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Show T BUGLER CAUSES j ARMY'S DEFEAT ud L8 NTaco, Ariz.. Jan. 11 -Brigadier 'oneral Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff apj ot the United States army, success- ic fully concluded tonight negotiations i for peace along the Moxican border. Moth Governor Maytorena, the thj ViHIsta commander, and General P. oi Elias Calles, commanding the Car ranza troops In Naco. Sonora, have signed the agreement eliminating tj, warfare along the Sonora border. ar Laredo. Tex , Jan. 11. Monterey is in held by Camilla troops, according te ,n reports here tonight, which said i.p that Oeneral Maclovla Hen-era ar- i, lived there today with a large force. When Herrera',s troops .approached 1 Monterey the citizens mistook them i or Villa troops and for a while pande-! pande-! moniutn reigned. Ranks and business f-stabllshments generally were closed, to telegraph operators deserted their of- ta lices and there was a general Flight 1 !ini the city. ii General Herrera hurriedly sent out scouts, who informed the populace h that no Villa troops were in sight, l r.nd tonight conditions were approach- j ing normal again r Reports of Villa's capture of Vic- o iona. capuai oi iamaiiipas, nao been declared untrue by the persons t in N'uevo Laredo, the Mexican town o opposite here, who are in close touch w ith the Fighting armies ! Carranza Holds Tampica. It was stated positively that Tam-pico Tam-pico still is held by Carranza foixcs The panic in Monterey was echoed In Nuevo I aredo and before news was received that Carranza and not Yiila troops were approaching Monterey, Mon-terey, approximately 5uo Mexicans rossed from Nuevo Laredo to the American side, many of the poorer lasses bringing beds and household lurniture General Alfredo Ricaut, commanding command-ing the Carranza garrison at Nuevo Laredo, called in a detachment of troops from Golombia, twenty-five miles to the west, and (prevented refugees carying articles of value to the American side. Nuevo Laredo apparently was normal again tonight. Victory Due to Trick. Details of the battle of Saltillo. which ended yesterday in the defeat of 15,000 Garranza troops who were attacking about 10.000 Villa troops, indicate the trick of one man was largely responsible for the Garranza retreat. He was a bugler who, by prearr;;nger.ienf , deserted the Villa forces, joining the Garranza troops At a given signal, after he had joined the besiegers, this bugler sounded calls indicating that the enemy wai? on all sides of the Garranza troops Other buglers took up his call, believing believ-ing it was ordered from headouar-ers. headouar-ers. The Carranza troops retreated in disorder. Loss of life is reported to have been heavy. |