Show I I l VILLA REA BEATEN I TEN AT IN FURIOUS FIGHT WITHDRAW WITH LOSS LOSSi i pu aw Leader Makes I Ineffectual Ineffectual Attempt to Carry by Assault Trenches Protecting Pro Pro- ro- ro City and Gives After Hour 7 Battle BattIe Up Jp 1 I 1 OF TREVINO PURSUING MARAUDERS 1 i on Santa Rosa 1 J Hill Rakes Advancing j il Lines Many Bandits Captured Captured Cap- Cap lured in Sortie of Cavalry Supported by hy Big Guns GulLS 1 J BRIGANDAGE R. R RAMPANT IP ANT El Paso Tex TeL Nov 23 Francisco Fran Fran- t cisco Villa W Is Bu V V in big ing forc forces s in defeat from Chi Chihuahua hi- hi City at o'clock tonight tonight to to- night after a battle of seven hours during which he made fruitless attempts to carry General Gent Gen Gen- t 1 eral Trevino's Trevino 8 protecting prot works by assault The de facto troops are now pursuing the bandits toward the south the samo same report from irom Chihuahua City stated f J JUAREZ l Ie Mexico ico Nor Nov 23 Three Three j times today Francisco Franciseo Villa attacked attacked at- at tp tacked the first line trenches which 1 defend Chihuahua City and three times ho lie JO was repulsed leaving his dead and wounded on the plains out out- side i-side of the tho cit city to the south rout according accord- accord ling ing to military dispatches received by byI I Gen l Francisco cisco Gonzales at military headquarters here from the besieged tit city At t 11 o'clock a a. a. a m. m to today mountain the high ned crowned hats hals of ot the tho bandits were seen en to the tho south alon along tho Mexican Central main line according accord- accord ln In ing to thc theo o me messages ga The Tho battle was opened ened a few minutes later hater with a If salvo from cannon In Santa Rosa nasa hill lull h the key to the thic state capitaL The first Land and second lino line trenches protected by p barbed wire entanglements took up the K i fighting and by br- noon a general on on- on was wa In progress along tho the K entire southern front which continued i through the early afternoon 3 OO Men Ien In Villa Command j At that time the booming of or tho the Juc call caliber r guns uns on Santa Rosa and uld Continued on Page 2 2 VILLA REA BEATEN TEN AT CHIHUAHUA CITY 1 I Bandits Withdraw TT South Southward ward Pursued by General Tre Trevino's vino's vinos Troops I ii to Continued From Page 1 other ther r artillery u stationed at it Interval i along the first lino line trenches was s se sc tIc deafening that it ft was we-s almost ImpossiblE io to o lJ r tho tim click of ot tho the telegraph in the military operator at Chihuahua Chi City told the operator IT Jr Juarez At 3 o'clock tho the battle attIC was still ragIng rag rag- Ing In- th the th apparent a antage ad being heing with the government forces Villa iIla Is ts reported by C General Gonzale tb to have at least 1500 men practically tI call all of oC whom arc are armed antI and mounted lIe Jle Ie Is also believed to havo machine puns but no hea heavy artillery For reason reason j-cason thi the twenty or moro more heavy hav field fielt guns uns of or General Tre command were able to rake the advancing lines of hr t Villa bandits the messages from irom the state capital stated Tho field fiel was strown row n with lead dead and dying dying- men one message stated A sortie by r Carranza Carz-anza cn cavalry lr supported supported supported sup- sup ported b by artillery resulted in Ln the capture capture cap cap- ture hire of or many Villa VUla prisoners who were without i ammunition and had hud gone since morning without food or water another message ge declared ReI Artillery Rely on Carranza Cari-anza officers here are optimistic regarding the tho outcome mo of tho the battle at Chihuahua City The only cause causa of oC worry to them Is th the tM fact that General Tro inos ammunition supply r for tor small arms inns and machine guns uns ts hi z limited ted and Jt H. is feared the attack will be prolonged prolonged pro pro- longed longed- by VilIa b Villa in an effort eUort to exhaust this ammunition supply IIo the supply of artillery shells hells Is amI ample I It f Is said to keep the bandits away n from the city It was hoped by b- bUto the tho Mexican military that Gen Francisco Fr co Mur ula and his liis hism Hi m vis sion ton from Torreon would reach Chihuahua soon oon but lato lalo to today clay a n. message roes mes sage ngo was received d in Juarez saying General had had driven the Villa forces out of oC Santa H and was wag advancing slowly from that place to toward toward toward to- to ward Chihuahua City rebuilding the railroad line lino as a. ho moved north Efforts are being made to obtain i j and machine ammunition to bo be ent to General Gt Trevino Tre In order to prevent a shortage o of or ammunition re All of tho the available ammunition ammunition tion ion has been sent from here hero and it is reported th that t a request renest has been ml made c to American officials to permit ammunition ammu ammu- to be bo sent through tho El Paso- Paso Juarez port for Cor General Tied Trevino's nos no's I Through Through h an error in a n message e early cath in the day General aur ula was lo located located lo- lo I at Mapula twelve miles south of or Chihuahua CIl City and th the hopes of ot Car- Car Tant officers for or an early arlY reinforcement reinforce reinforce- ment of or the garrison th tl there cre were raised however howe it was wa found Cound that the message ness e referred to Villa instead of or i who was said to be bo at Santa J ofalia oralia some ome distance further south Toni Tonight ht it was w said here that Villa sent the first message in the h ham name mo of General Murga u which was characterized harac as a typical Villa trick designed d to mislead the tho Carranza authorities Villa is thought to have sent t. t the message n e from Mapula Mapul G Wounded d. d General 1 rj ino co the Carranza forces es was wounded during the fighting In the early afternoon while p personally directing tl g tho the fighting from rom the vicinity of or Santa Ro Rosa a hill Jen- Jen n. n Francisco Gonzales announced to tonight to- to night t after receiving a message from Chihuahua City I i. i General Trevino returned to the city to have hae a s scalp alp wound on the right side of his head dressed at the military hos hos- pital With a bandage his head he r returned to hi his po post pom t at field headquarters headquarters head head- quarters and continued l the direction of ot otc the he c Carranza forces on the firing line Une At 10 o'clock clock the military authorities in Chihuahua City telegraphed tele- tele graphed to General Gonzales In Juarez that Gen Carlos OLun in command o othe ot of the tho Carranza cavalry was pursuing Villa bandits south In the thc direction of ot Mapula ap la and tho the cavalry IT column was rc- rc t to io be ten miles south of ot Santa Rosa 1 i Because Be of or the darkness it was tin tin- possible to estimate the tho number of or dead on tho the battlefield as the attention of ot the Carranza hospital corps and md civilian cl helpers was directed toward ministering minister minister- ing to the tho wants of the wo wounded Re Re Repays pays ays of workers were working tonight r removing the wounded to the military hospitals and private homes in Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihua Chihua- hua City where the they arc are being cared for Cor forby by the women of ot the volunteer r Red fled RedCross Cross organization 4 At dawn tomorrow a 3 careful search will Wm be ma made o of ot the battlefield for tor dead Villa officers it was annot announced lr Is tonight where it was wac said there J i was a e. possibility that man many of ot commanders may havo have been killed b bj I. I the heavy artillery and anti rifle fire Ire of th the Carranza forces City Well ell Guarded El Paso Nov 23 The t.-The The following de de- of ot the Cl Chihuahua City defenses defenses de de- h was prepared in advance by br th thi thE i Associated Press correspondent there I who is a a. a. a retired arm army officer p Santa Rosa hill dominates the and surrounding terraine It Is forti fortl fled with seven cannon of ot largo calibre j It It commands the approaches to tt the cit from the south south southeast cast and southwest south west vest and makes possible Ol the of ot the plains below with shrapnel and machine gun fire All temporary derc defenses s which were hastily thrown up when it was thought Villa would attack have been beon replaced with permanent defenses These lines of ot trenches stretch for a distance of fourteen kilometers Five strong earthen redoubts each cach having a a. ca capacity c- c of OO men support the infantry trenches and are provided pro with artillery artillery artil artil- Jer lery at Intervals to support any movement movement movement move move- ment of this arm of the de facto forces These defensive works were placed In char charge ot of Gen Gonzales Mueller who Is 15 a graduate g of Chapultepec military academy and who h with Ith General Trevino a against Villa in the Ebano campaign campaign cam cam- m in the thc cast eastern rn zone Ho lie has approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately seasoned veterans in his command man many of ot whom fought with him at Ebano In addition to stone breastworks the cU city Is protected by by a D. double row of ot barbed wire entanglements and other modern defenses The infantry is di divided dl- dl vided hIed into detachments of or men each with each detachment equipped with modern machine guns The cavalry arm um is also equipped with machine gu guns s sand and is ready to take the field in purI pursuit pursuit pur pur- I suit of the cri enemy at any time the tho I horses being corralled near the cavalry positions The artillery ery is in command of Col Silva Sanchez another graduate of oC Chapultepec academy Bandits are arc gathering in the vicinity of ot Guzman on the Mexican Northwestern Northwest em ern railway about seventy five miles southwest of or Juarez a report received by United States government o agents agent here toda today stated This Tills is near tho place where a t. train was fired upon yesterday by bandits A for force of bandits said to be in command com corn mand of Silvestre tre Quevedo is at Santa SantaMaria SantaMaria Maria Marla near Guzman according to this same information The purpose of ot this bandit force torce is said to be to cut the Mexico Northwestern railway Guzman Is only thirty miles from the American lino line or of communication |