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Show CASTRO WINS ANOTHER BATTLE. Venezuelan Soldiers Defeat Rebels, Taking Many Prisoners. The Venezuelan government troops, under General Alcantara, a graduate from West Point, have defeated a force of rebels numbering 900, under the revolutionary General Bucharme, on the Camatagua river, south of Caracas. Ca-racas. The rebels were routed, their ammunition and 230 prisoners being captured. Since the rout of General Matoa and his army of 10,000 men by Presi. dent Castro near La Victoria, October 18, the remnants of the rebel forces have been dispersed in all directions These scattered bodies of rebels, be-lieving be-lieving that arms and ammunition had been landed, lately reunited, and ta the number of about 2,000, under Generals Gen-erals Rolando and Ducharme, assem-bled assem-bled at Altagracia at the entrance ta the Gulf of Maracaibo, and at Ori-tuco, Ori-tuco, a village sixty miles south of Ca raca's. general Ducharme, with aoU men, advanced up the Camatagua I river. President Castro sent a forco ' of 1,000 troops against him, under Gen-j Gen-j eral Alcantara, who took the rebels by surprise and routed them afte seven hours' fighting. |