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Show uu k FAILURE i I Juarez Was to Have Leen Attacked by an "Army" J Juarez, Mcx., Sopt 13. An attack upon Juarez by a band of 1G0 liberals, warning of which threw this city Into great excltemont last night, failed to materialize through the Inability of tho liberal junta in El Paso to supply arms and ammunition The band, composed of about thirty Americans, a few Germans and Itnlians, and a hundred or more Mexicans, gathered on tho banks of the Rio Grande to I receive the armB that had been prom- I Ised them. They were met by a member of the junta with three rifles and an old pistol and the Information that "this was the best tho junta rnnM tin " Disgusted, the "army of Invasion" disbanded and according to Its leader, lead-er, an American, the threatened Liberal Lib-eral uprising ended with last night's fiasco. Many residents of Juarez, under;the Impression that tho city was to be attacked, crossed over to El Pa6o for the night " w - Troops were sent in pursuit of the Liberals, but none could be found. |