Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-15
Chief of Staff Gives Out
Full Report on Sundays
Battle.
GENERALS FLEE
Rebel Army Did Not Ex-
ceed 1900 Men Who Were
Put to Rout.

MEXICO CITY, Oct. ii (P-GeneraI
Arnulfo Gomez no longer has any
federal soldiers who revolted under his
command and is being pursued by fed
eral troops under the command of
General Escobar, General ALVAREZ
chief of the presidential staff. an
nounced tonight.
The only followers that Gomez who
rs reported to have been discovered in
INC ttuatusco region of Vera Cruz.
about 81 miles froms Perote, are said
oy the federal authorities to be pro-
.1esslonal brigands and bandits and not
revolutionists.
All the federal soldiers who were
with Gomez have surrendered, Cen
eral Alvarez said They have either
been made prisoners or killed and
wounded in battle.
General Alvarez gave out the full
text of the report on Sundays battle
which he had received from General
Escobar, who defeated the rebels. Es-
cobar'S figures, which differ slightly
from those given out previously, were
118 rebel soldiers killed. 800 rebels
surrendered, one batch of 900 and an
other Of 200; LAG rebels maze prison
erS
General Gomez throughout the bat
tie remained on the top of distant
hill General Escobars report of Sun
days fighting in the hills of western
Vera Cruz declared. "There he in
Cured no danger and when the rebels
were defeated his companion rebel
leaders, Generals Almada, Medina and
Aguilar, fled for the canyons in diff
ferent directions, absolutely alone"
The Indians of the locality were in
cited by General Gomez, said the re-
port, and sought to attack the federal
forces from the rear during the battle
The federal forces, however, sent rear
guard troops against the Indians and
routed them.
The rebels occupied entrenched posi-
tions on the mountain side, General
EScobar reported Two columns of
General Escobar and the other by
General Heliodoro, advanced in the
face of heavy rifle and machine gun
fire from the plains below. When
they reached the trenches they en-
gagged in hand to hand combat with
the rebels.
AS the federal forces advanced on
the rebel position, the report con-
tinues, the federal machine gunners
poured their fire into the rebel ranks
from church towers and other nearby
elevations.
The battle began at midday and
lasted from five to six hours. AS the
rebels fled from the trenches the fed
eral forces pursued them in flank
ing movement. The rebels, disorgan-
ized, fled in every direction They
occupied new positions in small squads
upon the many nearby hills, but were
finally driven from these by the fed
eraI soldiers.
General Escobar said he never saw
such disorderly retreat, the rebels |
in their haste to get away falling into
the canyons. They were pursued to
the Gomez headquarters at Ixtahua-
can which was finally taken by the
federal troops This said General Es- I
cobar, despite General Gomez belief
that it would taken ten thousand men
to diSlodge his forces
The rebels, according to the report,
did not exceed 1200 men and included
mutinouS soldireS, groups of Indians
of the neighboring districts, and ban
dts who had been fighting for some
time under the leadership of various
chieftains
One federal officer and 26 men were
killed in The fighting, General Escobar
said. Seventy-two were wounded.
Most of the casualties we're from
units of the presidential guard, which,
the report says. fought most gallantly