Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
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verted from farm tractors, pushed
their armor plated shouts up to
the federal entanglements, sending
streams Of bullets from machine
guns concealed in their interiors,
while federal bullets beat a ring
ing tattoo on their sides.
The battle ragged with bullets
singing about the adobe walls Of
this little town. For three hours
Naco, Ariz., across the interna-
tional line from here, vas the
recipient Of lead passing directly
through the town from a vicious
fire directed at both flankS of the
federal trenches.
The clash with the Americans
came after the United States
troopers had found a cache of rs
grenades near the border. While
the squad was guarding the
plosives, a Mexican patrol ap-
preached from the Mexican side.
1t was challenged as it reached the
border, and opened fire. Finezee
went down as his companions re-
turned the fire and dispersed the
Mexicans.
The grenades were believed to
have been intended for rebel use
IN today'S storming Of the federal
trenches.
The first hint Of brewing battle
came at three o'clock this morn
ing, when a terrific blast of dyna-
mite wrecked a locomotive inside
the federal trenches here. An cleo
trio circuit supplying both Naco,
Sonora, and Naco, Ariz., with light
ing current had been cut in the
American town.
At daybreak General Topete
started intensive bombing OPERA
tons owe Naco with three planes
working in relays, and marched his
cavalry and infantry out of the
hills as his bombs crashed in the
federal town.
A heavy fire began to pour into
the trench from the east, west and
south at eight o'clock. Rifles and
machine guns behind the entrench-
ments beat out a vicious fire in
answer.
Firing broke out again briskIy
after the reinforcements had come
in from Fort Bliss, where they had
been lnterned for weeks. The
rebels rallied and essayed again to
storm the breaStworks. They were
beaten off with less difficulty the
second time and had drawn off u
Of range for the most part by IL
o'clock. Sporadic firing, involving
Isolated parties of would-be at
tackerS continued long after the
main battle had ended.
AS the rebel troops advanced to
the attack on the east flank, Gen
eral Ramon Yucupicio's Indian
cavalry surged over the interna-
tional line into the United States
for several yards. A reinforced
United States cavalry patrol I'M
der command of Lieutenant r. W.
Curtis pushed them back into
Mexican territory and warned Gen
eral Yucupicio to remain on his
own side Of the fence. Rebel
planes, after Topete's troops had
withdrawn, dropped a parting oc-
tette Of bombs on the victorious
rebel troops and, under singing
machine gun fire, one Of the rebel
aviators unanswered his plane in
a defiantly reckless exhibition of
stunting directly over the Naco
trenches.
The federal army on the west
coast occupied Culiacan, capital of
Sinaloa, without resistance. Cen
eral CardenaS reported to Mexico
City that the rebels were retreating
to San Bias. near the Sinaloa-
Sonora border.
In the main northern campaign,
General Almazan's advance guard
occupied Santa Rosalia, about 80
miles south of Chihuahua City
where the rebel forces have been re-
formed. They also took ParaI, a
strategic mountain point, General
Gales informed the government.
There was no fighting in either
place.
General Escobar placed rebel dead
in the fighting around Jimenez at