Millard County Chronicle | 1913-06-26 | Page 5 | Aviator Drops Bombs on Decks of Mexican Ships

AVIATOR DROPS BOMBS Oil DECKS OF MEXICAN SKIPS i French Airman Drives Federal Gun boata From Harbor Forcing Thorn to Taka Rafuga In Open Sea. Douglas, Arizona Dldter Masson, the French aviator who smuggled an aeroplane aero-plane from Lot Angeles Into the Mexican Mex-ican rebels' llnea, on Saturday drove the federal guuboats Guerrero and rniko from C nay man harbor. Bomb dropped by Masson on the iecks of the two Mexican warships forced them to take refuge in the Jpen sea. Complete victory for the constitutionalist constitu-tionalist rebels, after a alx days" battle bat-tle at OrlU, Sonora. la claimed by the Junta here. According to dispatches received fiom Governor l'aMitieria over the wire from Ortiz, all of which are In the hand of llio nbels. General Gen-eral Obrcgon aurroundej and completely com-pletely routed the federal army under Genera! I'edro OJeda. The losses on both aides are reported to be nearly 2.010. MaHHon and hi aeroplane flayed a big pert la the battle, dropping drop-ping many bomb into the federal entrenchment at Ortiz. One of these bemba, dropped Friday, Ik claimed to have killed fifty-two federal soldiers.