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Show MURGUIA'S VICTORY IS CONFIRMED BY PRIVATE ADVICES EL PASO, Texas. Jan. 6. Parral is expected to be the scene of the next general engagement between the forces of Francisco Villa and the Carranza troops of the north, under command of General Francisco Murguia. Villa has fled to that place, with General Murguia Mur-guia in pursuit, according to the latest report received here by Carranza Consul Con-sul Soriano Bravo. Genera Murguia. on board a locomotive locomo-tive captured at Jimenez, reported making mak-ing a reconnoitering expedition for nine miles up the branch railroad to Parral. Villa partisans here claimed that the ' official report of the Jimenez battle, given out today, was exaggerated, but the fact of the victory was substantiated substantiat-ed today by private telegrams received by American mining men from Jimenez. |