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Show DIAZ AND VILLA THREATEN CAPITAL REPORT THAT REVOLUTION IS TO BE STARTED AGAINST THE RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENT. Diaz Said to Have Joined the Zapata Forces With Forty Thousand Men While Villa is in Command of Eighteen Thousand. El Paso, Texas. A message, said here to have been received in Juarez on Friday, is quoted as stating that Felix Diaz has joined the Zapata forces and is now at the head of 40,000 men, with whom he is menacing Mexico City. Receipt of the message was reported re-ported from two different sources. General Villa has under his command com-mand 18,000 men, divided into eight or nine divisions, according to information infor-mation reaching the headquarters of the southern department, United States army, at San Antonio, in an official report Friday. The report said General Mendez with 600 men had occupied Esqueda, Sonora. An unknown number of Villa troops is in possession of Fronteras. General Urbalejo, . the Yaqui Indian chief, who occupied Naco, with 800 Yaquis, is believed to be sending a force to capture Anavacachi Pass, which the Carranza garrison from Naco is said to be endeavoring to reach. No information of General Villa's personal activities was given in the report. |
