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Show VILLA FLEES WITH FOES ATHIS HEELS PARRAL EXPECTED TO BE SCENE OF NEXT BATTLE BETWEEN MEXICAN LEADERS. Villa Forces Reported to Have Fled Toward Parral With the Followers of General Murguia Hot Upon Their Trail. - El Paso, Texas. Parral is expected to be the scene of the next general engagement between the forces oi Francisco Villa and the Carranza troops of the north under the command com-mand of General Francisco Murguia, Villa has fled to that place, with General Gen-eral Murguia in pursuit, according to the latest report received here by Carranza Car-ranza Consul Soriano Bravo. General Murguia, on board a locomotive loco-motive captured at Jiminez, reported making a reconnoitering expedition for nine miles up the branch railroad to Parral. Villa partisans here claimed that the official report of the Jimenez battle, bat-tle, given out Saturday, was exaggerated, exagger-ated, but the fact of the victory was substantiated Saturday by private telegrams tel-egrams received by American mining men from Jimenez.- |