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Show NUMBER OF ARABS AND CHINESE ARE SLAIN BY BANDITS CHIirUAHCA CITY, Mexico. Nov. 4. Villa bandits in command of General Baudelio Uribe executed a number of Chinese and Arab residents of Santa Rosalia on October 26. refugees arriving arriv-ing from Santa Rosalia overland reported re-ported here. Genera Uribe in a speech delivered after the capture of the town accused foreigners of lying enemies of Villa's cause and then ordered tho summary sum-mary execution of the Chinese and Arab residents, the refugees added. It is not known whether foreigners of other nationalities were executed. After capturing tho town, General Uribe gave all prisoners the . choice of having their ears severed from their heads or of being executed, the refugee refu-gee stated. Manv of the prisoners are said by thosr refugees to have accepted accept-ed death rather than lifelong mutilation. mutila-tion. The town was then looted, the refugees refu-gees reporfct, -and the women camp followers fol-lowers of the Carranza troops were mistreated mis-treated by tho bandits, according to every witness who arrived here. Tliev reported General Tribe's com- mand had moved south toward Jiminez and Parral. |