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Show HEAVY FIGHT!! AT SANP Rebels in Desperate Struggle to Retake Town Federals ; Hope to Recapture Torreon. SURPRISE AWAITS THEM Villa Battle Trainload of Wounded and Prisoners Arrive. Torreon, Mexico. April 11. (Via El i Paso. April 13.) Heavy fighting was progress at San Pedro yesterday, federals having retaken the town two days previously. -It Is reported also that a federal force of 3000 men. believing be-lieving this city to be lightly gar- , risoned, Is on its way to recapture the 'place. A surprise awaits them, for when General Villa sent pursuers after General Velasco,. he left 500U men here. - San Pedro was retaken' by General ' Argumedo anil General EmelioT. Caiii-po. Caiii-po. When Villa's troops 'drove the federal commander de. Moure out of the town he left it with a, small garrison, gar-rison, th6 remainder of the troops taking tak-ing up the pursuit. Campo Tind- Arguinc.do are believed to have thought dc Moure still m possession for Ihey approached unsuspectingly un-suspectingly and were met with a withering, -fire, They soon discovered discov-ered the Inferior numbers of the defenders de-fenders and took it. Fierce Battle' at San Pedro. j Villa, with several trainloads of j reinforcements under his personal command, attacked the towh 'yester- ; day and a fierce battlu ensued. A trainload of rebel wounded and 3G5 federal prisoners an'Tved. here,, today. J. C. Hamm, American consul at Duragon, who has .been here, returned r- )3 to D.urango. today carrying assurances 9 that foreigners in this city would be M given every possible protection. Many m foreigners are here preparing to re- open business. jffl (Note: The above dispatch bore H much evidence vf the work' of the cen- m sor. One "sentence beginning "Heavi- er fighting than at Torreon," had been robbed of 'its verb and there' was j much other evidence of mutilation ) 1 |