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Show FEDERALS WILL FIGHT VILLA TO .THE DEATH Such Are the Declarations of Generals Gener-als Castro and 8alzar In Interview Inter-view Given At Ojinaga OJInaga, Mex., Jap. 5. All doubt as to the intention of the northern division of the Mexican federal army to defeat tho rebels or to stay here until every soldier has dled for President Pres-ident Huerta, through the exhaustion of ammunition, was dispelled by General Gen-eral Francisco CbBtro and General Ynez Sailaiar In interviews given by j them at headquarters during the reb- J ot attack today. Retreat ot federal soldiers across the' border to the United States territory ter-ritory wou'd bo Induced only by some unexpected event, and even If all soldiers deserted, tho generals would remain to dlo at their posts according to General Castro. General Salazar Is commander of the federal volunteers, while General Castro, who is suffering from a wounded woun-ded hand, Is commander of the general gen-eral forces. The belief that so largo and so Important Im-portant a division of the Mexican nr-my nr-my would ask for asylum ip a foreign for-eign country wa3 given bqsls In tho flight or tho army with General Mer-cado Mer-cado from Chihuahua about five weeks ago, said General Castro. Will Not Cross Border It was thought that we camo to the border so that If we wero pus-Buod pus-Buod by Villa's rebels, we could step across the bordei, he said. Such a plan was preposterous. Our forces evacuated Chihuahua because wo had been Isolated there. We had no way to obtain money to pay the soldiers who remained loyal to General Hu-ertfl Hu-ertfl and we had no means of communicating com-municating with the war department a Mexico City. Our duty was to open a lino of communication with the head of the government and to escort Chihuahua Chi-huahua city citizens who feared they would be murdered by Villa. Wo selected se-lected Ojinaga because it Is' ono of tho best natural fortifications In tho world. It also oRered us n source or communicating with Mexico City as well as a port through' which'wo may Import provisions, Our position hero' is impregnable. Wo hnvo ample stores of ammunition nnd more than 50 field , pieces. Our losses havo been greatly! under thoso or tho rebels. Ortega's Idea Ortega, who enmo to attack us on orders from Villa thought his pros-enco pros-enco nlono would causo us to flee Immediately Im-mediately to thp United States. Ho was surprised when wo resisted him. j Our 4000 loynl soldiers becauso or our j superior rorttficationB aro able to re-1 slst 10,000 rebels and thoro aro not that many rebels In the north. Each of us aro ready to dio should thnt bo i necessary nnd U wo ovncu'.&to this I place It will not be to a Torelgu country. coun-try. General Castro's Interview wns given giv-en In a quaint plaster houso on tho plaza which has been under ttfmost continuous fire far a week. Ab he talked his hand bound up In bandages, bandag-es, the cannonading and tho rattlo or InWntry of General Ortega's rebel army to tho west of the vlllajge was audible. A short time later bursting shrapnel shrap-nel was scattering a shower ot bullets above the vllage. Dead soldiers lying unburlcd in the outer trenches and hundreds of living liv-ing soldiers on duty for a week without with-out sleep were some of tho scenes witnessed today In an Inspection of this frontier village G7 mites from a railroad, which Imp become tho battleground bat-tleground of a posslblo final conflict for tho possession or tho north. So Tar neither sldo has mado material ma-terial headway except In tho drain on tho rederal ammunition by tho rob-elfa, rob-elfa, A fow of tho ndobo houses used ns federal forts havo been demolished but tho (Uronge to fortifications mado of dirt havo been cnsual. Army Patrol Alert I i Desplto assurances today from General Gen-eral Castro nnd General Snlnzar that tho federals hnd no design to fleo to tho United Stntes In ca,so of utter defeat, tho Unltod States nrmy patrol did mot slnckon Its precautions taken with a vlow or that omorgoncy. Already Al-ready about fiOO federal deserters havo ! crossed nnd either hnvo been disarm- ! ed and sent back or havo escaped Into In-to Toxns. Becnuso or tho tendency or both tho contending armies ucross the river rrom Presidio to eend tholr wounded to tho American sldo to bo. enred for. tho Bed Cross today wired ErnoBt P. Iilcknell, tho nntlonnl director di-rector to provldo moro hospital sup- I piles. Tho messago said thnt hun-dreds hun-dreds of wounded might hnvo to bot cared for ultimately. I |