Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-04-03 | Page 12 | Robles Turns over Command

R06LES TURNS OVER COMMAND Washington. April 2. -Dispatches to the Carranza agency here stating that General Obregon was threatening the line of communications of the Villn-Zapata Villn-Zapata forces by occupying Quoretaro, and a message from General Villa to his representative announcing the surrender sur-render of General Jose Isabel Robles. secretary of war to General Eulalio Gutierrez, were the chief developments develop-ments tonight In the military situation situa-tion in Mexico The defection of Robles. who was said to have turned over his command on promise of amnesty, which was granted, was accompanied by the flight to Davis. Tex , it was reported, of General Eugenia Aguirre Benavides, another Gutierrez cabinet oficer. Secretary Bryan announced formally formal-ly that the plan for the declaration of Mexico City as a neutral area, within which no factions w-as to engage In military operations, was under con-; sideration, but said he had no state- ! ment to make as to the progress of the negotiations. He added that the plan for the neutralization of the railroad rail-road from Mexico City to Vera Cruz had been taken up as a separate proposition. prop-osition. Surrender of Robles. General Villa telegraphed his representative, repre-sentative, Enrique C Llorente from Tamoxoc as follows "I have the pleasure to abvise you that General Jose Isabel Robles, secretary sec-retary of war under Gutierrez, after a conference which he had at Mazapil with General Margarito Sallnos, who was commissioned by me to confer with Robles at the suggestion of the latter, has surrendered to the conven- I tion government and has solemnh I promised to retire to prlate life. He delivered to mo four machine guns and all his command who have been re-enllsted In the convention ranks The surrender of Robles has Induced me to give orders to all the forces of I the convention not to injure or mo-lost mo-lost General Robles from now on."