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Show oo AMNESTY GRANT Efforts to Arrange for Surrender Sur-render of General Canuto Reyes and Other Villista Leaders Progressing. Torreon, Mexico, April 5. Efforts to arrange the surrender under an amnesty grant of General Canuto Reyes and other Villista leaders of the Torreon district are being hastened. hasten-ed. Meanwhile it Is reported that a band of Villa supporters have completely com-pletely alienated the bandit's cause in the neighborhood, of Sombrerete by wrecking a passenger train. This took place last Thursday, a number of people being killed I Sombrerete Som-brerete lies between Durango City and Canitas on a brancr of the Mexican Mexi-can Central railway. Following General Reyes' offer to make peace with the Carranzlstas, on the ground that he was weary of useless use-less bloodshed, General Trevlno, military mili-tary commander here, named a peace commission to confer with the chieftain chief-tain This commission returned today from a meeting with Royes, reporting that no agreement had been reached. General Treviuo immediately ordered it to return to another conference General Reyes wishes six weeks in which to notify all his followers. Gen-eral Gen-eral Tievlno will insist, however, that oil the Villa leaders must surrender inside a ten day limit and that he will deal with them individually. Villa Generals to Surrender. Hilaro Rodriguez and a number of less important generals' are wjth Royes and aro expected to come in with him if terms are agreed on. After several days interruption train service has been resumed between be-tween here and Durango. It is believed be-lieved that the bandits who wrecked the train near Somberete were remnants rem-nants of the Argumedos-Zapatistas. Torreou is quiet. oo- |