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Show SOLDIERS SUFFERING Winter Weather in Nor- thern Mexicp-False Reports Published i . El Paso, Feb. 21. Soldiers on both sides, in the struggle in tho Mexican Insurrection, are suffering today from the rigors of winter as the result of , the general fall of snow nnd sleet ' throughout this soctlon yesterday and last night. General Navarro's army is absolutely without food and sup- j plies at Guadaloupe, east of here, and the Mexican soldiers, with only sandals on their feet and used to warm climates of southern Mexico, are suffering keenly. The Insurgents are also short on provisions at their rendezvous south of hero and are suffering. suf-fering. Mall advices from Parral say that the Insurgents have taken the town of Naca, near Santa Rosalia Chihuahua, Chihua-hua, and that one nativo merchant was forced to give $4,000 to the cause. Six hundred federals are operating near Parral. Last week they captured cap-tured four Insurgent prlsonors. Correspondents of Mexican pnpers complain that their dispatches reach Maxim CItv ontirelv chanced. An El DIario correspondent declares that he filed his story to Mexico last night, saying that Navarro had lost 90 men In tho fight with E. Flores Magon, I and the report was printed In Mexico Mex-ico that the Insurgents lost 90. 00 |