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Show REGULARS DEFEAT VILLA'SJANDITS OUTLAWS DRIVEN INTO HILLS, WHERE THEY SCATTERED IN THE CANYONS. General Trevino Reports Victory Over Villa's Followers and Says Country East of San Antonio Is Cleared of Outlaws. . Chihuahua City. Government troops and Villa forces both lost heavily in a sharp skirmish in the hills a few miles north of Mapimi, Durango, according to reports to Gen. Jacinto Trevino on August 6. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Compean and a dozen privates were killed and the bandit casualties were estimates at eighteen. The outlaws were driven far into the hills, where they scattered in the canyons. General Trevino announced that he has completed the co-ordination of his troops for the drive upon the main bandit band with Villa and that troops are advancing north from Durango Dur-ango City to co-operate with those Under Gen. Matias Ramos, going south from Rosario, Parral, Jimenez anfi Escalen. He said also that his dispatches dis-patches indicated that the country east of San Antonio has been cleared of outlaws, who have been forced into the territory in the path of the advancing ad-vancing de facto troops. |