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Show THREE TOWNS ARE TAKEN BY BANDS OF VILLISTAS EL PASO, Nov. 4.Government agents here received what they efaim to be reliable information today that Santa. Rosalia, Parral and Jimenez have been taken by Villa bandits. It is not known whether these towns were held by the bandits after their capture. ! American mining men also received 1 what they claim as additional confirmation confirma-tion today of the report that Parral was i taken on Tuesday. I The government agents claim to have I reports showing that General Luis Her-I Her-I rera moved out of Parral before the ap-I ap-I proach of the Villa bandits and retired j to San Francisco del Oro, in the moun-' moun-' tains near Parral. It is believed by J 1 state department officials that the Americans in Parral accompanied this' ! column. I An employee of a Parral mining com- J pany arrived hero today by way of Tor- i reon. Mexico, and Eagle Pa??,JTexas, : and said Parral was in the hands of the Carranza forces when he left there nn October 27. He said he. had talked with Carranza soldiers at Jimenez who had had their ears cut off by Villa bandits at Santa. Rosalia. The mining man added that the soldiers report that the bandits had unspeakably mutilated at least ten of the Carranza soldiers at Santa Rosalia. |