The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-22
MEXICAN BATTLE
LOOMS NEAR U, S.
MINE HOL DINCS
Hint That the British
Owned R.R. Helps
Insurgents
Seaport Struggle Near
Federals Rush Troop
Reinforcements
Seaport Struggle Near


General Jose Gonzalo Escobar,
plump commander-in-chief of the
Mexican Revolutionary Armies, an
nounced today that he planned short
ly to make an intensive drive
against the federal army of Plu-
tarco Elias Gales, now advancing
northward.
General Escobar arrived here early
today on special train from JIM
inez, where he left his main army
after evacuating Torreon. He denied
that he had fled the city.
81 am not fleeing from Gales and
I never have fled from him." Cen
eral Escobar said in his headquar-
ters at the Rio Bravo Hotel.
The rebel leader expressed his
complete disbelief in dispatches re-
porting the execution of General
Jesus Aguirre, commander of the
Vera Cruz rebels.
General Aguirre at this moment
is with a strong column of loyal
revolutionist troops marching from
TERRA Blanca, second largest city
in Mexico" he said. reports of his
execution are absurd"
General Escobar added that it was
his opinion the United States would
change its official attitude toward
the revolution if it knew the ''facts"
Of the movement. "When President
Hoover is informed that the airplanes
sold to the Mexican government by
the United States have been used by
General Gales in bombing defense
less citizens and cities instead of
pursuing military tactics by concen-
trating on our forces, he will see the
matter in a different light" General
Escobar said.
Denying federal charges that the
insurgents looted the banks of the
state of Chihuahua to further their
interests, General Escobar declared
emphatically that all of the rebel
funds were obtained legally. "The
officials of the federal treasury and
local directors of banks were called
into conference and given assurance
that every penny would be returned
upon the success of the revolution" "
he said.
General Escobar, who has reached
Juarez on his northward flight while
his foot-weary troops are struggling
north from Escalon, is expected to
cross the border into the United
States with the illegally obtained"
funds from the banks at Torreon and
other Mexican cities.
JUAREZ, Mexico, March 81 (UP)
Gen. George Van Horn
Moseley, commandant of Fort Bliss,
Tex, conferred with General Esco-
bar this afternoon for almost two
hours in the drawing room of the
rebel chiefs private car. After the
parley spokesmen for both generals
denied that peace negotiations had
been discussed. General Escobar
said positively there will be no over
lures from his side for truce.
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MEXICO CITY, March 21.-With
the successful forces of the Portes
Gil government consolidating their
position at Torreon and pursuing the
Catholic and landholder reactionary
forces under General Escobar north
towards Escalon, American interests
are becoming alarmed over the pros
poets of pitched battle near Chi
huahua City.
| American interests are heavily in
vested in Chihuahua and vicinity
Among the largest are the American
Smelling and Refining plant and the
vast ranches owned by William Ran
dolph Hearst, the North American
newspaper capitalist.
Significance was today attached to
reports that the American-owned
Mexicon Northern Railroad, running
to the Orc mining camp has been
badly damaged by the retreating
clerical forces, while the Mexican
Northwest Railroad to Juarez. thru
Casas Grandes and Chihuahua City
is reported undamaged altho this is
on the direct line of retreat. This
line is British-owned, most of the
capital having been found in Canada