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Show P000 IS SCARCE IS MM CAPITAL Much Suffering Predicted; Villa Troops Again Defeat Carranza Soldiers. EL PASO, Feb. 3. Francisco Villa has proclaimed himself in charge of the presidency of Mexico. Mex-ico. This was announced in a tele-gram tele-gram from General Villa received tonight by his agents here. Villa appointed three ministers to take charge of the civil government. WASHINGTON, Fob. li. Scarcity I of food in Alexioo City and predictions that much suffering would follow unless conditions were relieved were reported in officials dispatches to the slate department de-partment today. The Carranza officials are moving their records to Vera Cruz, where it is supposed the capital of the Carranza government will remain. Much anxiety was manifested here by members of the diplomatic corps over condii ions in Mexico City because of the ban on cipher communication which has been placed by tho Carranza an-thorit an-thorit ies. Local telegraph officials fid the Carranza government in Mexico City had notified them not to accept messages in code from foreign governments govern-ments except at the sender 'a risk and subicct to interruption. ThiH is the first time, it is paid, that the foreign diplomats have had seriouH difficulty in reaching their legations in Mexico V'ity. State department officials are getting their tftJegrams through, but with much delay. Alij-eo ArrHondo, head of the local const itut ion a list, agency, made public tonight the following report from Vera Cruz: " General Pa bio Gn za Irs reports t h" capture of Caderpyta jn the state of (Continued on Pago Three.) FDODIS SCARCE MEXICAN CAPITAL (Continued from Page One.) Nuevo Leon, fifteen miles east of Monterey. Tho Villa forces were decisively de-cisively defeated and suffered heavy losses. "Between Montemorelos and Linares, General Marino Sandaval, commanding a Villa army, was overwhelmed and .forced to retreat to tho north. "Tomorrow (Thursday) railroad traffic traf-fic will be resumed between this place and Mexico City. On account of tho scarcity of food in the capital, the Vera Cruz chamber of commerce has arranged to send supplies there by the nrst train." EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 3. Following their defeat at .San Luis Potosi, the Carranza troops again were routed yesterday yes-terday south of that place, according to official Villa advices received hero today. to-day. It was stated that the Villa column col-umn under General Ba,nda utterly routed the retreating Carranza forces of Gcncrnl Bcuavides, ca pturing all their artillery and supply trains and many prisoners. SAN DIEGO, Cab, Feb. 3. A radiogram radio-gram to Rear Admiral Howard, on board the flagship San Diego here, received re-ceived today from Mazatlau, reported that General Iturbe, a Villa partisan, stormed Acaponeta last Monday, alter seven hours of fighting, and captured sixty prisoners. His own wounded nrr being transported to Mazatlan. Tho cruiser San Diego left here todav for Fnsejiada, to investigate condition--there. " , |