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Show VILLA EXPECTED TO - May Also Attempt to Take Juarez; Refugees Arrive . With Report. EL PASO, Tex.. Jan. 10. Francisco Villa, defeated by Carranza troops In the vicinity of Jimenez and Parral, is expected ex-pected to begin a campaign soon against the de facto government in northern Chihuahua, Chi-huahua, with military operations between Chihuahua City and Juarez. Reports received here by government agents and from refugees arriving at the border from the interior say a column of Villa troops estimated at 3000 mounted men had crossed the Mexico Northwest-, ern railroad west of 'Chihuahua City and was moving north toward Santa Clara canyon. This new move Is believed here to be the resulL. of Villa's defeat by General Francisco Murguia and of the advance by General Manuel Dieguez with a large force of de facto troops to Tor-reon. Tor-reon. General Dieguez is considered one of Carranza's ablest officers and has a column col-umn of 10.000 men, it wAs said here today. to-day. Of this number 3000 are Yaqui Indians In-dians and 2000 Sonora Mexicans, known as brave fighters. His advance northward north-ward has forced Villa to confine his operations oper-ations to the northern zone and has caused the rebel leader to decide upon a campaign against Chihuahua City, Juarez and the garrisons between these two towns. The finding of letters on a Villa spy recently, offering amnesty to all Carranza soldiers and guarantees to all residents of these towns, strengthened the belief t hat Villa was planning to advance on the state capital and the border port. The spv was captured on a train coming to Juarez after he had delivered one of these letters at Chihuahua City, and said he was en route to Juarez to deliver the others. General Murguia was reported late today to-day to have entrained and started in pursuit pur-suit of Villa on four troop trains. Because babies werti suffering for want of milft, -00 women made a demonstration demonstra-tion at the state palace in Chihuahua City Saturday and demanded that the milk venders be permitted to enter frtom the surrounding country, according to passengers passen-gers arriving here today. The trouble is said to have resulted from an order issued by the military authorities au-thorities prohibiting the milkmen from entering the city with their supply. It was feared that rebel spies might in this wav smuggle Information from the capital" capi-tal" to Villa iit the mountains. After the demonstration Govorner Ar-nulfo Ar-nulfo Gonzales ordered the military authorities au-thorities to permit the milkmen to enter, but to examine them for concealed letters or papers before they left. |