Show V ILLA WOULD shae GENERAL anza SHORN OF HIS WHISKERS FIRST CHIEF WOULD LOSE FALSE FRONT SAYS VILLA lay lays claim to an army of seventeen thousand Thou and men and declares that he can easily get ammunition and Provi provisions siona douglas ariz general francisco villa has given out a written statement in which he says bays you ask me to tell you my strength I 1 will not he lie to you for I 1 never lie al together I 1 have armed men who are still loyal to my cause rive five thou sand are with me now three thou sand are in the garrison at juarez in chihuahua and vicinity and an in to hold back the ad vance of the Carran the bal anco of the broods are scattered as small garrisons lu less important towns the american government may believe itself very smart bul but it has not been able to stop me from getting all the ammunition and provisions I 1 want the materials for war have been paid for iut ut of my own money and I 1 have crossed the border under thu tho noses of american soldiers the fact that I 1 am spending my own monay money to buy ammunition and provisions should satisfy the people of the world that I 1 am standing by my men and that I 1 have no immediate in of quitting in my fight for the liberty of my people should I 1 have carranza in my pow er instead of killing him I 1 would shave him this would do him greater harm because then he would bo be shorn of that false front which to the agnor ant indicates intelligence 1 carranza cannot be prisident al varo obregon however hoeler is ot of another type lie ile la Is strong and I 1 admire strong men and he admires me but since he has cad cadt in his lot with carranza I 1 shall continue to fight him until either he or I 1 has been swept oft off of alexi can sell were carranza out of the way general obregon and I 1 could soon come to peace bace terms and we yve would work together to build up my coun try |