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Show BEN. VILLA DELAYS ENTERINGJ5AP1TAL WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT HUERTA CANNOT ISOLATE HIM IN CHIHUAHUA CITY. hould Villa Lose Communication With Juarez, Ht Would be in the Position of Federals Before They Evacuated That City. Juarez, Mexico. Still fori tfylng his telegraph and railroad communication lib Juarez against a possible attack at-tack by federals, General Francisco Villa, with his rebel army, ou Sunday Sun-day remained near Sause, about thirty miles north of Chihuahua. Villa said be would delay bis entry tuto the capital city until he was onfldent he was not going to be cut off from the north. The Wen prevailed that some of Genera Salvador Mercado's federal troops, after evacuating Chihuahua, possibly might have left the main body and swung around to the north and west in an attempt to throw a force between Villa and hla base on the border. Should Villa lost! his communication with Juarez, he woul I be Isolated in Chihuahua and tbjs be In the position of the federals before be-fore the.y evacuated that city. Direct telegraph communication with Villa's headquarters, however, showed that Bo federals bad been aeen anywhere and that Villa's slow progress toward the state capital was merely precautionary. |