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Show Rebels, Federals Prepare to Clash Vi 'I 1 ' Long-Predicted Engagement In Sonora Is In Prospect; U. S. Troops Doing Border Duty Reinforced NOG ALES, Ariz., April 23. (IMi) Battery B of the 52nd United States field artillery from Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, arrived here today for borde'r duty during the present Mexican revolution. MEXICO CITY, April 23. (U.W The long-predicted Sonora engagement engage-ment bet ween federals and rebels j appeared more imminent today as the government's troops began cloa-! cloa-! ing in on the insurgents from two ' sides. Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, commanding command-ing tho west coast army, advised the government late last night his cavalry had arrived at Luis, Sonora, 12 hii miles south of Masiaca, where Lhe rc'bcls have entrenched themselves. them-selves. Meanwhile, Gen. Juan Almnzan, of the Chihuahua army, was en route with 10,000 men from Casas Grandes to Sonora, via Pulpito canyon, can-yon, planning to attack the rebels . from the rear. NOG ALES. Sonora, Me., April 23. a'.I!) While the main rebel army continued preparation at Masiaco in southern Sonora, for a major battle with a federal column advancing from Sinaloa, the only skirmish of the past 24 hours was reported in the eastern part of the state. |