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Show FIGHT ON AT I DAYBREAK I Refugees Rush Across H Border Rebels and Federals Exchange H Hot Fire H Laredo, Tex.. March 17 A battle HK unexpectedly began in Nuevo Laredo, H the Mexican town opposite here, at iV' daybreak today Carranzistas. re- ' I ported to number 200. during the night (HE? had forced their way into the city and m occupied a lard factory. At dawn S flwf salvo of rifle firing awoke Americans BBS1 in Laredo The first sight that greet- Mffi ed them was a rush of refugees across the bridge to the American side. Men and women carrying their Bri children Jammed the bridge, heed- less of hurried wagon traffic Nu- H&j raerous officials of Nuevo Laredo were among the refugees The of- Fleers carried books and records by the armful. jHBQ Light Rifle Fire. BS The Carranzistas at daybreak ar- M rived within four miles of Nuevo La- BPS redo and opened a light rifle fire. The Bp-dlstance Bp-dlstance was too great. howeer, for this preliminary firing to arouse the sleeping American town or to dis-nirt) dis-nirt) Nuevo Laredo. The rebels ad-vanced ad-vanced cautiously until they were within the city limits. They rushed Into a lard factory, barricaded win-dows, win-dows, then constructed entrenchments for skirmish lines with the aid of outlying fences and sheds. Rebels Fall Back. At 6:30 their files awoke the twin cities with a sudden fusillade. This was followed by an hour's silence. ! Then the firing was renewed for a H few minutes, only to be succeeded by another silence About there the reb-els reb-els fell back from (he lard factory un-der un-der a hot federal rifle fire and re-treated re-treated slowly, pushing hard by gov-eminent gov-eminent troops. 1 u unel Brewer, commanding of fi -cer of the Fourteenth United States cavalry on patrol duty here, sent word K early today that there must be no fir.nt In a direction which would en- Be danger border poiin Igy Larly reports placed the number of t'arranzistas at 600, but when the re- lb treat began their number was esti- F mated at 200 It was reported that jfc many persons had been wounded In the fighUafi at Nuevo Laredo W Twenty 'a rranzistas and 15 feder-als feder-als were killed. Nearly 50 soldiers were wounded. The Carranzistas retreated to tho hills south of Nuevo Laredo, where they prepared for a fresh assault The street battle continued for an hour and a half. oo |