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Show mm mm I fORTl OF DEGOEE i Taxes Will Not Be Levied Upon Commercial Houses of Foreigners. BIG BATTLE IMMINENT Gonzales, With an Army of 25,000 Men, to Attack Villa Forces. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Consul yilliman today notified the .stale depart- , iiient that Goncral Carranza has aa-nulled aa-nulled so much of Cioueial Obroon 's do- f creo levying a tax upon commercial houses in the Mexican capital as applied to Americans and other foreigners. The state department has protested. The state department made representations repre-sentations to Carranza authorities at l'rontora, Mcx., for the release of the American schooner Martha, held there on the grouudi that her master was seeking seek-ing .to evado export duties on a consignment consign-ment of cattle to Galveston. The duties and fines are said to amount to , more than 11,000 Mexican dollars. Colonel Federico Cervantes, ono of the Zapata leaders, the state department was informed today, will permit the water wa-ter supply for Mexico City to be resumed re-sumed tor the sake of humanity. The principal source has been cut otE for some time by Zapata forces who occupy the suburbs of the capital. Battle Imminent. Preparations are reported under way for a cattle at Monterey, which is occupied occu-pied by General Angeles, in command of Villa forces. It is reported that reserve re-serve Carranza forces at Tampico have been sent in the direction of Monterey. Carranza authorities are rushing work on fortifications at Tampico. From Vera Cruz it was reported that Felicitas Villareal was still imprisoned. John W. Belt, secretary to Consul Silh-man, Silh-man, concerning whom inquiries had been made, has arrived safely at Vera Cruz from Mexico City. General Carranza 's agency here announced an-nounced receipt of a message from Vera Cruz saying the "food situation in Mexico Mex-ico City is better and food supplies are being received from various sources and distributed among the poor. "Villa and Zapata factions," it added, add-ed, "are reported fighting at Cuerna-vaca. Cuerna-vaca. Carranza forces defeated the enemy en-emy at Tacuba, near Mexico City, yesterday. yes-terday. ' ' i Will Attack Today. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Tob. 27. A message from Nuevo Laredo says that General Pablo Gonzales, commanding the Carranza forces, said to number about 25,000 men, has notified General Felipe Angeles, Villa's commander at Monterey, that the city will be attacked .Sunday at noon and asking that non-combatants non-combatants be notified that they may leave the city. General Angeles Is said to have replied that he would be ready to receive the Carranza army. Villa reports sav Angeles has about 20,000 men, while Carranza sources indicate indi-cate that his force numbers between 3 0,000 and 12,000 men. It is said they are well-intrenched in fortifications built by General A. I. Villareal, and are well supplied with food and ammunition and have several batteries of artillery planted plant-ed at advantageous points on the outskirts out-skirts of the city. Prisoners Released. j CORPUS OHBISTI, Tex., Feb. 27. j Charges of seditious conspiracy against i the United States in an alleged plot to form a republic of Mexicans and negroes j in south Texas were dismissed today at j the hearing of Manuel Flores and A. Gonzales. United States Commissioner Southgate ordered both prisoners released. re-leased. He held after a three-hour hearing that the evidence was insufficient to justify jus-tify a belief that the federal officers who arrested Flores and Gonzales had secured the right persons. The federal warrant i charged that eight Mexicans of south Texas, including Flores and Gonzales, i had formed a conspiracy, planning an ; j uprising against all male whites over 16 ; i years of age, to take place on Washing-1 Washing-1 ton's birthday. No disturbances were, , reported that" day. j Uprising in Yucatan. EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 27. A successful success-ful uprising against the Carranza faction controlling Yucatan, a rich state located in the southernmost -portion of the republic, repub-lic, was reported today in official Villa advices received here. It was not made known whether the revolutionists have avowed alliance with the Villa faction in the north. The capital, MeHda, fell Into the hands of the revolutionists after a brief battle three days ago, it was said. The Carranza Car-ranza officials Hed to Central America find Havana, Cuba, with the exception of Governor Santos, who was captured. The new party named Ygnacio Magatonl governor gov-ernor of the state. The Carranza faction attempted to send troops to quell the uprising on boats confiscated con-fiscated from the Mexico Navigation company, com-pany, an American concern, it is said. Rumors at Merida later told of a similar uprising at Progreso, the seaport whence the troops were to have transported. No reports of fighting- in south-central Mexico have reached the border for several sev-eral days. General Villa remained at Agung Calientes, apparently abandoning, at least for the time being, his campaigns against Manzanlllo, on the west coast, and Tampico, on the eastern seaboard. |