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Show VILLA ENGAGES IN BATTLE WITH CARRANZISTAS CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico. Aug. 31. Francisco Villa, commanding a band of .between 3U0 and 400 men, en-paged en-paged government trooos under General Gen-eral EHzondo in a sanguinary battle yesterday in the hills east of Satevo, which lasted from daviiht until darkness. dark-ness. The casualties on both sides were heavy, those of the bandits being estimated esti-mated by General EHzondo, in a report to General Jacinto Trevino here today, at about 150 in killed, wounded arid captured. No estimate of the Carranssa losses were made, but it is believed they are almost as heavy, the command engaged en-gaged numbering about 500. Tho Carranza forces withdrew at darkness to Santa Ysabel, after Villa had retired to a well-fortified position. Revolutionists, under the Chavez brothers, made an unsuccessful attempt today to induce the garrison at Villa Ahumadn, tho field base in northern Chihuahua, to mutiny, dispatches to General Trevino said. Seven of the alleged al-leged lenders in the plot have been arrested ar-rested and are to be brought here for trial. |