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Show TABASCO STATE REBELS AGIST Up RULE lany Women and Children Killed in Street Fighting in San Juan Bautista, the Capital. .OVERNOR IS ALSO f AMONG THE SLAIN ilia's Forces Defeated at All Points of Contact With the Enemy; No Fights Along Border. VERA CKUZ. Sept. 6, via Havana, pt.' 6. The major portion of the state Tabasco has revolted against the irranza government. Street fighting San Juan Bautista. the capital of e state, and in Frontera, a town on e coast, resulted in the killing of Gen-si Gen-si Colorado, the Carranza governor, e chief of police and the secretary of ite. Manv women and children were lied on the streets. The Carranza fieiaJs remaining seized a boat at ontera and escaped to Vera Cruz -According to reports, Tabasco is mak-j mak-j an effort to join the state of Oaiaca maintaining independence of Genii Gen-ii Carranza. Oaiaca revolted last - ne and has since refused to recogrize ccral Carranza. Americans arriving erland from Oaiaca sav that thou-lds thou-lds of natives are starving or have ;d as the result of eating poisonous ts. Railroad communication between ra Cruz and Meiico City is pre-'ins. pre-'ins. this condition resulting from odit raids. The latest details regard-.X regard-.X the blowing up of trains at the vn of Cameron, twenty miles outside Vera Cruz, by forces opposed to Gen-'il Gen-'il Carranza, show that 250 constitu-nalist constitu-nalist soldiers were killed. Reports are persistently circulated it General Carranza is preparing to -- .ve here for Meiico City, but no offi-1 offi-1 announcement to this effect has ;n made. It is believed here that is unwilling to undertake this move ile the Zapata forces are threatening amunieations. JNSTON'S CHIEF OF STAFF ON TRIP ALONG BORDER 1ROWXSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 6. First ef Venustiano Carranza took a hand " ay in the Texas border imbroglio, acting ac-ting to a statement by General E. P. .--tarrate of Matamora commanding I- Carranza troops opposite the Browns-; Browns-; e section. A the same time Major W. H. Hay, af of staff for Major General Fun--n, took a trip along the border above e. He had not returned tonlgb;. It 3 believed hig trip contemplated an wrtant disposition of a small army of erican troops either here or en route enable them better to control the rmishing across the international line, 'oday, for the first time in several s. none of this Intermittent fighting 3 reported by army patrols or Texas gera. -general Nafarrate said that General ranza wired him to enforce strict trallty along this border. Nafarrate i that he replied that to do this he st have more troops. He was tonight llting General Carranza's answer. Ni- , rate said he now has available for der patrol duty between the mouth of river and Guerrero, more than 100 - es above Brownsville, 1200 men, hiding hi-ding customs guards. eneral Nafarrate said that one of his tenants who tried to water his horse the Rio Grande at Reynosa, was shot ;r-n the American bank. He did not i v the Identity of the killers, but said did not believe they were American 3ps. This Was the man for th re-ery re-ery of, whose body Nafarrate vester- ItaTLloes0"0" f thC America" LLA UNABLE TO 'HOLD CARRANZA TROOPS IN CHECK JL PASO, Texas, Sept. 6. Lack of ia 1 from Villa sources, official or oth-ise. oth-ise. today, of the reported rout of the la forces engaged in the attack on - nterey and of the capturt of Paredon I Saltillo, state of Coahulla, lea to the eral belief here that Torreon tonight congested with defeated troops and t a retreat northward of Villa forces i under way. It Is known Villa has attempted to fortify Torreon and the d supply there Is very low. 'hat a desperate effort will he made hold back the Carranza forces Is In-itd In-itd by the enforced enlisting of ev-member ev-member of the civil government, as (Continued on Page Two.) TABASCO REVOLTS AGAINST CARRANZA (Continued from Page One.) well as Mexicans who have sold supplies to the government. The capture of Psredon and Saltlllo gives the Carranza forces command of Junction points on two rallrouds with terminals at Torreon. about 200 miles to the west. If the advance Is pressed the force of Oenral Obregnn are expected I to reach Torreon within a few days. |