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Show BIG BATTLE IS PENDING 'Red' Army Will At-, tempt to Take San Francisco Today Salinas, Cal., Aug, H. The actual battle for tho possession of San Francisco Fran-cisco began today. From the Presidio Pre-sidio the regular troops, constituting the "blue" army of defonac, In command com-mand of Colon.cl Cornelius Oardner, pi arched southward to encounter the Invading "red" army of militiamen under General Robert Wankowskl, TVUich landed at Monterey. Thc "reds" began thoir northward advance from Salinas at daybreak, considerably hampered by barbed wire entanglements which the Twelfth Infancy In-fancy and Utah militia, constituting a "blue" outpbst, In command of Colonol Bowen, U. S. A., had sown In tho bed of the Salinas river. In falling hack on the main "blue'" command, the outlying defensive outposts out-posts have Worried t'rto Invaders, dynamiting dy-namiting bridges, carrying off captives cap-tives In brisk raids and generally harrasslng the advance of the larger force. "Rod" detachments wore working before dawn today, clearing away the barbed wlro, and "red" cavalary was hovering at runrise over the "blue" column near Salinas. |