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Show Sentinels Turn Traitors and Fire Into Shelter Where President Sleeps. GEN. MURGUI FIGHTS VALIANTLY IN NIGHT Loyalty and Courage of Carranza Car-ranza Followers Useless Against Outlaws. MEXICO CITY, May 23. (By The Associated Press). A dispntch received re-ceived from Juan Barracan, chief of staff of President Carranza, says Car-ranza Car-ranza met his death at the hands of General Rodolfo Herreo's forces at Tlaxcalantongo. The dispatch did not give the exact date. The dispatch follows: fol-lows: "Villa Juarez, State of Puebla, May 22. To General Alvaro Obregon: Sentlnelo Turn Traitor. "Referring to your telegram of this date. Kerrero Joined tho column at Patla, professing loyalty. Arriving aL Tlaxcalantonto, Herrero offered hospi tallty to Carranra, placing sentinels who Imew tho terrain. At 4 o'clock Jn the morning, the men abusing the confidence Imposed in them, surrounded surround-ed tho shelter where Carranza was sleoping, firing their rifleB furiously into the hut. Every one offered resistance, re-sistance, although with the natural tle- ilization caused by tho unexpected "General Francisco Murguia fought valiantly in the obscurity (semi-darkness) repulsing tho traitors, who surprised sur-prised tho defenders when they were leaving their sholters to attack the enemy. "The unexpectedness of the attack enables us to clear our military honor. hon-or. The defense was general to such an extent that the attackers were forced to lake sixty prisoners, among them Mario Mendez, Paulino Fontos, Gil Garias, General Hollodoro Perez, Colonel Ghe Gomez, General Villela and Carranza's military aide. "Mendez formerly was director of tho national telegraph lines, Fontes was former director of national railways, rail-ways, and Senor Oarias was Carranza's private secretary.) "Our conscience 16 clear. Our grief for the death of the president is inconsolable. in-consolable. We are satisfied that we did not abandon him for one moment Kill Sleeping President "The few men wounded and dead is explained by tho fact that the attackers attack-ers planned their crime, knowing tho place whore the president, who had placed his confidence in Herrero, was sleeping. The loyalty and courage of tho president's followors were useless against the treason of those criminals." crimin-als." The message was signed by Barrag-an Barrag-an and Marciano Gonzales, Feder'ico Montes, Francisco de H. Maria and others. The flags on the American embassy and all the other -embassies and legations le-gations were placed at half-mast when the news of the assassination of President Pres-ident Carranza arrived. |