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Show PLAN TO STRIKE A HEAVY BLOW Generals Villa and Cairanza to Join Forces for March on Capital. ARMY IS INCREASING Will Fight Huertistas With Guns Taken at Ojinaga Deserters Join Rebels. Chihuahua, Mex , Jan. 10. Definite announcement was made by General Francisco Villa today that he will enter en-ter the central and southern states of Mexico with a rebel army of 15,000 solJiers He will attempt to join forces with General Carranza at Guadalajara, Gua-dalajara, where an army of 25.000 or more will begin to march toward Mexico Mex-ico City. "We will strike a blow whlrh the Huprta government will be unable to withstand," said General Villa, after he had been In communication b telegraph tel-egraph with General Carranza who Is in Sinaloa state. He said he had been Informed that General Carranza could muster 10,000 men and that his own army was being increased daily. On the southward march he and General Carranza, he said, would command the largest uni fied revolutionary force ever assembled assem-bled In Mexico General Villa brought here as a result re-sult of his victory at Ojinaga 3.000 rifles, twelve cannon and seven rapid fire guns captured from the federals Villa's forces are divided as follows: fol-lows: City of Chihuahua, 9.000; Santa Rosalia, 2.000; Jimlnez, 2.000. These with the forces at Parral, and the men under General Urblna south of Escalon, will he In the march on Mexico City with the exception of those necessary to police the country to the north Groups of deserters from the Huertistas Huer-tistas are treating for amnesty and w ish to join the movement south, Gen eraJ Villa said. The Huertistas have burned all the bridges between Bermejillo and Tor-reon, Tor-reon, and have retired to that place after having been defeated by L'rbina near Maplml. Sanderson, Texas, Jan. 16. General Ynez Salazar. commander of Mexican Mexi-can federal volunteers, who was driven driv-en out of Ojinaga, Mex . by the rebels, reb-els, was arrested here today. oo |