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Show VILLA RESUMES CHIHUAHUA FIGHT Starts Third Day's Battle at Early Hour in Effort to Take City. . . DESPERATE STRUGGLE General Murguia's Cavalry Advancing Carranza Officers Of-ficers Hoping to Capture Cap-ture Villa. Juarez, Mexico, Nov. 25. The Villa bandits again were repulsed today by the Carranza forces defending Chihuahua Chihua-hua City, according to a message received re-ceived at military headquarters here, the message said the bandits were driven clear of the suburbs after desperate des-perate efforts to take the city by storm. Juarez, Mexico, Nov. 25 Francisco Villa and his bandit forces resumed the attack on Chihuahua City. Mexico, Mex-ico, at daybreak today, according to Carranza officials, mancing the opening open-ing of the third days' fighting in Villa's Vil-la's effort to wrest the Chihuahua capital from General Jacinto B. Trc-vlno's Trc-vlno's constitutionalist forces. Communication Com-munication with Chihuahua City was still unimpaired, indioating the attack was directed from the southeast and southwest of the city. Murguia Cavalry Advancing. General Murguia's cavalry is( advancing ad-vancing overland from tfie vicinity of Santa Rosalia in an effort to relieve General Trevino's tired troops, according accord-ing to General Gonzales, commanding the Garranza garrison hero. General Murguia ordered the cavalry to proceed pro-ceed by the shortest trail, leaving the main column at the railroad, according accord-ing to a wireless message received by General Trovino at Chihuahua and transmitted here by telegraph. Carranza officers here are elated at the prospect of Murguia's men reaching reach-ing tho scene of the battle before Villa Vil-la and his chiefs will be captured in the general drive. Battle In Progress. The battle, which opened at 4 o'clock this morning, still Is in progress, prog-ress, but communication with tho border bor-der continues uninterrupted. General Trevino, after sending a message telling tell-ing of tie resumption of the fighting took the field in person. No details of the attack had been received at military headquarters here up to 10 o'clock today. Trevino Reports Fight. El Paso, Texas, Nor. 25. Soriano Bravo, Mexican consul, today received a message from General Jacinto B. Trevino, commanding at Chihuahua City, saying Villa renewed his attack at four o'clock this morning and giving giv-ing the names of the following de facto government officers included in the casualty list: Killed: Lieutenant-Colonel Ulyses Mler, General M. Gandara, Second Captain Rudulpho Cabello and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Elphidio Garza, the latter two officers of General Trevino's staff. Colonel Borquez was wounded. oo |