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Show BAREFOOTED PEONS GUARD M CAPITAL ZAPATA TROOPS, MEAGERLV CLAD, ARE ON PATROL DUTY AT MEXICO CITY. Provisional President Gutierrez and General Villa Ready to Take Over Reins of Government and Maintain Main-tain Order. Washington. Provisional President Gutierrez and General Villa are in Mexico City and several of their military mili-tary chiefs have gone to Cuernavaca to discuss with General Zapata and his officers the distribution of forces in the capital and vicinity. This was reported Thursday in official of-ficial dispatches to the state department depart-ment which stated that conditions in Mexico City were quiet. "Zapata soldiers, very meagerly clad, some being barefooted, patrol the city," said an announcement from the state department, summarizing official of-ficial messages. "The army of the north is encamped in the suburbs; no further molestation of foreigners has occurred and fair order is being maintained. Thus far there has heen no friction. "Orders have been issued by General Gen-eral Villa with reference to the occupation occu-pation of private property upon the entry of his troops. It is stated that private property is not to be occupied without the consent of the owners previously pre-viously being given." |