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Show OARRANZA REFUSES I TO TALK OF BENTON NOG A LESS, Sonora, Mexico, Feb. 2C General Vcnustlano Carranza. leader of the constitutionalists, who arrived here today, rnfinic.d lo discuss the case of William Wil-liam Benlon. the Hrltlsh subject who was executed In Culdad Juarez by order of Generul Villa. "Why should I tell what I am soinp to do?" was the query with which lie blocked qucstlona as io what action he would take In tho ca.e. General Carranza said that, according to the official report to him, Benton's death was the result of an attempt he had mado upon the life of General Villa. It was declared that he had boon tried legally and sentenced to doalh. The reasons rea-sons for General Villa's tardy report of l.Mi case were not made known Besides General Carranza, who arrived here from Magdalena, where he passed last night, there are congregated In No-gales No-gales tho principal chiefs of the insurgent in-surgent forces on the west coast of Mexico. Mexi-co. Among them arc General Lucio Blanco, who was to have begun an expedition ex-pedition southward from Cullacan: General Gen-eral Juan Cabral, commander of the Indian In-dian troops of' southern Sonora, and General Gen-eral Alvarado Obrcgon, commander of the Insurgent troops In northwestern Mexico. It was stated that plans would be completed com-pleted for tho future campaign In northern north-ern Mexico before General Carranza. started for Chihuahua |