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Show FEDERALS TO WAIT AWHILE Huerta's Troops Will Not Attempt Recapture Recap-ture of Matamoras Until Thev Can Stand 2,000 Men Against the Rebels Mexico City. June 9. The government govern-ment will not attempt to recapture Matamoras Immediately. It will or-t.'iiize or-t.'iiize as soon as possible a column of 2.000 men. but for the present the e troops are not available. The gunboat Vera Cruz, on which it in tended to send a force to Matamoras to dislodge the rebels, is still at Vera Cruz. The war department denies thai Zacateras capital of (he stale of th( same name has been taken by the rebels, but declares fighting still con Mnues there Private information however confirms the fall of the town and adds that the rebels are moving to the south against Aguas Caliente?. and that Saltillo is in danger of attack. at-tack. The rebels are practically In control of almost all the rural re glons In the north An .irea. including includ-ing the states of Zacatecaa, Durango and big sections of (jpajfeijla. Chihuahua, Chihu-ahua, Sonora, NueVo I. ton and Ta maulipns is isolated, the rnh news re-ceived re-ceived being an oceasienaPcourier or refugee The activity on both sides in the state of Michocican resembles the game of hounds and bare, tbe rebels capturing towns only to. evacuate them before pursuing federals. The monotony of the chase is broken a1 times by skirmishes which, according accord-ing to official reports, the federals always win. Tn Morelos the government has taken thousands of prisoners, some of them in fights, but most of them n pie residents of the villages characterised charac-terised as Zapata sympathizers Most of these have been forced into the federal army, some have been sent .o Qulntana Roo territory, and the remainder re-mainder have been shot Te Zapata adherents, however. still maim p in their activity, but some of the bands have changed their field of operations opera-tions to the neighboring state of Mexico. Mex-ico. Yesterday they captured Tenan cingp, an Important mining town ot that state In the northern Vera Cruz district in which there are many American farmers and oil well workers, the rebels have made fresh advances, although al-though the government professes to have received no news on this score It is reported that 100 more 4merl cans are to be removed from Tampl-co Tampl-co this week on the steamer Mexi-cano, Mexi-cano, chartered bv the Red Cross fund to carry' refugees from V. rs Cruz. The Mexlcano. which was scheduled to sail Wednesday frot.i Vera Cruz, has been held for additional addi-tional refugees and sent from tbe capital and for the mobilization Of other refugees at Tampico. The railroads are now operating as far north as Aguas Callentes and Ban Luis Potosl The line between San Luis Potosi and Tampico. over which ! fuel oil is moved, was cut again Sunday. |