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Show 1 HEAVY FIGHTING l ; on in lira Bv jjji I f General Villa Sends Message S i ' Expects to Take City S II By Night. lj IN HEART OF TOWN Sj II Most Terrible Battle of this or 80 !tt ny Ptevious Revolution- R ary Engaement aft J fi. Juarez, Mex., March 28 (1 p. m.) K- Heavy fighting continued in Tor- jj K reon today, according to a telegram ust received froin General Villa. Vil- K la- added that he expected to have ri3l5iHr the cJt-y bv tonight. He gave no dc- SjjB tails- o8Hf Juarez, Mex.. March 29. It was tigudK 'tth the expectation that Torreon ai5rB would crumble- under the rebel at- eltwlw tack todav that" officials here resumed butllalfk their tasks this morning. The last ofafffa reports yesterday were that General iSf. MoncJovio Herrera had cut his way from the eastern side of the city iSJ'tt through the business section to i the Se bull ring on the north; that General i!w2&B VIlla nad set out witu more troops fsETtfll- from Gomez Palaclo to join him and MliSK tllke suPreme command, and that the ffdS'lS Tederals were making a final stand .-tSir "l their defenses on the west side. ME? An unconfirmed rumor at midnight I W- had it that the rebels had taken the mlr wt" known as Cerro de la Cruz, an i2y W important defense, but verification 2Si l was. still lacking early today. 5k Latest advices from both Villa and Mi if' newspaper correspondents indicated EH $ that the rebels had carried their -ns- fl f sault into the very heart of Torreon SWB jr and that the federals were hard press- I ed. At that time it was General Her- rqra's force of 4000 men who were rc- 1 it ported to have entered the town from m ? the cast, the countermarch of General H i Villa into Torreon from the north was SSi expected to throw the Tederals un 7wL 2. der General Refugio Velasco into ut- tcr rout. M Terrible Battle Waged. jSB LI No. military official in Juarez today ifi 1 doubts that the battle which General IWf Villa has waged against Gomez Pa- 'Sffb't iacio, now uis, ana Torreon, has been J the most terrible of any engagement of this or any 'other revolutionary tiSo movement in Mexico" "General- Villa tyfi' Wgnf to the front .with 12,000 "season-fctfiir "season-fctfiir y-' " ed'Tneu, -well equippedMor-'aigoro'us? Mil smashing assault against "any resist BP 'i ance the federals might offer News elM 1 dispatches indicate, that the. federals SKk" fought fiercely and that the loss in i dead and wounded on both sides was iUiif i enormous. Lack of hospital facilities, jstm the heat of the desert wind and the Sfijjf ; four days of strenuous,, practically sag, 't constant fighting "under the virllo and H tenacious leadership ,of "Pancho" ' Villa, were believed to have amassed H f a horrible casualty list, y Villa Becomes Hero, fij I j Villa himself has become a hero. i EveiT'here in Juarez his praises pJl were being sung today. By.Maderis- tas and constitutionalists he is look- ST If cd upon as the greatest military i I genius in the southern republic, and 2 great confidence is expressed that he fM tvIII push his triumphant way with his fljj rebel army to the very doors of the r . national palace in Mexico City, I n'i With "Vivas" for Villa and "vivas" I f , Tor Garranza, the supreme ciilef of ftf, the revolution, rebel sympathizers I U gathered about the streets of Juarez 'J m today to welcome Carranza when he tfi ended his long overland march from ft. 1 Nogales to this city, enroutc to Chi- huahua. And none could tell wheth- ! Mr er "Viva Villa" or "Viva Carranza" fa M was shouted, with more fervor, tf, K A trainload of merchandise for Go- fji'W nieu Palacio was made up today. IK Stocks in that city are depleted and M S General Villa, instructed that duties A K on importations be suspended. 5 3 Federal Troops Rush South. -0 & ' Laredo, Texas. March 28. A Mexi- j I can federal military train was hur- I 9 riedly sent south from Nuevo Laredo 1 today bearing the Ninth inrantry and a some other troops. Their destination V w was not announced. Meanwhile. un fVln confirmed reports reached here that iftli fighting was in progress about forty fir K miles, south of Nuevo Laredo. It was thought that reinforcements for the i'ifi Nuevo Laredo garrison may have met opposition and wore trying to fight their way through to that city. g R The special "war tax levied on all tf Mexican exports eight months ago K was withdrawn at Nuevo Laredo to- I If dv 11 amounted to from three 'to III ten per cent in addition to regular ffliHf duties. N F Steamer Is Captured. Nogales, Sonora, Mex., March 28. The steamer Carmen, belonging to La Compania Navira Del Paciflco, has been captured and sunk by Constitutionalists, Con-stitutionalists, according to a dispatch sent here today by General Obregon. the rebel commander on the west coast of Mexico. The vessel was scuttled in Yavaros Bay and all of the crew were made prisoners. General Obregon said he had Issued Is-sued an order that all vessels of the Navira Del Pacificio be captured and destroyed on account of the company's com-pany's alleged assistance to Hucrta. |