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Show I MEXICAN GENERAL EXECUTED AND WORLD LOSES FAMOUS MAN I General Felipe Angeles was classed, I before the great war. as one of the world's foremost artillerists He had attained considerable fame as an artll lery commaander In the Mexican army under the long regime of President I'inr. and cast his fortune With Fran Cisco I Madero In the revolution by which Madero seized the Mexican pres idency. Subsequently General Angeles enlisted his skill in support of the cause of Francisco Villa against the Carranca government and was credit . d with planning many of the battles Villa won. Both friends and enemies of General Angeles have declared that he was an uUselfish patriot and that his hope was to bring about peace in Mexico. He was successively student, in StmctOT and director of the Mexican ' Military college, Chapultepec, and an author of several textbooks nut all ot V hieh dealt with militar matters Graduating from t hapultepec in He was assigned to the engineers but Inter to the artillery corps with rank hi captain. In this hitter branch he TVed os a member of several tech nical commissions, was sent to Europe lo inspect artiller for the Mexican government nnd while there was ?rad-untcd ?rad-untcd from the French artillery schools Fountalnbteatt -'-nil Mallly He wrote a text book embodying some of observations in Europe and France decorated him with the Cross of the ILogion of Honor. Angeles was barred from returning: to Mexico when Madero . revolution i dCurred but whin Madero became Provisional president Angeles was re-; railed and placed in command at Chapultepec In 1912 he was made a 1 1 eld commander, already having been omnussioned as a general, and com-nflmdod com-nflmdod troops in a campaign jcainst 'he bandit Zapata In this service he id to have won the good will of I he .Mexicans b his humanitarian pol-When pol-When Madero sacrificed his life as a penalty for his revolution, Angeles was first imprisoned and then ban isfted He returned to lend his support Lfl ilia's various campaigns and it is l.ired that when Villa followed hi .'.d ice the bandit leader was Victor-ou5 Victor-ou5 After Villa's famous raid upon Columbus, New Mexico, Angeles went I io the I.'nited States and remained i here for about two years. H- returned to Mexico in November, IMS, expressing the hope that he might unite the scattered revolulion-g!fy. revolulion-g!fy. factions into a compact unit and pa'&ify that country "before it was f illed to account" He accompanied Villa in the attack on Juarez, June 15. 1919. when American troops crossed the Rio Grande and dispersed the revolutionists. rev-olutionists. Afur this incident he appealed ap-pealed to the United States military jtbonties in the name of the "fellowship "fellow-ship which exists among military men' io define the attitude of the United States toward Mexican revolutionists but the United States authorities declined to communicate with him on J the ground that he did no l represent I ihe Mexican government. As evidence that General Angeles v. as porropted by desire to promote peace in Mexico it has been said that Villa's payroll which was among his papers taken in the attack on Juarez honred that while Villa's brother Hipolito, was credited with drawing 130,000 Angeles' name was on the list Augeles was born in the town ot Zacualtipan, in the state of Hidalgo.1 June 13, 1869. He was the son of a re-l tired colonel who had served in the I v ar of intervention and against Max-1 mil.", an when the effort was made to) make that prince emperor of Mexico Ills wife and three sons lied in Ell Pstao, Texas, during the time ho was in the field with Villa. Execution Performed CHIHUAHUA. cjtTY, No 26. Opposite I Hjl the revolutionary general, Felipe Anse"..--. ' lliia morning five soldiers with liflos B( ready. Thoy fired one volley into the breast H of Angeles. Angeles fell forward. He then wan lying PH, on ihe floor of the barracks The left fcld4 of his face was on the floor. An officer stepped up to the already dead man and delivered the "coup de Hij c:acc " This was shot from the pistol oT Ihe Cnrranza officer. It entered be-li'nd be-li'nd the right ear of Ang?le. Hi A military surgeon aiiypd and pei- HL rcn.icd the legal autopsy. Later the body I ' as token to the home of a friend and W buried from there. General Angelca vent the few hours I bstwet n the time of being sentenced and the time of execution -with friends and a priest. During most of the night thy discussed philOSOpry, mnthemntlr., poll-tlCI poll-tlCI nnd rellfffon The Rener.il nppnred to have- little concenf in the fate awaiting await-ing hlni I He slept the houi and n half between three and four-thirty o'clock Arising he dictated letters to Mrs. Angeles and ! his son. Albert and Manuel Valero Hn wrnip personally I.Htri s and autographs for his fiienHs to be delivered affr death, Which he carried with him to his stand for execution. |