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Show REVOKE BORDER PERMITS. MKXIOAI-I. Mex.. March IS. AH passe to cross tha Internal toaal Una were revoked when alarming rumor spread that a federal fori waa in the Immadlata vicinity of Mcxlcall. Non-combatant a flocked acmes tha. llna to Calexico, while th residents Thar mada for place that would b outslda the probable llna of bullets. It developed later that th order of Captalna babcock and Griffith la In pur-sua pur-sua nee of a plan to "new up" tha border bor-der and prevent olthar recrulta or aup-pilea aup-pilea reaching the Inaurrectoa' from the United Htate. Th llna has been drawn tight and realising that thla would mean starvation In a week or ao th insurrecto army, whose leaders hava been la a favar of uncertainty, decided to mov. For the fourth time tha men voted for an I m medial a aggreasivo campalga. At th same time ft waa learned that tha federals who arrived at Rnsenada on tha gunboat Guerrero started March 10 oo tha road to MaxIcaJI. Th Information waa brought by Manuel Garcia, a reliable guide, who aald ha paased the federal a on th way and that they could b ax-pscted ax-pscted to - rrtve at any Urn. When tha eeault of the write u ataa. nounpad Barthold and Iyva declared the inarch would be started tonight. If they do and the Garcia statement la true the rebel, are S radically bottled up In thla valley and the battle probably will be fought near Ptroehoe pass In tha Coropeh mountains, twenty .Ave asllea from Hex loall. |