, MOrelos, with
the main body Of his troops, prepar-
ing for a concerted drive upon the
Mexican capital from the states of
Morelos and Guerrero.
Governor Adolfo De La Huerta, of
Sonora, commander-in-chief of the
Liberal ConstitutiOnalist army, is en-
route to Aguaprieta for conference
with General Gales, concerning the
military campaign to be waged in
Central Mexico, it was announced. He
is due to arrive here tomorrow.
U. s. Warships Sent to Mexico.
Washington.-The chaotic and dan
gerOus situation in Mexico, which de-
handed a conference Of state and
navy department officials was en-
phasized today by the dispatch of
additional warships, most of them
destroyers, to Tampico and Vera Cruz
Repeated reports that Carranza has
been cut off in Mexico City without
means of escape added to the anxiety
Of government officials. 1t is under
stood that If the Carranza forces
should after all concentrate at the
state capital and give battle to the
ring Of revolutionists gathering fol
such fight, the situation with respect
to the large number Of American
citizens in Mexico City would be pre-