| Show MEXICAN CAPITAL AGAIN MENAGE GENERAL VILLAS VILLA'S SOLDIERS ARE THREATENING MEXICO CITY AND BATTLE IS EXPECTED General Gonzales Heads Troops Which Will Engage Advancing Column In Endeavor to Keep Followers Followers Followers Fol Fol- lowers of Villa Out Mexico 1 Washington Mexico City is again threatened with attack and the Carranza Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza forces under General Gonzales who drove the Zapata army from the capital ten days ago have marched hurriedly northward to engage an ad- ad advancing Villa VilIa column believed to be planning a junction with the Zapata troops now menacing communication with Vera Cruz State department dispatches on Monday announced that General Gonzales Gonzales Gon Gon- zales s with most of his army had evacuated evacuated evacuated eva eva- Mexico City Sunday turning the government over oyer to civil ties This was preceded by advices that General Villas Villa's forces after the battle of Aguas Calientes and captured had taken taleen possession of Pachuca within forty miles of Mexico City and was marching on the capital Simultaneously with the later report re- re report report re re- port came the news that General Carranza Carranza Carranza Car- Car ranza had taken possession of the reconstructed reconstructed reconstructed re re- re- re constructed railroad east of a junction point south of Pachuca and andI had or ordered ered that it be held exclusively exclusive exclusive- I ly for transportation transportation of troops and ammunition thus preventing further shipment of provisions from Vera Cruz to the needy thousands at Mexico City Officials here made no effort to conceal conceal conceal con con- ceal their belief that the situation surrounding the Mexican capital was wasa a a a. grave one With another battle for possession of the city imminent and with much needed food shipments from the east coast cut off oft it was feared that further suffering among the civil population would follow General Gonzales Gonzales' sudden evacuation of the city in an effort to head off the Villa forces together with Carranza's Carranza's Carranza's Car- Car ranza's action in closing the railroad to freight and passenger traffic it is fear feared d here will make further relief work at the capital practically impossible sible |
