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Show VILLA ENTERS MEXICO CITY Remains in Suburbs With RKSH Troops Awaiting Arrival BWMB of Provisional President. HEsH STATEMENT TO PRESS Bfi Gutierrez Is Supreme Power in BPS Mexico Northern Chief Is EffEfa Field Commander. sSlE Mexico City. Nov 30, via El Pas" IKplfll Tex.. Dec. 1 General Villa enter' U&lfln the capital today at the head of about Enfrtf U5.000 troops. He arrived during the iKwlS afternoon in the suburbs where he HKK remained during the evening receiving jreijam delegations and foreign consuls. VP- irfJtl la will not enter the capital part of ftl&S the city until the arrival of Provi- lliyjifffl slonal President Gutierrez. eLvS General Villa issued the following 'BjSgW statement to The Associated Pre s 'KaiS "My only mission is to restore orde" s2? iu Mexico and not to take persoual 81 revenge on any one. I promise that BiS8 order will be restored at once. 1 am acting as the subordinate of Provi- ByV sional President Gutierrez and the na- tional convention. iBM3 Acts as Field Commander. nKt' 'The provisional president is now R the supreme power in Mexico and I mpfe H am merely acting as field commander iRi'-'S of the armies Ali foreigners and IBf foreign property will be protected." Villa left Tula this morning after rec eiving new s oi cue c apune 8-''-'' Paehuca by the cavalry brigade of General Raoul Mad' CO taV-'s This Is better than my last vls'.l Ei "'f- when 1 came here as a frienjiliasa fcf..-' .(' prisoner of Huerta's." remarked Gen- fci. eral Villa upon his arrival. ;B Villa Has Narrow Escape. ftl-i General Villa had a narrow esc " Kp. 1 from death just before his entry into R the city. His train collided " ii 'i JE-" the train of GenefarChso above'Tula Thirty-two persons were killed and tort wounded i One mile below the scene of tba I up rk six mines were found connect ied with a hattery concealed in a ra- I vine The general's train passed j .over these mines which were not dis- i covered until the next morning. Zapata Appoints U. S. Agent El Paso, Tex.. Dec. 1. General Z. I Data has appointed ( amilo Arriaga as his diplomatic agent to the United States, said a message received to day by the carranza agency here. It was Haid that -rrlaga would arrive this week at Washlneton. I Carranza agents here today denied that Paehuca had been captured b I Villa fori es Tin y said that commu- nlcations had been established with ;ln Purango capital by wav of Nuevo j Laredo and that the Carranza com- I mandcr said that no battle of any kind had taken place. I v 1 1 1 r RrtiHirR at Tiauana. IF Tia Juana. Cab. Dec. 1 Three bun- dred Villa soldiers landed last night I on the coast of Lower California h the .Mexican steamship Manuel Her- I rerias. appeared today before Tijuana. j the Mexican town Just across the border bor-der from here, and gave the garrison until ? oVlock this afternoon to sur- I ,- ier. The garrison,, numbering. 125 men prepared to fight, while all the civil' officials fled across the line lr Tia Tuana. Three troops of United States cavalrv are on patrol duty on the American side of the line. ! The Tijuana garrison formerly owed . allegiance to Huerta Just where Its sympathies are placed at present is |
