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Show 1 : REBELS WILL SEEK U .& RECOGNITION I CARUZA FATE I STILL UNKNOWN I TO 1SI0LRS H Latest Reports Indicate He HI and Force Are Standing H EXECUTION OF TWO 4 - PERSONS CONFIRMED L Rebels Now Control All But K Three States of Mexican WtZjr Republic B$ WASHINGTON, May 11. The Mkg revolutionary government will ask HE for Immediate recognition by the Ha American government. 39 A movement to this end already MM has been Inaugurated by the revo- MB lutionary regime, which haa its BP headquarters In the state of Sono- Bf fa, where the revolution first was Hfuj launched. Mm Eralllano Tomer., commercial 9H ngent at Xognlcs of the rcvolu- mKA tlonnry government, s reported HX to hnvo been entrusted with Uio WMf mission or negotiating with tho H American government. MM A report originating In Torrcon Mm fays the new regime Is to call for Mm a loan of 500,000 pesos to bo used MM for payment of Its troops. Wgm According to Xogales' advices BKgr r-r General Obrcgon has placed ldm- Wjuft) 1 jclf under the orders or General MW do la TTuerta, provisional prcsi- Wuii dent of Mexico. fint An unconfirmed report rcacli- i&SSi ins border points today said Car-HRy Car-HRy - - -i-afiza- liaU escaped fronr his cap- WftA tors and fled on horseback into the mountains. I (By The Associated Press.) While the advices come through from Mexico on the revolutionary situation sit-uation there arc fragmentary and conflicting; con-flicting; thev cast -considerable doubt on the reports that President Caran- zu has been made a prisoner. A Vera Cruz dispatch from the newspaper El Dlctamen, a member of. The Associated Press, bearing Mon day's dale, declared the fugitive presi-. dent of the republic, had broken I through the revolutionary lines and was standing at bay -with 4,000 men at San Marcos27 miles north of Pucbln. Pre-suppcfging the accuracy of the reports that Carranza is still at liberty the situation he finds himself in, according ac-cording to the Vera Cruz advices, is precarious . It is announced that gov- ernment troops in Vera Cruz have des- y C' erted their commander, General Can-dido Can-dido Aguilar, the governor of the state, and gone over to the revolutionists, making that state apparently no longer long-er a safe refuge for the fugitive president. presi-dent. UiM In addition revolutionary' forces un- mm dor Generals Hill and Trevlno were re- mm ported closing in on Carranza near San Hil Marcos. all T?.T. PARO. Tot.. Mav 11. Conflict- ns rePrls concerning the where-f where-f m'M abouts of President Carranza, varlous- j jfjjfl ly reported captured, In hiding and at film Day wItn nrmy oi '1,00 sold5ers' ; could not be cleared up by revolution- ' tels here, they said. El Paso leaders of the liberal constitutionalists con-stitutionalists said their only information informa-tion wa3 Carranza had been captured by revolutionary troops at Apizaco. Execution of Candido Aguilar, sou-ini' law of the Mexican president, and! General. Francisco Murguia, was thoro- 1 uglily confirmed, they said. The revolutionists now controlling all but three state in Mexico accomplished accom-plished their coup in one month. On April 10 Sonora withdrew from the .jj, Carranza government, setting In force1 Cv the elements which overthrew Carran-1 . . - za and sent him a fugitive from Mexi- j General Alvaro Obergon, leader of i Ihe Liberal Constitutionalist party, escaped es-caped from Mexico City a.t midnight, 1 April 12, disguised as a railroad brake-1 man. He made his way to Iguala, Guerrero, where he joined the forces that took Mexico City, May 7. Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico, Mexi-co, went to the rebels April 2C, although al-though Juarez did not fall until May i. The revolutionary "plan of Agua Prieta" in which formal war was declared de-clared on Carranza and the program of the rebels enunciated was signed and published April 23. |