Show REAL IN 51 STARTS ARTS IN MEXICO Chihuahua Dec 24 2 Tho new gov government go forces In this thin district an art armade made up of or GOO men under General Navarro at and vicinity and anti mon lilon at San Antonio math made ma e up Ul u of or men who were uninjured In the Mai Ma Paso ambuscade and rein reinforcements and 1300 who arrived arr I here last night and today The lat latter latler latter ter ler include a battery batter of or artillery made math up of oC two Ugh high mortars for Cor firing over overhills hills bills vo guns and two rap jd passenger coaches ar arnow arno now no on the trains of oC the Mexico A i Northwestern western railroad to forward tin the reinforcements Today was spent in it E loading food on the cars and in mak making ma maIng ing lug other preparations for the cam cani campaign campaign These rhese troops will go So first to ti San Antonio making a new force Coree of oC 0 2000 led by the best officers in Mex ico It la ia their program to take lake Mai Ma Ial i Paso tho the present rebel stronghold This once taken a Junction will bo b formed with ith and the troops which have hae come overland trod from So Sc Sonora Sonora nora All this will entail serious fighting hut but there is no foreigner here now no viewing affairs impartially who pre tends a belief boli r that lint tho the federals will vil not triumph tr eventually The rectos left heft thou their one chance of creat creal I ing a nationwide revolt when they thie failed to crush Navarro at Cerro Prie Pric to At that time lime they the thie did not bar hae inc r their th ir forces concentrated ed anti and Navar Navarro 10 ro hold held his own He is now on the defensive at While I he Is 18 under tinder orders not to take the offensive he h Is a defensive position which the th cannot emmot attack without disaster His job joh Is to sit tight and allow the reinforcements now no numbering treble his own force fOIce to no continue the lie campaign original force was It has han now been shown scarcely l more than thana a police force which a misguided government considered Diax is now non heading tho the army army arm The rho Associated Press tire tive brings word nod that In the fighting around and tho the west en trance to Mal Paso tho the were much inferior In numbers but at Mul Paso they the tiie were superior in position It will he two two f A weeks ago Sunday that Navarro Naano met tie the t e at Cerro and fought a drawn bat tie tic He remained thore there until the follow ing Thursday when whoa he be was ordered to clear Mal Mai 1 lal Paso of rebels to make way wa for a prospective troop train With his lIis entire force Corce he lie left Cerro Prieto and ani marched with every ever semblance of making an fill attack att k on the th revolutionists toward Rancho Santia Santiago go The rhe lie opened lire Jire but their shots full fell short Navarro then lion ordered a n and anti shot Oil off at a u tangent towards tour lour miles north For miles thuds he lie was protected by b hills hUIs hut but ut when the hills were ere pasted lasted Na Navarro Navarro I varro used shells on his hii pursuers who wore already alread running parallel l and rud nn I behind and kept them ole olf There was no lols of life and Nav Navarro Na arro occupied the tile shelter ol or the adobe houses of the tho town The rho next lay day Friday occupied occupied pied pled the lie railroad station where he lie now nosy has hiss headquarters and at fit the tue same time I sent a detachment of to I UtIe Mal Mai Paso These wont astray I I and aud they ther naturally found Cound none noire of ot the enemy j I This Tills accounts for Navarros official official cial report that hint he lie had taken tho the pass He though he lie had Meanwhile the federal force at ut was at tacked but b t was ivas repulsed Navarro I lost in iii this engagement about twelve dead ead Including two officers and about I 25 5 wounded The Tho lost loat I i lent ne killed and about 10 wound wounded i ed ell Tho latter atler were checked d in their charge in an nn arroyo arrojo where tho they sus sits tallied most of oC their losses Six S x of them remained at their post until all were killed During the fight ing of Thursday and Friday Frida the shells of or the tile federals did no damage e The revolutionists In time tinnie hogan began to rest them with contempt The rue ere the tho effective weapons used by j I tho the national troops The Tho shrapnel 1 used Instead of scattering as de tIc designed signed to do through some owe defect spouted like fountains One Ono of ot tho tue shells burst within twenty twiny cot of a detachment w without doing an nn damage Word rord from r m Navarros cami carn J states states I that the general grow grew Incensed nt nl the I failure of oC tile Ure gunnery gunner antI and arrested the gLn gan g n captain j l Tho The detachment which i j Shot up tho the troop train al itt the eastern entrance to Mal Mai Paso about aboul six hundred men The Tho ambuscade i cost the federals about thirty one I J I I killed and nail oo 00 wounded I |