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Show PREPARING FOR BATTLE. If Peace Conference Falls Rebols and Federals Will Fight at Nogales. NOGALES, Me., May 3. Should the peace conference at Juarez fail, It will bo tho signal for a battle here. Federals and rebels have been active during the last ten days strengthening strengthen-ing their positions Both seem anxious anx-ious for a fight. Federal forces near Nogales total about 300. Three bands of revolutionists numbering six to Eeven hundred surround the town, ev-dontly ev-dontly awaiting orders to attack. They a're not so well armed o.r supplied with ammunition as the federals. U, S. Troops Have Machine Guns. Three hundred Americans of the Sixth cavalry, U. S A , are encamped at Nogales, Ariz., with machine guns, under command of Captains Furlong and Castcel. A crisis is expected day after tomorrow, to-morrow, which Is a fiesta. If a battle occurs here even more serious complications arc likely than at Douglas, because Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Ariz., are practically one city, separated only by a one hundred foot street, and 7,000 people llvo within a circle two miles in diameter, di-ameter, wijh the international l'.ne In the center. A number of refugees have come here from different parts of the states of Sonora and Sinaloa and the hotels and private houses aro full. All foreigners in Sonora have been advised to move their families to the American side |