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Show WOULD III IT ' BEE Mexico Asks Permission to , Send Troops Over Border Against Sonora dp SECEDERS TRY TO T V- GET SINALOA AID ?''' Rumors of Revolt in Other ft ; Provinces Continue to !: Reach Agua Piieta $3?" WASHINGTON, April 16. h " Mexico has asked psrmis- W sion from the United -States to ' move troops through Ameri- can territory so as to attack ' "6' the state of Sonora from the north. No action on the re- j . j. quest has yet besn taken. 1 , ". AGUA PRIETA. Sonora, April 16 l5 Sonora troops continued their march f. toward Culiacan. capital of the ad-K ad-K joining state of Sinaloa today, accord's! accord-'s! b ing to information given out at mili- tary headquarters here. , ijf y" Military authorities said that suc- & cess of Sonora troops in Sinaloa would give the seceding state the military ft -' power to successfully overcome any Jfi force President Carranza of Mexico L might send against the northern state. i m ; Carranza, according to reports re- ceived bv Sonora officials, press dis- j $ patches and official Mexican federal M .ft reports intends sending at least three kX' armies against Sonora. One of these,) a Wbx? jt wns aid, is to attack the state from i Sinaloa, another by landing on Sonora fj' r-- territory from southern1 ports in trans-j I ' i;' ports, and the third from Chihuahua j I on .the east'- I Capture Tvo Towns. I Sonora troops, however, have taken j the aggressive in the ssouih andt , ,j 1 crossed the Sinaloa boundary and cap- '.' J ''. tured tvo towns. j '' Leaders of the Sonora movement E . here, said the attack from Vhe sea r ' must fail, and that troops were being r - sent in increasing numbers to the Chi-I I ;' huahua boundary. . I Rumors continue lo be circulated I ' fc throughout Sonora and in high admin-, i . istrative circles of the revolt or other! "Jt states and federal troops in sympathy f - with the Sonora movement. Confirm-' ation of these rumors is lacking. I jt" Would Be Rich Ally. I P-Ir Sinaloa will be a rich ally for Sonne' Son-ne' ifc ora' an( as imnoI'lant a loss fr Car-w Car-w ranza if it goes over to the "new re-. re-. if public." The state is one of the rich- est mining districts on the continent, I potentially, and already its mines send i' out much ore of all kinds. It is the 1 'dtfat& most Irrigated district of Mexico, and r several of Its rivers- are navigable. m Neither Sinaloa or Sonora have suf- W " fered from the long years of strife in ' Mexico and tne states would be per-f per-f haps better able lo outfit and provide ., for a revolutionary army than many '; other Mexican states. WASHINGTON, April 16. The Car- . K- vanza government wishes to move its I : forces on the Mexico central lino to ; El Paso, thence through American ! territory to Douglas, Ariz., and across j the boundary to Agua Prieta from , which point a movement against Her-raosilla, Her-raosilla, the capital of Sonora, would be undertaken. . The only other point of attack against Sonora is through the Pulpito . pass, between Sonora and Chihuahua, and it was said that this pass could i be defended by a very small force of J; i Sonora troono. JP In making known today that Merl- j . co had reiueBted permission to move 1 Jfe- troops through Texas, New Mexico J and Arizona, officials said the United States was "under pressure from the 1 ie''- Mexican government." lLj - Mexico frequently las asked permls- iS'' sion to move its troops through Amerl- M aT. can territory to attack rebels in Son- I P ora, and on some occasions it has been 7 I? granted. fed . The American government has been i' r notified officially by Mexico of the r closing houses on the Sonora-Ameri- ; ' can boundary. , The Sonora state authorities have w, established and aro maintaining cus-tom3 cus-tom3 houses. |