| Show AT T THE TilE GATES I OF CARACAS An Army Revolutionists of Almost V There V V V I I TO 10 REPEL HElEL THEM tIring linns li Is Cool CoolOn On Un II hey liny slid mill Operation New Ne York Fob 3 An army of ot rev revolutionists rc Is now almost nt at the gates of ot Caracas says saya the Hernias Corneas correspondent and anti everywhere In n tho the city preparations are being made mado to an attack are arc being dug and citizens ore are being drafted Into tho ho military ranks Animals are aro being seized for or the th government service President Castro Costro Is us cool coot as ns the this pro proverbial cucumber and nud Is IB disputing u p tireless s energy He lie Is on horseback tiny day In mill and night directing the defensive le operations tho the dark outlook many von per oils believe that the thc government will wili triumph over tho ho divided revolutionary Alcantara captured 30 SO officers and soldiers rounds of or ammunition and all 1111 the tho rebels reserve ammunition and nud 60 0 animals The Tho balance of ot Du charmes army tied fled In n the direction of ot Orituco I leadership len and the of the Insurrection The Tho Matos tos revolution has hils nt at last reached a point where some gome decisive ac nc action action tion lion must take toke place within a very orY few days nYs of victory I ct a anti and defeat are arc arenow arenow now being circulated In Caracas as ns A i result of ot the fighting Just south of the tho capital These bulletins are not trust trustworthy trustworthy worthy The fhe significant feature Is that defensive measures are being pushed The ho have hae notified the La 11 Guayra authorities that It If they the see sea Venezuelan soldiers In town they tho will shell shelt tho the fort tort This notification Is Inexplicable to the La IVO Gunna authorities as 08 Venezuelan soldiers occasionally pass In tho the streets on their way to the revolutionists Ia La Guayra residents resident look hook upon the lie noti notification notification as a new tart of ot the Germans to assist the Matos revolution asking Where here Is the peaceful block ado adt DEFEATED DEF Caracas Feb 3 The government troops under und r len Alcantara a 1 graduate graduate graduate ate from West ost Point have defeated a force forre of or rebels numbering under the revolutionary Gen Oen Ducharme on ou the Camatagua river south Routh of ot Caracas The rebels were routed their ion tion and prisoners being captured On the receipt of ot the news of ot the vic vie tory pries prices on the stock exchange here jumped four tour points Since the rout of ot Gen Oen Matos and his Ills army arm of oC men by hv President Pre Castro near La 11 Victoria Oct Get IS the he remnant remnants of tho the rebel r bel forces have been dispersed In nil all directions These scattered boll bod ies les of ot rebels believing that lint arms arena and ammunition had been lIeen landed lately reunited and und to the tho number of ot about 2000 under Gene Gens o nn lu Du Ducharme charme assembled at Rt nt at the entrance to the Gulf Gult of ot Maracaibo and Oil at Orituco a 11 village CO GO miles south routh of Caracas Usa On with men ad nil advanced vanceil up the tho Camatagua river Pros Pre President ident Vatro sent n a I force feme of ot 1000 troupe against him under tinder Oln Jen Alcantara who wha the rebels by b surprise nail routed them th m after seven lIeven hours fighting |
