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Show GUERRILLA WARFARE In Mexico Takes Place of Rebels' Organized Revolution Casas Grandes, Mexico, July 5. Rebels under General Salazar, commanding com-manding the vanguard of the insur-recto insur-recto army, have begun to terrorize this region. Tension among among the Americans Amer-icans and foreigners was increased today with the imprisonment of C. E. Hollingsworth, manager of the general gen-eral store of Kettlesen & Degetau here, when he refused to give tho rebels supplies. They looted the store. El Pa6o, Tex., July 5. Organized revolution in Mexico, in so far as its protense to a mlltlary campaign of concentrated forces goes, was by today's to-day's movement of the rebel army to have ended and In its place there was substituted a guerrilla warfare threatening threat-ening widespread devastation in northwestern Mexico. Five troop trains bore the retreating insurrectos from the vicinity of Chihuahua city to Juarez, opposite here, and before the day was over it was expected most of the rebels would be sent southwest from Jaurez, a distance of 75 miles from Casan Grandes, from which point it was intended to effect an entrance to the rich mining state of Sonora. Rebels Destroy Bridges. Having abandoned Chihuahua to the federals, the rebels destroyed all bIdges between Bachimba, where the last battle occurred, and Sauez, 30 miles north of Chihuahua, the small station at which the rebel outposts now are gathered. The evacuation of Chihuahua means that the zone of rebel control will be greatly diminished, dimin-ished, Jaurez being the only Important Impor-tant point that remains. General Orozco, the rebel chief, spent the night at Sauez, but was expected in Jaurez today to direct the movements of various bands Into which the rebel army is now disintegrating. disinte-grating. Jaurez is now tho rebel capital, cap-ital, trainloads of archives having been sent there In the la3t few days. Although tho invasion of Sonora means fighting In the mountains, tho rohels, most of them mountaineers, believe themselves equal to It Revolution Rev-olution in that form, they, say, wjll prove moro -exatious to the government govern-ment that an ordinary camjjaign. To check tho rebel invasion of Sonora the Mexican government is moving forces from Agua Prieta and western west-ern Sonora Fully four thousand men are believed to be under way to intercept in-tercept tho rebels. Federals to Attack from Rear. General Sanjines left Agua Prieta today for Frontera. Sonora, to take command of tho main column, and while the forces of General Sanjines nre engaging the rebels on the state line between Sonora and 'Chihuahua, the arm of General Huefrta is to move from tho city of 'Chihuahua along the Mexican Northwestern railroad rail-road toward Casas Grandes and attack at-tack the rebels from tho Jrear. The next battle, if apy occurs, should be at Casas Grandes. At Jaurez Jau-rez there is little likelihood of a fight, as the rebels plan to withdraw most of their forces toward Sonora. Reports early were to, the effect that no federals had yet Entered the city of Chihuahua, although a detachment detach-ment of cavalry under General Ra-bago Ra-bago was said to be nearing the town |