| Show ZAPATAS ZAPATA'S ARMY SUFFERS DEFEAT BELOW CAPITAL His Former Stronghold in Mountain Range South of Mexico City Now Occupied by General Carra Carranza's zas za's Forces GENERAL VILLA DENIES REPORT OF HIS DEFEAT Wires Washington Agency If I Am Apparently Retreating Retreating Retreating Retreat Retreat- ing We Will Soon Show I Have Not Lost My Strength IS NOW MOVING TO NORTH W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON N Jt July 16 Generah Gener General l lZapata I I Zapatas Zapata's 8 arm array army driven from Mexico City and retreating southward southward southward south south- ward has been routed rout by pursuing Carranza troops in the valley below the capital according to a dispatch I today f from om General C Carranza to his agency here The message dated at Vera rera Cruz j today follows I am Informed by General Gonzalez that Generals Coss Zepeda Sanchez I Garcia and Machuca and Colonels I Flores and Gomez hare havo routed the at Contreras causing them theta to lose men capturing five locomotives a large number of ot box boxcar boxcars boxcars cars car nine cannon over rounds of or ammunition two machine guns uns several cases of cannon shells the tho entire entire en en- tire Ure hospital service and a large Quantity Quan uan of or mixed merchandise The Aguas count county range rane of mountains on the southern edge of oC the federal district and extending into the states of Morelos Morelos More More- los the former ormel stronghold of Zapata and his following h has s been occupied by constitutionalist forces This en engagement engagement on- on practically clears th the valley ot of Mexico of oC Villa lIIa Still Confident Reports of or mn military tan activity from ot other er parts of- of or Mexico reached the state to today r messages from consular sources asserting asserting- General Villas Villa's forces in the coal region near and Hermanas had won in skirmishes with Carranza's troops troop Reports to tho the Villa agency here confirmed confirmed con con- firmed previous lre statements that Villa had moved north from Aguas Call Call- advance rance northward sal sala said saida a issued by the Villa a agency fits into a a. strategic plan which it would be unwise to disclose at this time In accordance with v this plan I General Villa has moved mo north of oC Agnes Aguas 8 holding Zacatecas General Villa himself lt wired the confidential agency denying the report that he had been defeated and was moving mo his army Irmy to Torn Torreon on lie ito said Wo Yo have ha not been defeated and If I am apparently retreating we will soon show how the Ct 1 havo have not lost my strength Obregon's communication communication com corn with his base of supplies has been cut off ocr for tOl almost ten days and the Vera Yera Cruz Crux reports of oC his movements move move- monts ments cannot be accounted for Cor Military Outlined In a statement reviewing the military mili mill- tar tary situation the Villa agency tonight made the following claims Con Convention forces opera operate to f in n the states of or Tobasco Campeche Nuevo Leon Sinaloa Tamaulipas Jalisco Michoacan Ml- Ml 11 Yucatan the federal district and In ln northern and southern Vera era Cruz In ln tho the following states the convene con tion forces hold more territory than the enem enemy Guerrero Pu lu Puebla bla Tlaxcala Mexico Hidalgo 1 Guanajuato Quere- Quere taro San Luis Luls Potosi Aguas Coahuila Coahulla and the territory of oC Topic Convention forces control the states of or Sonora Zacatecas Chihuahua More More- los Durango and northern Lower LOel Call Cali fornia The control Chiapas Chia Chia- pas territory of oC Quintana Roo Colima Collma and southern bouthern Lower California The tate state of 0 Oaxaca has maintained neu neu- Advices to the state department to toda today today to- to da day were were- that Mexico City remained quiet luiet with food conditions improving Six carloads of or was as d by hy bythe bythe hythe the American Red Cross from Galveston Gal within ten da days s J II Dr Dou Douglas louglas las Ariz riz July Tuly Jul 16 Word Word that most of oC the towns town along the thc vo and antI Sonora rivers Ii In I f eastern and cenI central cen eon Sonora are aro dry do because of the I prohibition edict I Issued gued recent recently h by I General Calle i Can Can- Carranza commander was waa brought hl here herc today by arrivals I from the south A A score of oC mescal II distilleries was lestro cd cd 01 by the thc troops and the liquor poured Into the th streets |
