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Show BANDITS DEFEATED PRISONERS SHOT VILLA MAKES GOOD THREAT TO INVADE CHIHUAHUA ON EVE OF INDEPENDENCE DAY. Leads Six Hundred Bandits Into City, But Meets Defeat at the Hands of Regulars, Captured Bandits Being Executed. Juarez. A dispatch received here from Chihauhua reports an attack on Chihuahua City by Francisco Villa at the head of six hundred men. It is said that the attacking bandits penetrated the city, but was driven out with heavy losses by the constitutionalist consti-tutionalist army. The captured Villa followers were immediately put to death. General Trevino was wounded wound-ed in an arm. The attack of the Villa forces was made on September 16. It is said Villa Vil-la had told a rancher that he intended intend-ed to celebrate the eve of independence independ-ence day in Chihuahua, and had carried car-ried out his threat by attacking the city at the head of 600 of his chosen band. General Trevino said last week that scouts who had interviewed ranchers on Villa's line of march learned of a boast by Villa that he would celebrate the eve of independence day in Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. The hour that the attack was made is not known here, as the dispatch to the Mexican officials in Juarez lacked details. It told ot the repulse of Villa's 600 men, the capture of those who penetrated pene-trated the city and their death, and the wounding of General Trevino. |