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Show BE gartal AGAIN MENACED GENERAL VILLA'S SOLDIERS ARE THREATENING MEXICO CITY AND BATTLE IS EXPECTED. General Gonzales Heads Troops Which Will Engage Advancing Column, In Endeavor to Keep Followers Fol-lowers of Villa Out. : Washington. Mexico City is again threatened with attack and the Car-ranza Car-ranza forces under General Gonzales, who drove the Zapata army from the capital ten days ago, have marched hurriedly northward to engage an advancing ad-vancing Villa column believed to be planning a junction with the Zapata troops, now menacing communication v. itli Vera Cruz. State department dispatches on Monday announced that General Gonzales Gon-zales with most of his army had evacuated eva-cuated Mexico City Sunday, turning the government over to civil authorities. authori-ties. This was preceded by advices that General Villa's forces after the battle of Aguas Calientes and captured tjueretaro, had taken possession of Pachuca, within forty miles of Mexico City and was marching on the capital. Simultaneously with the later report, re-port, came the news that General Car-ronza Car-ronza had taken possession of the reconstructed re-constructed railroad east of Apizaca, a junction point south of Pachuca and had ordered that it be held exclusively exclusive-ly for transportation of troops and ammunition, thus preventing further shipment of provisions from Vera Cru2 to the needy thousands at Mexico City. Officials here made no effort to conceal con-ceal their belief that the situation surrounding the Mexican capital was a grave one. With another battle for posbession of the city imminent and with much needed food shipments from the east coast cut off, it was leared that further suffering among the civil population would follow. General Gonzales' sudden evacuation of the city in an effort to head off the Villa forces, together with Car-ranza's Car-ranza's action in closing the railroad to freight and passenger traffic, it is feared here, will make further relief work at the capital practically impossible, impos-sible, i |
