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Show IE CONSUL IS FORCED TO RISK UFtpWl H. S. Cunard-Cummins Made to Visit Torreon Under Fir With Summons for Surrender Sur-render of the City. REBELS DEFEATED IN SAN PEDRO FIGHT Administration at Washington Washing-ton Anxious Regarding Outcome Out-come at Tampico; Fate of Spaniards Undecided. NOGALES, Sonora, April 9. Francisco E. TImbrres and Jose M. Ganebo will be executed hero tomorrow morning at 5 o'clock for their connection with a recent bridge burning raid. Constitutionalist Constitutional-ist soldiers captured sovoral of the raiders. EL PASO, Tex., April 9.. Reports of oppressive treatment inflicted by General Gen-eral Villa on II. S. Cunard-Cummins, acting British vico consul at Torreon, of the defeat of a rebel column sent against San Pedro and that tho federal General Vclasco had succeeded iu joining join-ing Goneral Hidalgo al Saltillo, where thoy had a joint command of 12,000 or 13,000 men, wcro brought hero today by two newspaper correspondents from Torreon. Hidalgo, thoy said, was trying try-ing to reach Torreon with reinforcements reinforce-ments when Velasco e'ac'uated that city. The correspondents .aid that whilo the sendiug of nows from the front was not entirely prohibited, it was censored so severely as to bo all but worthless. Villa, thc3 said, compelled Mr. Cunard-Cummins Cunard-Cummins to run the risk of carrying a demand for tho surrender of Torreon to Goneral Velasco, tho trip being made under protest and during which Mr. Cummins was fired, upon. Carothers's Report. Georgo C. Carotliers, special agent of tho state department at tho battle in tho report of the incident that he has mado to Washington, however, does not indicate that Mr. Cunard-Cummins was coerced into becoming General Villa's messenger, but states that ho did so with reluctance after first refusing. The report of Mr. Carothers to tho state department says: "At ! p. m. (March 27) Gonernl Villa Vil-la sent a mcssongor to soo Cummins, requesting re-questing htm to go to headquarters. I and II. W. Potter accompanied him. When wo arrived, after introducing Cummins, Villa said to him that ho knew that ho (Cummins) was an enemy to the constitutionalist cause; that he had information that Cummins was accustomed ac-customed to banqueting with tho federals; fed-erals; that ho know ho was a friend of General Velasco; that in viow of this friendship with Velasco ho wanted Cum mins to take a communication to Veins-co Veins-co in which ho domanded tho surrondor of the city to Villa. Tbo message was couched in terms usual in wartare in such cases. Cummins refused to tako tho message, arguing that ho was neutral neu-tral and should not mix in political affairs af-fairs of tho country. Villa Angry. "At this Villa bocamo angry and taid wo foreigners wero demanding that he protect foreigners and bo humanitarian humanita-rian in his nets, and that at tho very first opportunity givon us to do some good wo refused. He commenced to talk about probably having to fight all of iisK when I interposed and advised Cummins to go. "Villa said ho first thought of sending send-ing tho message bv me, bur, on second thought, had decided on Cummins, on uceount of bis friendship with Velasco, as ho would bo in no danger. Cummins agreed to go, so I wroto some instructions instruc-tions to Mr. Ulnicr. Cummins left about o o'clock, and was to return about nooti tho next day. The interview inter-view with Villa had n most serious aspect as-pect for a few moments, but, as it turned out, Villa aud ho shook hands, called each other amigos aud parted in tho best of spirits." Mr. Ulmcr, mentioned in the report, is I. M. TJlmor, United States consular agent at Torreon. Parted Friends. Mr. Carothers, when soen by a re-portor re-portor hero today, amplified his report to the 9tato department as follows: "Just before leaving Villa's headquarters. head-quarters. Villa called Ctiramins ?amigo Cummins turned to Villa and said: 'You call mo friend?' 'Yes, I call yon friend becnuso I waul you for niv "friend, ' responded Villa. Villa's last word to us was that ho left all arrangements ar-rangements about gotting away to us. "1 then walked toward Mr. O'Hca's houso with Cummins, but loft him be- (Continned on Pago Two.) VICE CONSUL FORCED JO RISK HIS LIFE (Continued from Pago One.) foro reaching there, in ordor to cot a handenr. T saw Cummins enter CiXca's house with a .British flaj; and a flag o truce, T bad been unablo to col; a handenr, so Cummin6 said lie would go ou foot, as it was getting lato and he did not want to make tho trip in tho dark. Cummins did not. niako any complaint com-plaint to me of coercion then of later. On hia return on tho 30th ho was most cordially rocoived by Villa, who .cm-braced; .cm-braced; 'him and thanked him for what ho had done." Mr. O'llca. montionod by Mr. Caroth-crs, Caroth-crs, is Patrick O'Hea, recoutly appointed appoint-ed to succoed Mr, Cunard-Cummins as British vico consul. Cummins had ro-fipned, ro-fipned, but was still acting as vice consul. |