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Show HUERTA'S SOLDIERS ATTAGKVERA GRUZ SHOTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN FOLLOWERS OF PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT AND MARINES. Major Russell Given Ten Minutes to Surrender by Lieutenant, But Mexicans Mex-icans Change Their Minds When Americans Get Into Action. Vera Cruz. An incident which came near resulting in a battle between be-tween the American forces and followers fol-lowers of General Huerta occurred Saturday. Five hundred Mexicans, cavalry and infantry, commanded by a lieutenant, sent a messenger to the America outposts out-posts under a flag of truce at 9 o'clock Saturday morning and demanded the surrender of Major Russell and his force of Third regiment marines. Russell's reply was: "Get out. Don't waste any ten minutes." Before "American reinforcements arrived ar-rived the i Mexicans fired four shots and Russell fired a single rifle shot in exchange. . The machine guns were not used. The Mexicans retreated before Russell's Rus-sell's supports came up. The attack at the front was made while another detachment of the Mexicans started for the Tejar waterworks, water-works, which gives this city its supply. sup-ply. The reservoir and pumping station sta-tion is situated ten miles south of this city and five miles inland. The Mexicans Mexi-cans expected to either destroy the pipes or make the water unfit for use, as part of their plan to establish a food blockade from the interior. This was to be done m the hope of starving starv-ing out the Americans. Three companies of marines under Major Butler are intrenched at the waterworks, he Mexicans ' probably reconsidered upon viewing the American Amer-ican defence and retreated. |