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Show REBELS WINNING EIGHT AT JUAREZ BATTLE RAGES lit STREETS Madero Gives Orders for General AttacK; Takes Field Himself. FORCES OF DIAZ ARE HARD PRESSED General Navarro Probably Will Be Forced to Sar-"" Sar-"" render. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii i n 1 1 ii 1 1 1 4 4 4 FX PASO, Tex., May 9. 4 4 Couriers returning from Juares 4 4 to the Madero headquarters re 4 4 port that tha insurrectoa have 4 4 taken tha big- cuartel, while tha 4 4 federals are holding tha church 4 4 and small euartei. Soma of the 4 4 federals are said to be retreat- 4 4 ing in tha direction of the race 4 4 track on tha outskirts of tha 4 4 town. The federals in tba 4 4 church are firing apiritedly. 4 4 The church where the federals 4 4 bare taken refuge ia being bom- 4 4 barded constantly and ia plainly 4 4 showing tha effect of the rebel 4 4 musketry. 4 4 Relatively IrVtla change in tba 4 4 poaition of tha two armies waa 4 4 apparent at 1:45 o'clock. Sharp 4 firing, howerer, waa continued. . 4 4 ? - - - 4- i iiln i I i i i ii i ii i II i i I i ha bad given bis eonaent to a general attack on Juares, but explained that various eireumstanoaa had precipitated it. Ha declared that reports which had reached him were that the federals bad opened fir and that tha men who bad been reported aa revolting against hia lead had pursued them of their own account and could not relinquish their position. He listened to the counsel of hia ehiefa, who advised a general attack, at-tack, aad though ha made an effort ta arrange an armistice laat night it failed because of the progress which th attack at-tack already had made. All the leaders ear been acting under un-der General Madero 'a orders. ' They have surrounded Juares with their ansa aad prospects are that the battle will continue throughout tha day without any decisive turn. General Madero was at hi headquarters receiving tha reports from th front and with him were the varioas political ehiefa, confident confi-dent of an insurgent victory. Efforts of go Between to Stop the fightiag have failed because of tha difficulty diffi-culty of handling the inaarreetos who had already entered Juares. , , Too Lab lor Armlstle. . - General Navarro would' have cos-seated cos-seated to. an .armistice if tba inear- EL PASO, Tx May S. A general ngagement betwaan thv revolutionary fores of General Madar and tb fad-arsis fad-arsis under command of General Navarro Na-varro at Juares la raging today nnder a burning stuu Th entire rebel army broke camp during tb night and up to noon today lnxuxrecto were rapidly swarming into town. Th prospects of a rebel success suc-cess ar dependent on tb ability of tb federal to as their twelve-inch machine ma-chine guns within the' town. Tha insurrectoa, in-surrectoa, it was reported, bad silenced some of them, bat this report haa verifi-cation verifi-cation only In th fact that tb fed erala war sot shelling th insnrroctos , as extensively In th last few hoars as they did earlier in tha morning. Fightiag in th streets is continuous. A rebel in Juares succeeded in tele-- tele-- phoning Madero ' headquarters tkat tke revolutionists were in poaaeaaioa of many streets. Federals aa well aa rebela have takes refuge ia tke residences of Juares and srs firing from window and doorways st persons who ar visible in th streets. Bebela Winning. Aa Assoc is ted Vreas correspondent returned from the interior of Juares at 11:10 o'clock and reported that tba rebels sr slowly gaining poaaeaaioa of tha towa. Th federal ar keeping p a continuous fir from th church in th center of th town, but from no other point. Th insurrectoa srs eon-reeling eon-reeling their whereabouts by withholding withhold-ing their fir and ar skulking behind bouse ia a gradual advance toward the federal stronghold. Tha federals ar gathering not only in the church, but nlongside a huge gas . tank. .Telegraph and telephone wires bav been covered and are lying neroea the streets Telegraph poles show the effects of the shelling. Mexicsss are in the front rank of tbe insurrectoa, followed closely by the American legion. le-gion. To Shall Church. Colonel Garibaldi had just gives order or-der to th inaurrectoa in kis commend to bring the field Artillery into tke atreeta preparatory to shelling the church. Colonel Garibaldi denied to Ik. .n . il i i I . k -. V - L. t rectos had evacuated the towa aad ha told, thia to General Madar over tb telephone early today, but th - rebel chief by that time bad gives order for a general attack principally to reinforce rein-force th 200 brave men who had forced their way into Juares despite th federal fed-eral trenches, barricades and outposts Bullets ksvs been pouring into 1 Paso since the attack began nt 4:40 a. m., but th American troop bav beea keeping aighteeere tkre blocks from the river front. Privates Emilio Garcia, and Casaidy of th American legion with tka insurrectoa in-surrectoa earn to 1 Paso thia morning to get food. They stated that there had already beea fifteen Americana killed and wounded and tba inanr-reeto inanr-reeto lose would probably reach ISO killed aad wounded and thnt th federal fed-eral los waa double that amount. "In one trench I counted forty-seven dead federals ssd in snother thirty-eight thirty-eight They were stripped of most of their clothing." ssid caaaidy. Casaidy stated that when th attack started yesterday tkera were perhaps 150 insurrectoa snd thnt no rmnfore-ment rmnfore-ment cam until last evening. He added, also, tkat Villa real had arrived from Ojiaaga with reinforcements aad two piece of artillery. McGinty Cannon Arrives. One, he said, was th famoui " McGinty Mc-Ginty " csnnon stoles from El Paso. Colonel Garibaldi ia ia command of ao called "American legioa" of ineurre-tu ineurre-tu and they are fighting their way to the bull ring. The Jnaurreetoa have poured a' stream of ahrapnal aad aolid shot into tha city. Ona of tha guns is manned by Americas and French artillerymen. ar-tillerymen. An American Incurrocto named Anderson An-derson attempted to eroaa tk Sssta Fa bridge to El Paso, but waa drive back by the Amerieaa troops. At 7: JO this morning Colonel' Steever, in charge of the Amerieaa troop, is sued orders aot to permit any proviaiona to be takea across to ths insurrectoa. A wagonload of food waa at the bridge for tbe insurrectoa and it wna aot permitted per-mitted to cross. The insurreeto officers stated they held tbe port of entry and thnt they bed a right to bring food suppliee t their men. Who! Kebel Foto Engaged. - Evtdsncs accumulated throuxhout the momlnx that th attack on Juares waa belna made by the entire Ineurrecto army with th sanction of Francisco I. Madero, prevtalonal president. aledero did not countenance th ettack yes tarda v. it was atarted by federal and Ineurrecto wounded. He aaid that of the Americans Ameri-cans in his command only one, a mss ' nsmed Kelly, bed beea killed, but tkat Captain Lindafelt, kis chief officer, waa nahurt. A. Anderson and E. Bough-man Bough-man of tha Amerieaa legioa in the - Garibaldi command have been wounded. The correspondent saw only six wounded in the ineurrecto lines. At ons time s hailstorm of bullets - paaaed sear tha immigratioa ststios, but no ana was injured. Skulking behind dozens of low adobe bonaea srs score of inaurrectoa, stead-ing stead-ing into the main aeetioa of the city. General Navarro ha etatieaed hia machine ma-chine guna at tka rosiag of priaei-pal priaei-pal street aad hope ia thi way to keep tha rebela at bay while his cavalry cav-alry men aad infaatrymea purau tk attack from th rear. Namerose skirmishes at abort range ar in progress along the outskirts of the towa. At 11 o'clock 5U0 rebels' were aeen dashing np Commere street, th main taoronghfar of th towa. The federals have retired somewhat to the billy portion of Juarez, due south o . , th riverfront. , General Madero admitted today that n that drunken Juares volunteer fired on the msurrscto sentries first. General Navarro declarea the Insurrectoa Insur-rectoa opened fire while he and Madero were neaotlstins an armlstle. After flahtinsT opened rebel recruits continued to join th flahtr. deeptte atadero'e pro-teets. pro-teets. aladero mads efforts to stop the AsThtlna and the Insurrectoa. hia own men. fired oa a messenger he aaat with n whit ass. , At 4 e clock yesterdsv he ordered the attack. At 4 20 he recalled his order. At t o'clock he hsrangued his troops to quit. At I o'clock Isst nlaht be declared h waa attamptinn to atop the flghtlna. At midnight he announced that he had green permission for the attack. At S o'clock thie morning? he demanded the surrender of Juares At 1:M o'clock this morning th general assault becaa, with hia aauc-tloa. aauc-tloa. -Madero Foreed lab It, There waa no armlatlc laat evenln. atsdaro sxplalna th attack oa Juares merely by declaring that "It la the only thins to do." Hie leaders throuxhout yeeterdsr begged him to sltow them to go to the reecue f lbelr comrades, fighting fight-ing la Juarez. In hie proclamation of Sunday Madero admitted It was with difficulty thst h wa able to restrain hia leadera from et-tackimt et-tackimt J us res. It ta generally conceded '.Continued oa page 10. REBELS WINNING (Continued from page 1.) here that ha did not have the, power to stop the fight end was forced to give It hla approval. He haa not technically violated vio-lated any armistice, for none had been concluded. Ha waa talking on the tele phone with General Navarro In Juarea attempting at-tempting to arrange an armistice wlten the fighting opened yesterday, but no armistice waa arranged because tha battle had already begun. The last rebel demand to the federate to surrender the town of Juarea waa transmitted to Judge Csrhajal. the federal fed-eral peace envoy, thla afternoon. Demand on CarbaJaL It read: "The underalgned members of the provlelonal government of Mexico address ourselves to you In the character char-acter of the special envoy of the government gov-ernment of General Dlaa and beg you to conalder the critical aituatlon in which Juares Is at present, almoat completely occupied by the revolutionist army, and that tha whole force there wilt be powerless pow-erless under the circumstances to hold It, elnce extensive reinforcements will arrive today. Consequently, aleo It wli! be useless to shed more blood and lone more lives In this combat. "Ueneral Navarro expressed his resolution reso-lution absolutely to follow your orders In respect to surrender of the town. For these considerations, we coma to beg of you that. Inspired by tha dictates of the highest patriotism and the noblest sentiments of humanity, at a time when the aituatlon dependa on you, that vou will reeolve to order In a eatlafaetory manner General Navarro to aurrender no comment from him. The cabinet mem bera also refused to dlscuns the news, declaring de-claring that the situation at Juarea v.na not clearly uwilned. , FEDEKAL DETACHMENT IS REPORTED ANNIHILATED TIA JTJANA, Cal., May 9 A dotach. ment of twonty-eight federal soldiers, wJio left Tijuana at midnight last night on a scouting expedition, has beea annihilated an-nihilated by the rebels, according to a report brought, tn the international boundary line early this morning by Enrico Gonzales, a federal officer. Another An-other detachment of fonrteca mcu, which left the Mexican town at tho same time has -not been heard from and it ia believed they have met the same fate. At 2 o'clock this morning the revolutionist revolu-tionist forces had completely surrounded Tijuana and the federal defenders have been driven into the bull riiig. It ia believed that the town will be captured before dawn. No authentic reports of too dead oa either side are obtaiuablo. Hundreds of Americana ia automobiles automo-biles line the border watching the night fighting. CABINET MEETING DEVOTED TO MEXICAN SITUATION WASHINGTON. Msy . The cabinet devoted most of Its time to the Mexican situation today. News of the situation at Juares was admitted to be alarming, Cludad Juares la aa brief a time aa possible. pos-sible. Ia Sola Arbiter. - "fou win understand that In these things you have at the present moment become the sole arbiter who la empowered to act with respect to avoiding bloodshed blood-shed and the loss of lives In the battle of Juarea, and as tba government of General Gen-eral Dlaa. being unable to recognise the true gravity of the situation, which will follow In consequence, you will be the only one responsible for that which happens hap-pens later In Juarea. "We preeent to you our compllmenta and beg of you the moat earnest consideration. con-sideration. (Signed) "GONZALES GARZA. "Secretary General. "OU8TAVO A. MADERO. "Financial Agent. "J. M. PINTO 8UARHZ. Member of the Peace Commission. "JUAN SANCHEZ ANCONA. "Member of the , Executive Consulting I'oaimtseton of the Provisional Government." Gov-ernment." r General Madera waa In the field when the communication was draw up. The demand waa transmitted to Judge Carbajal Car-bajal In person by all those who signed uul im presiaent ana ine canine t sun hoped for developments which will bring about peace. That the American commanders on the , horder had become reetiesa and apprehensive appre-hensive and were desirous of taking more i radical steps to prevent the killing of Americana on their own aoll, waa Indicated Indicat-ed today by their appltcattone for modi- B'iesuar-4stfeajfsveaaV-- aalM4r"frwt - araJ-v9afsMavrtas 'IwsV"1 brourht rnewed instruction to pr-rv trlct neutrality, to keep the United Statea aoldlera out of Mexico and to ndevor to mova United Statea civ I liana to places of aafety. Secretary of War Dickinson read a number of advice from Colonel Stower to' the cabinet. A paraphrase of the formal reply of General Madero to Colonel Stee-ver'i Stee-ver'i protest airatnat firing: by the Madero forces Into United Statea territory attracted at-tracted particular Interest. General Madero Ma-dero hastened to make known that be greatly regretted luh firing, and that ha had taken atl measures to avoid a repetition. repeti-tion. , President Taft read a telearam from Homer C. Stuns of Kewajrk, K. J., who transmitted the following report from a Dr. Butler, a missionary now In Mexico: "Situation throughout Mexico Improving; Improv-ing; all our missionaries well. Your course in this matter gratifying to all right thinking persons." One interesting hit of information laid before the cabinet today was a statement state-ment of the strength of the federal and rebel forces In Mexico. The statement shows that there are 21.451 men In the federal army and 23.425 men In the In-surrecto In-surrecto army. The statement was compiled com-piled from official and unofficial sources. According to official dispatches made public by the white. house this afternoon, six Americans were killed in the fighting fight-ing at EI Paso Instead of five, two of those killed, aconrdlng to Colonel Steever. being on forbidden ground. Judge Carbajal replied at 1: o'clock to the committee, who called upon him that he would communicate with General Navarro at once by, telephone. ITavarro Ee fuses to Surrender. The decision to sttack was msde sfter the envoys sent shortly after midnight to General Navarro returned aaylng that he refused to aurrender. For an armle-tlce armle-tlce arrangement he referred them to Judge Carbajal. the federal peace envoy, but be, too, refused to enter Into an . wiut me win os ine rvoeig in Jusres. The cannonading continued slowly. The rebels used their machine gun sparingly, spar-ingly, while the federala poured tbelr ahells Into - the Insurrecto outposts. The firing by the Insurrectos wss begun be-gun by a small detachment of men eta-tloned eta-tloned in an adobe house near the Stanton Stan-ton atreet bridge. With their machine Jun leveled to aweep the main afreets of uares. they waited patiently for the flret break of dawn and opened lire. A United Statea soldier, while off duty, awam acmes the Rio Grande only an hour before the attack began and brought bark with Dim two of tba wounded insurrectos. in-surrectos. Brings Wounded Over Ida. Ordere had been given not to slhrw the wounded to tske refuge In El Paso, but under cover of darkness the soldier towed the two wounded men to shore snd brought them to a hospital. One of the Inaurreetoe had a bullet wound in hla 55 h other a bullet hole In hla leg. The soldier declared that the de-tachment de-tachment of men with the machine aua esr the Stanton atreet - bridge wss '".i"" "f a continuous lire nil J"? P'nty of ammunition. General Navarro is confident of holding 7w. and military experts in town think he can do It. He haa hla two field plecea and cannon In an advantageous position In the town. He haa twelve guns In all. three of which are In action h"ta.fclrtsj of the town, shelling the hills from which the main column of the Insurrecto army must pass to enter the olty unleae they decide , to follow the rtver bank, the route by which the van-luard van-luard of the rebels secured an entrance, which waa bound to draw1 a heavy nre Into American territory. . REPORT OP MEXICAN PEAOE REACHES. LONDON LONDON. May . lord Cowdray received re-ceived a measagel thla morning from J. D. Body, director of hla farm, now In Mexico Mex-ico City, saying: "Peace elgned." Lord Cowdray la president of S. Pear-aon Pear-aon A Son. limited, the Hritleh firm of contractors for public worka which haa extenalve Intereate In Mexico. Oen. Ambroelo Flgueroa, representing the rebels In the statea of Guerrero and Moreloa. la In Mexico City, where he la with Colonel Beltram of the federal army looking to a peace agreement between hla division of the rebels snd the government. The cablegram from Lord Cowdray'a director In Mexico City may refer to a successful concluelon of these negotls-tlons, negotls-tlons, though their resumption haa not been officially announced. TO PRESERVE NEUTRALITY. WASHINGTON.- May .Tee your beat efforts to enforce rtie neutrality lawa and urge on the people of El Paeo the ne. ceaelty of keeping aa much aa poaalble out of the aone of fire." These Instructions have been sent by General Wood, chief of ataff of the army, to Colonel Steever. commanding the American troops at El Paso. All available troops have been ordered Into El Paso by Colonel Steever. The American aoldlera are doing all In their power to preserve the neutral attitude of the United Statea and to keep United Slates rttlsene out of the range of fire. A statement Issued today by the Mexican Mexi-can embassy declares that tranoulllltv m awning zrom xoora. t.Ztm'niPr' residents of El Paso for 52J JT; i?" W1,rhj from roof tope and points of vantage. .vISfJin'",f ?!." ,roP ordered STYr. 00.t,n American "de of the line to stay three blocks sway from the Colonel Vlllareaith. IrVtr-recto IrVtr-recto chief. Is advancing on Juarea this freeh from the siege of Ollnagar while with 1000 federals, hut a strong command U.l.l"'" "PP"' him. wd Madero has no fear from that source. Mrs. Joaefa Garcia and her young eon struck by flying bullets In El Paso mSLm ? torm,r receiving a. wound la ber neck. rontlnuee In the City of Mexico and that great surprise is expressed there at ru-mors ru-mors to the contrary. The statement says in part: "All the porta, all the clllee. all Important Import-ant towns and centers, are under the control con-trol of the government. The rebels have only secured aome points of very secondary second-ary Importance. In view of thla fact. It la well to caution the public againat any alarm that might be caused by these misstatements which can only be attrlb- -, uted to malice or Ignorance on the part of those that furnish such wild reports." HERMOSIXLO THREATENED. DOUGLAS. Aria., May . Hermoelllo. capital of Sonora. Is threatened bv eev-aral eev-aral hundred Taqul Indiana, according to a report. received today bv courier. The Indians sre ssld to have held up a Southern South-ern Pacific train and taken 600 rlflea and a big aupnlv of ammunition. 'The Indiana left haclendae along the Tamil river several days ago to confer with Joee Mayterlno. provisional governor gover-nor of Sonora. who employe most of them on the plantatlona. They did not And Mayterlno In Hermoalllo. but did learn that tha city waa defended by only 800 federal troop, commanded by Colonel Pedro OJeda. who led the government force during tha first fight at Agua Prieta and won federal victories at Urea and Sen Rafael. The Taauls determined to besiege the town. A Southern Paclflc train waa held up and from -It they took 800 Mauser -rifleo and 20. OM rounds of ammunition and surrounded th city. An telegraph linen were cut. Newa of thia actllvty waa reported th a 'letter to the rebel Junta here, but was not believed until a courier reached Douglas today with confirmatory details. MEnOAJf CAPITAL AS VBUAZ, 1 A DAT OR TWO BEHIND MEXICO CITT. Msy t.-Tbe govern-ment govern-ment Is kept advieed of the progreee of affairs on the border by the Meslran con-J0.?"0- wblie. lacking de-taila de-taila of the events of yeeterday and -- night at Juarea. fat In the dark. President Dlaa and his cabinet thla morning awaited the result of a conference confer-ence between a representative of General Navarro, commanding the federal troop at Juarea. and a representative of Madero. They had been advieed that but night a messenger from the rebel camp aaked for an appointment with General Navarro for aa early hour today. Th government le unsbls to grasp the exsct situation between be-tween the opposing eommandera, but at the foreign efflc It waa aald that the administration ad-ministration waa atlll disposed to llaten to reasonable representations from Madero. Ma-dero. Official dispatches state that last night's fight was precipitated by the act of three rebels, who fired on the federal outposts. Ths massage adda that tba eaeualtlee on the American eld raanltari from the rebel tire. , Th Insubordination of Msdero's men hss created dletruet of the efficiency of a near Beet ahould such result from the possible resumotlon of negotiations. At th foreign office It h still regarded aa probable that Madero' B counsel will prevail pre-vail la the ead and that further conferee confer-ee cee will he held. A long dispatch from Judge Carbajal. the federal peace commissioner. It Is ssld. haa been recetved by Finance Minuter Llmaatoor. wh with Foreign Minister Ds la Barra. went into eonfanvneet with President Dlaa earlv thla morning. It la not thought that ths message contained a definite expression from the rebels regarding re-garding th T resident's manifesto. Such aa expression te swatted with great Interest. In-terest. -. The government." aald Umantour. "hoee for th beat, but conaidera the manlfeeto the Anal eteu oa Its part. It la te be hoped that th manlfeeto will be accented and peace restored through out the country." It le believed the dave developments will show up where Madero haa lost the confidence of his ermy through his failure to support the unauthorised attack oa Juarea yesterday. There Is a growing belief that th rebel leader Is toeing hla bold on hla army. Sympathisers with the revolution declare that tney would net be surprised It he were repudiated and another leader named, though thev ronfeea that It would be a hard task to Snd a suitable successor. New eesnpilcattone ever tbe killing of Americans on the border sre expected, though Mr. WRson. th Ameih'an embassador, embas-sador, had received ao tna! ructions on the aubiect from hia government thla morning. morn-ing. Preas dispatches telling of th lighting light-ing at Juares ware . aeat to President Dlaa at th palace last Bight, but brought |