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Show REBELS ENTER CITY IN ORDER No Looting Allowed at Occupation Oc-cupation of Torreon Property Protected. Mexico City, Oct. 11 The number cf Spaniards who lost their lives when Torreon was taken from thw federal troops by the rebels has dwindled to nine Instead of the sixty or Beventy at first reported A Mexican who asserts that he was pi.sent in Torreon when the rebels . nn red. arrived here today and says that altogether only thirteen per-sons per-sons were killed when the city was taken nine Spaniards and four Mex- I leans They were shot for falling lo deliver money and goods demand - j ed by the rebels as "loans." The same messenger declares that 1 the rebels entered Torreon In gool cider and at the ouet of the occ upation upa-tion there was no looting They were commanded by Generals Villa, Fercyra, Tomas Urbina and Panfllo Natera. Gene'ral Nat era. who appeared ap-peared to he In chief command, took Bl ps to protect property, but demanded de-manded certain funds and provisions from the residents, Less of Torreon Not Important. Provisional President Huerta appears ap-pears to regard the loss of Torreon ol no particular moment from a mSlitan POlnl of view He declared todaj thai II was the fortune of war and that the place would be cjutcklj recovered by the federal troops. He admitted that tbe moral Influence of the fall of Torreon was bad since i' mlghi give the peopl" of Mexico an unwarranted Idea of the E rength of the rebel forces With the resources at the command of the government (ieneral liuerla assert-ed assert-ed hit confidence that it was only a natter of days for Torreon to be reel re-el 11 and all the prestige of the federal troops regained. The presi-dei presi-dei 1 --aid he was able to send ten t'iniisaud men at once to combat the. rebels. Federal Generals Under Arrest, Ihe federal generalB, Rravo, Mun-.uia Mun-.uia and Kscudcro, who were at Torreon arrived here tocay by a special spe-cial train under arrest. They are to I be brought before a military court to answer for the evacuation of Tor-icon Tor-icon General Rravo Is one of tho 1 elde 1 officer- in the army. YVhll 1 f ho was nominally in command at Torreon, the active direction of th . ti DSe 01 that place was conducted bj General Mungoia, as Bravo was A persistent rumor was current In the federal capital today that th town of Mazatlan had been taken by the rebels. j |