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Show CARRANZA WILL SOON REAPPEAR IN MEXICO CITY WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. General Car-: ranza now hay moved all the departments of his government from Vera Cruz to Mexico City ami again is preparing to go lo the capital himself, according to official Infoi mat Ion received here today. The ministers or" foreign affairs and war were the last to leave. Advices to the state department indi-ctite indi-ctite that General Candida Agullar, the Cananza commander, has launched a vigorous vig-orous campaign against the bands which have been interrupting railway communication communi-cation between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. According to telegraphic reports dated today from Vera Cruz, Carranza forces already have engaged some of the bands between Esperanza and Tehuacam. Train Wrecked and Burned. Other reports to the department from Vera Cruz said that in a wreck on the Mexican railway north of Apizaco, September Sep-tember 21. a freight truin carrying supplies sup-plies for Mexico City was blown up and burned. The engine was detached from the train and escaped before the wreckers wreck-ers could reach It. Members of the train guai'd were reported to have been killed. The bride on the Interoceanic railroad, twenty-five miles from Vera Cruz, was said to have been destroyed. Reports from Chihuahua said the retirement re-tirement northward of the Villa army was being carried out in good order. A few Americans remain in Chihuahua and no foreign residents other than Americans Ameri-cans have left the city since the withdrawal with-drawal of the main Villa force. The message mes-sage made no mention of an impending attack by Carranza troops. Villa Force in Rear. Advices to the Villa agency today reported re-ported a Villa expeditionary force in possession of Zacatecas. No details of the expedition were given as to its number or as to how it had so suddenly appeared ap-peared in that territory. The report indicated in-dicated a Villa force behind the Carranza army which has been advancing against the main Villa body to the north. Enrique C. Llorente, un oehalf of the Villa government of Mexico, filed with the state department and the Pan-American conference a formal declaration that the constitution of Mexico provides for acknowledgment of national debts exclusively ex-clusively by the Mexican congress and that any obligations undertaken by General Gen-eral Carranza would lack validity. |