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Show TURN GUNBOAT ON REBELS. .Federals Hold Mazatlan After a Day's Hard Fighting. CITY OF MEXICO, May 1. Assisted Assist-ed by tho guns and marines of the gunboat Turaplco. Colonel Joso Beltran yesterday repulsed the rebels who attacked at-tacked Mazatlan, according to two reports re-ports received today by the department depart-ment of war. The attack was begun in tho forenoon and continued throughout through-out the greater part of the day. The guns of the warship wore trained on the assailants and the large number of deaths in tholr ranks is thought to be the work of the exploding ex-ploding shells. Tue federal casualties are not reported Reports have also been received by the war department of a battle today at Chtetla, state of Puebla. Tho federals fed-erals are said to hav routed their assailants. |