Show ELS EBEl WO Wl BA BATTLE TIlE l At 4 Commander of Garran- Garran 1 I 1 II za Forces Defeated efe tf i I in ini Contest Q te t Fought Near I f g 2 Gates of 1 Mexico City Ity ty I 9 tes I I I f. f t 0 l WASHINGTON ON May M y 3 i 3 3 American nie 6 n rS c t Y r rr r Cr Cruz z and nd Tampico ampi tb to toPi Pi cans there r f 1 The navy department acted on the i request of the state department where it was explained today that the warships warships war war- ships would take aboard Americ Americans in I those two ports in event th that t should j become necessary I It w was ws s sai said said that the vessels wo would woId ld I Inot not intervene in Mexican affairs and and I that their dispatch was a precautionary measure Only the cruiser Sacramento is now on n tie te east coast of Mexico She was last reported at Tampico 1 SAN ANTONIO Tex May 3 1 Francisco Villa has offered his aid to the Obregon revolutionists of Mexico according to advices received here to to- to i day day These reports s said id Villa asked Governor Hu Huerta Hurta of Sonora for permission i sion to enter the state and confer re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding the campaign against Car Car- I ranza WASHINGTON May 3 General Generall General 1 Manuel Gonzales a federal comman domman- domman i der has hu been decisively defea defeated ed at at Texico near Mexico City by a force of rebels rebel coming up from the state of I Morelos to to take part in the siege of the capital according to official ad ad I vices received today at headquarters headquarters' of the Sonora revolution i EL I Lj PASO P s May l fa r 3 Americans American i have been barred from j 1 Juarez Late Sunday all those in the Mexican city were ordered Continued o on page 10 I REBELS WIN BA BATTLE BATTLE TILE Continued from page 1 1 to Unit United d States territory and the saloons there were closed It is expected by Juarez business businessmen rne men merl that the city will be turned over to the agents of ot the revolutionary government gov- gov ov within twenty-four twenty hours Doubt is expressed that there will Till be any fighting If It there i is according to to a dispatch published in a revolutionary I paper here United States cavalry cay cay- alry aIry will cross the river and clear the town of combatants forcing them to do their fighting several miles south ol ot of the Rio Grande GOVERNOR CHOSEN The ne new g governor n of Chihuahua chosen by the victorious revolutionists I at Chihuahua City is in El Paso awaitIng awaiting await await- ing to assume charge of ot Juarez as soon as the cit city falls rails into rebel hands His name Is withheld but he Is said to be General i Antonio Villareal A number of ot Yaqui Indian soldiers in Juarez are said to hays have been disarmed and nd placed u under der guard d due e to to an I openly mutinous attitude WILSON GRANTS FAVOR I WASHINGTON May M y 3 3 President I Wilson has lias granted the request of ot Mexican federal army officers that they be allowed to p pass ss over ovet United States territory en enn route to l f Mexico City from the rebellious state of Sonora Sonora So- So nora It was learned today The Tile officers may cross Arizona and New M Mexico xico whose gove governors nors agree to allow their passage but may not ent enter r Texas in their return t to Mexico Cit City The ot officers cers stated they would travel over oyer United States territory without arms or uniforms LABOR AGAINST CARRANZA PRIETA Sonora Ma IIa May 3 By the Associated Press Press Confirmation of widespread reports of an Car anti ranza labor movement t throughout Mexico and the declaration n that the I American Federation of ot Labor is expected to give its Ita support support sup sup- port to the the movement were made by Juan Rico president of or the union of ot otIe Metco Ie co and amI sec sec- of the executive board of the l Ie Mexican labor party part here today According According Ac Ac- cording to Senor Rico the American Federation of Labor Laboi will vou vouch h for the tact that the movement is not a a. bolshevik bol bol- bol uprising but a legitimate attempt at at- at tempt to achieve industrial freedom in Mexico Rico Insisted that a statement statement state state- ment from the American federation could be expected shortly I MOVEMENT ON CAPITAL AGUA PRIETA Mexico May 3 Revolutionary armies of of the northern Mexican l states are aie rushing prepa a- a for tor a combined movement on Mexico Cit City it was rev revealed aled today by General P P. Ellas Elias Calles the com corn mander anander In chief The rebel offensive southward will start as soon as the garrison at Juarez declares for the revolution revolution General Calles said It It is only a matter of ot a few days days' when we l will be on our way to Mexico City to reestablish the princIples principles prin principles prin- prin trampled into the dust by President Carranza he said Reports poured into Agua Prieta today of more additions to the rebel forces throughout the rep republic and of new victories of the the liberal con con- armies |