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Show Mexican General Asserts Party, Fled On Attack, Leavincj; , Carranza Wounded. I I MEXICO CITY, Juno 6. Reitcra- ', H Ition of his assertions that the late I H President Carranza's death was due to H j suicide and the cowurdico of his com- ' H ipanlonu wan tho fcaturn of brief dco- H Ilaratlona by G on oral Rodolfo Herreru H upon his arrival In Mexico City last I H night for tho purpose of rendering to H President do la Huerta an acco.unt of ' H n:s actions on tne morning 01 tiny jn 21 at Tlaxcalantongo, whore Carranr.n, , jH wan killed, General Hcrrcro a-wrtcd HH that he attacked 200 followers of Car- IH ranza. with eighty men and that tl'p ' H Carranza forces fled without attempt- 1 lng to defend tho president, who wrs H wounded, nnd who, on being a ban.- ' jl doned, &hot himself. 1 H May Call on Rod Cross, ' WM Every effort Is being mado by tua government to combat tho bubonic H plague at Vera Cruz. Orders havf H been issued making sanitary author!- H tier, there; the supremo power of the,. jl city, dominating t-ven military officer?. I HH I Twenty-five cases, the most of t H which have proved fatal, have been 1 reported from Vera Cruz since ilp I outbreak of the plague a week ago. H Two patients In a hospital here arc H under observation. H President de la Huerta stated yes- . tcrday he would, If necessary, accept ' H asalstanco from tho American p.e,d ,1 Cross, jl H 00 . . 1 1 1 |