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Show CHIEF OF REBELS NONRESIDENT GENERAL CARRANZA ENTERS CAPITAL OF MEXICO AT HEAD OF VICTORIOUS ARMY. New Ruler Loudly Acclaimed by the Multitude as He Rides Through the Streets of Capital Escorted by Guard of Honor. Mexico City. General Venustlano Carrntmi, tho supreme chief or the Mexican revolution nnd now provisional provis-ional president or tho republic, entered enter-ed the capital at noon on Thursday. Ho was given nn enthusiastic reception recep-tion by tho crowds on the streets. It Is estimated that moro than 1G0,-000 1G0,-000 persons crowded tho line of inarch of the new president and his followers, follow-ers, which extended rrom tho vlllago of Atzcapoctzalco to tho national palace, pal-ace, n distance or six miles. There was not tho slightest disorder ns General Gen-eral Carranza and his staff passed through the cheering erawds, which showered them with ilowers and confetti, con-fetti, and rrom which came cries ot "Long llvo Carranza; long llvo the constitutional government." It was near noon when General Carranza, mounted on a superb horse nnd accompanied by his staff and the gcnercla of the northwest, tho central and northeast division or tho constitutionalist consti-tutionalist army, left Atzcapotzalco, escorted by a squadron of cavalry and thu Fourth Sonora battalion of in fantry, which acted as tho guard or honor. On reaching tbo city limits tho column was met by tho mayor and tho city council, who delivered to General Carranza the keys or tho city. Tho provisional government Is not fully organized and the diplomatic corps was not present at tho function, func-tion, although tho Brazilian minister, John It. Sllltman, personal represent, ntlvo of President Wilson .and Senor Moreno, tho personal representative of King Alfonso, were among tho hundreds hun-dreds who, congratulated President Carranza. General Panflllo Natera and General Tomna Domlnguez arrived in the capital cap-ital Thursday evening with their entire en-tire forces of constitutionalists. General Gonzales Garza, former governor of Mlchoacan, was arrested hero charged with tho murder of forty minora In tho town of Velnrdena while ho was Me politico or that place. General Leopoldo Diaz Coballos hai been arrested at Toluca. |