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Show VILLA IS WILLING 10 LAY DOWN ARMS ONCE POWERFUL MEXICAN CHIEF FORCED TO GIVE UP FIGHT WITH CARRAN2A. Under Pressure of His Generals and Advice of His Wife, General Villa is on His Way to the American Border to Seek Sanctuary. El Paso, Texas. Under pressure of his generals, the weight of his defeat in Sonora, and the counsel of his wife, General Francisco Villa'is on his way to the border and the United States, his title of commander-in-chief renounced re-nounced and his determination to continue fighting the de facto government govern-ment of Carranza until death broken once and for all. Telegrams in code from the capital Sunday afternoon stated briefly that "peace has been declared here. There will be no more fighting." Previous to renouncing his command, com-mand, General Villa was united to Mrs. Villa in a civil marriage. They had been married by a church ceremony cere-mony several years ago at San Andreas, An-dreas, Chihuahua, but the civil marriage mar-riage was required by Mexican law to make the tie legal. It was believed that the civil marriage mar-riage would remove any moral obstacle to the entrance of Mrs. Villa and General Gen-eral Villa into the United States. uuiiu tne relirtuieul of Vilia was upon pressure from his generals, assembled as-sembled in council of war in the capital, cap-ital, it is not generally admitted that the revolution is ended. Indeed, it ' is asserted that the revolution will receive re-ceive a new impetus from the absence ab-sence of Villa, and the substitution of a new leader who is said to be Governor Aviia of Chihuahua state. The relinquishment of command by Villa has been rumored at the border for several weeks, but the first indica-tins indica-tins of it came Saturday in the removal re-moval of the household goods of General Gen-eral Villa to El Paso, following the sudden appearance of Mrs. Villa at the border from Chihuahua. |