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Show CASTRO IS VICTORIOUS. Ve-neriielan ItebeM Defeated After Ileaper- Hto ilitttle.'lll Willed Three ThuueauU Men Were Killed. A messenger bus arrived at La Victoria, Venezuela, from the scene of the engagement near that place be. tweon government troops and revolutionists, revolu-tionists, bringing the news that after several days of terrible fighting, 0,000 rebels under General Meudoza had abaudoned the Held, having retired from their last position, six miles from La Victoria, Friday night, retreating in the direction of Villa de Cura, According Ac-cording to I'rcsldeul Castro, the killed' and wounded number 3,000. During the last days of the fighting, the temperature rose to 110 degrees, and a visitor to the scene of the engagement en-gagement declares he never saw such a terrible spectacle as wus presented by the battlefield. The victory of the government troops, which it said to be due to the personal courage of President Castro, who, twice, with' a Mauser .rifle In hand, charged at the heud of his soldiers, Is considered a serious set-back for the cuuso of the revolutionists. |