Show UtA'S Ls VICTORY r M STAMPS HIM f ft t MIliTARY G GENIUS EN IU 5 Y r rand Time an and l Was Pre Prepared Prepare aced J f for or Stubborn Resistance Careful Plans Win Admiration T Or REON y Mexico exico April 3 lir r ms rosy y have ha boon bon tho the opinions held beld i 7 military exports regarding tho the abili- abili of lOr f Gen Francisco Villa all aco aro lir agreed that this plain aid uncouth In i from the tho h hills is a natural born genius cenius en i h very ery deliberations and accurate redness of tho the man in his as assault lI this ii hi city which ended in an over over- elming victory stamps stamps him pim AS us a level level- ed strategist j t an and army en engineer doying doin do- do ying in in of rank with ith great military ry menders of history in tho the p past st st. reh D n experts who have ha accorn- accorn ped ed e th the rebel on tho the march h hi are arc today standing in in awe AWO and jn of f this this' sullen and nud half half- f chief hH f whose ho farseeing ins plans plan for tsal ual victors victors' victory did not 1101 como to light eit lull entirety until toda today IT rj the exasperating delays ho he inan In in in- lon on an are all understood he knew would be e a cruc crucial I and md stu stub stub- b. b c and ho he made mad his Lis plans accord accord- accord accord- K 1 Control Northern Section a victor victory ictor gives Ahe the tho rebels c of or tho central part art of hern em em Mexico GOO miles south from Rid j io Grande full effect cannot be summarized but in prestige and power I said its value is incalculable It certain t t to make mako recruiting a corn com com I lively U simple matter and holders I the he constitutionalist fiat money tot to to- lit t predicted a sudden riso rise in tho thor j r en business is resumed tom tomor- tomor or- or fa It Jt was waa soiling selling at 20 cents to tho the ri dollar toda today Villa Take Monterey ether Villa will Win turn aside asido to take terey an imp important city to the theor theor or to tho west a against Mazat Mazat- azat- azat j held by tho federals is not known v his plans to himely him him- ely Eq Equipped Force he force torce sent a against was lar largest est and best beat equipped of any the revolutions which began with the tho oil It of or Francisco Madero four years eara Villa claimed to have 1000 men ron conservative o ervaU estimates gave Jd him himor J or or 1010 hey they went south fUll fully uniformed with for 1 tor lor a month and 2000 rounds of am am- to the tho man than 11 Faulty Ammunition in any any of crt their losses were due duc to the thc that some of or the m home made lo ailed aUed to work and to the fact that OD 6 cartridges cH ca said to h have ve been ht hl In a a. job Job lot failed to work It said Mid they were manufactured 1 many a II fre rs re ago aio and that the powder had dc- dc orated to an extent that the bullets l knot not more than twenty feet ome me of ot tho the rebels are arc said eald to have nave 8 1 into tinto action with these cartridges In it Ir belts Took His Time Timo Kt Juarez and at Chihuahua for we weeks ks la waited while every ory detail was bc bc- He lie realized perfectly that B campaign would probably probably- go far tar to the de the whole fate of oC the time war and Kiting tang Ung b by tho experience of oC previous rotations where haste had led to diser dis- dis lerr er he declined to be hurried be T Mexican equivalent of oC On to nond fell tell on deaf deat cars so eo far Car a as was PiM concerned pfd pM fire tire guns guns' wore were rushed to Juarez th the Atlantic seaboard and from Eu- Eu Ammunition arrived In Jn car ear lots lota and everything seemed ready but still waited alted Id J Perfected perfected Water Supply ri month or more ago o the embargo on was V was raised and It was thought i at last Villa would move mo but he eat sat in his at Ju Juarez rez Then P day aay a a. month ago ho gave avo avo his staff Jeers cars a half halt hours hour's nonce notice and the they Jf e elot off of after tho the troops that had reed re- re ed them Then the reason for the ay carne camo out I o lIa perfected my water ater supply Villa It It was my most serious b Tom Details at Chihuahua hua it t t Chihuahua there WR was waa more moro delay delav delat L t ft a tremendous amount of oC work w was s ng accomplished Villa carried every aI Wi aU in his own head and arut was cease cease- ly 1 y active inspiring and urging on his Q 1 when ho was read ready for tor the next e of the movement south every evory de- de r had been worked wonted out welve Twelve troop and supply trains were ero patched from Chihuahua at ton minute reals n without a n hitch h. h Tho The thin ad- ad nce line of ot federals retreated before and he took with a rush bushing a new now base tI there This S inset not nOl delay the onward rush of ot time the bele eh he dust t. t of unloading horses and antI m Jn settled when columns were sent at t and south couth and the tho news of the theas theng JUng ng of ot n i o was as still sUII fresh when wimon portH 0 ortH of cf the e tall fall of or f clUes cities in fit the Torn Tor- Tor n district began to arrive e he conflicts in these were not nol so ISO far as S' time the number of or men was concerned with the Tm n 0 of the fight at t Sacramento The he fight occurred on the tho banks bank of or an all gation ditch and the time losses losel while not ft t definitely announced were admittedly V vy y on both sides ders Iders War Wu Students rhen en a a. bulletin received that Brit Brit- Mm Junction within six miles of or ormen men and controlling Important rail rail- d had bad been heen taken stu- stu t te-ot te of oC th the campaign wore were fairly aghast th rapidity of oC the tho rebel movements movement Palacio a n city of oC persons arsons ur 1 r miles from Torren presented presented limo the tho r t great ob obstacle Were Jere ere Gen Refugio the the federal federal amender er had uld laid crafty plans of oC tic tic- de nse se Ie led ed ed Keep at Work e rebels full of C confidence So Som m ift ln were all of ot victory that many of W wounded mounded limped limped alon along with their thew in their blood soaked soaker uniforms p first attack on the town appeared have resulted in an easy euy victory vIctor and a B telegram m was sent Rent back hack to tore re rez but it Jt lord had scarcely been ticked y whon when the tho fe federals appeared with at oat u suddenness d in overwhelming numa num- num a II he rebels wore waro mowed down from try quarter end and retreated in n confusion o O O. Overlooks Chance lit t t has hu been Bald ald that they might have whipped then and there had Velas- Velas k who had brought most of oC his army armyo lo o the city and Its itA environs pursued L advantage jr Iio did not how however and anda J a the iha next day a second l r attack It w was made at night and was unsuccessful It was not until then that he he- realized that hat Velasco had bad chosen Gomez for a general ena engagement Discerns Opponents Opponent's Plans The rebel robel leader knowing his enemy a at t last brought up reinforcements In Including In- In eluding the time column that had oc occupied Lerdo Jerdo without opposition rind the tho next attack was successful The federals fought ought with desperation from house to house louse anI and 10 losses looses seA were era heavy on en n both sides side For days das trains of or wounded crawled north with their suffering pas pas- Deafness Aids The rhe dead were still lUll in the streets last Friday FrIda v when hen Gon Gen Herrera be began began be be- gan san th the attack on Torreon Herrera is 18 partially deaf deat and his high courage has bean een humorously attributed attributed d b by hl his the do- do voted followers to the tho allegation alle that thal at hn he cannot hear heal tho the bullets lie He cut through a section of oC Torreon with such rapidity that hat at first It appeared that tho the te fed exhausted nt at Gomez would wouldn ho be n unable to offer more moro than a pretense of resistance reactance The Tho mistake was quickly realized however in tho the da days that followed fol- fol owed lowed These positions were taken and re rt re- re taken talen Reports Reports s of or Impending victory w ware ro followed follo by long periods of lr which were er plainer lamer than words spoken In n the lh closeness of or th the tho tit struggle Hand lIand Grenades Valuable a le Villas Villa's Important nl hand Jr grenades n ran fan short and required Incessant labors until untila a n. n new W supply was wan mad made They were considered con con- Iden a M as much of the IhA fighting righting was from rom tho the housetops housetop the tho mud mUr walls of which protrude above tho time flat roofs At short tango range tho the artillery was of ot little u use p except to 10 sweep sweep th the tho streets These were werl barricaded everywhere and many a desperate encounter r occurred over their p Prisoners to Swell Rebel Robel Ranks Tuesday Tuelda afternoon last It seemed almost al- al most mc-Ht certain that the tho town had fallen Reports to this effect however howe proved pro and It i is I. said ald that Ui time the most I desperate fighting of or the battle batlle took took place to today ay before the last of oC time tile enemy's enemy's position was wan abandoned abandond Villa in is I believed d to have hivO tho city practically surrounded accounting aco for the largo number of or prisoners prisoner he If is said to I have ha captured Most of or these these it is 18 said will 1 hr he enrolled in the he rebel ranks ns as has lias been heen tho custom In Mexico |