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Show OBHEGDN HOLDS mpitiii. CITY FOfjjpia First Chief Remains at Vera Cruz; Zapata Forces Still in Occupation of Outlying Out-lying Suburbs. VILLA WOUNDED AT AGUAS CALIENTES Injury Said to Be Slight, ' but News Concerning Affray Af-fray Is Suppressed;, Leaders in Hiding. WASHINGTON, Jan. SO, Sonera Obregon rules at Mexico City la the name of General Carranza, first chief of tie constitutionalists, who Is at Vera trua, General Villa is at Aguas Calientes, Cal-ientes, General Zapata at Ouernavaca, and the whereabouts of Gonzalez Garza and Eulalio Gutierrez, lately successively successive-ly In charge of the executive power in Merico City, are unknown. This geographical distribution of the various chiefs in Mexico, is shown In advices today to the state department. Three distinct movements, independent of each other, are in the field, with forces of varying magnitude. General Carranza, at the head of a large part of the original constitutionalist forced, will remain at Vera Cruz which, it is understood, will continue as the capital of his government, notwithstanding the occupation of Mexico City by General Obregon 's men. ' Menaced by Zapata. The forces of General Zapata menace the line of communications between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. They are still said to be working in harmony v.ith the Villa forces, under the authority author-ity of the convention government. In the north, the Carranza forces hold San Luis Potosi and are threatening Monterey, which is held by Genera Felipo Angeles, chief lieutonant of General Gen-eral Villa. The latter, at Aguas Cal-ientes. Cal-ientes. is preparing a southward movement move-ment against Queretaro, where some of the forces of General Gutierrez are reported re-ported to have assembled. Dispatches to the Carranza agency here say that Gonerals Eobles. Luci'o Blanco and Aguirre Benavidcs, who fled from Mexico City with Eulalio Gutierrez, Gutier-rez, have joined the Carranza movement, bnt nothing is known of the intentions of Gutierrez himself. General Obregon at Mexico City was officially reported as disclaiming any combination with Gutierrez. Although the siege of Puebla is said to have Been abandoned by Zapata, his forces are still in occupation o the farthest far-thest outlying suburbs of Mexico City, according to state department Teports. |