Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 1 | Rebel State's Troops Move on More Towns

REBEL STATE'S !j TROOPS MOVE i 1 ONMORETOWNS. r l Sonora Soldiers Capture Cap-1 ital of Adjourning State, Says Official Report MANY RECRUITS IN FORCE OF INVADERS r; Movement Is Undertake, to Oust Carranza and Get Elections Called NOGALES. Sonora, April 17. (By the Associated Press.) General Angel An-gel Flores, with 5,000 Sonora troops, captured Culiacari, capital of the adjoining ad-joining state of .$jnaloa this morning, I according to 'official announcement i from Sonora military headquarters at Hormosillo. 'i r The Sonora revolutionists" proceeded I immediately to march on Mazritlan, an ijraportant 'port on the. Sjnaloa coast. After occupying Mazatlan. it was announced, an-nounced, the Sonora troops -will march on- the state of Nayarit. with Tepic tlh(Hcaprta Ir.sthirObj'ctlve. txge ' 'riumUers or irVops for tho rbVolutionar I movement agninst the Carranza government gov-ernment were expected to bo obtained in Nayarit. j Hundreds of former Carranza sol-'diors sol-'diors have joined General Flores since he invaded Sinaloa Tuesday last, it iwas said. I Troops Bring Arms, i The telegram stiid Carranza forces joining ihe revolutionists brought with them full equipment including arms, ammunition and food supplies. The I Sonora forces when they entered Sinaloa Tuesday last were said then to number less than 2500 men. Fivo hundred troops were sent from ihere today under Col. Jesus Aguirre to i reinforce the garrison at Agua Prieta, and other troops concentrating there against any invasion of the state in that direction by Carranza forces It was stated that 1500 troops wore sent from Hormosillo today under General Manzo to reinforce General Flores. Would Oust Carranza. .. Private telegrams from Hermoslllo said information had been received ihere from Mexico City that General i Pablo Gonzales, a candidate for the presidency of Mexico, had inaugurated a movement to remove President Carranza Car-ranza and put in his place a provisional provision-al president who would guarantee fair elections in July. The movement, It was said, had been endorsed by several sev-eral northern Mexico states. Liberal leaders here said that if Carranza were removed the Sonora movement would cease Immediately. It was aunounced by" Sonora officials offi-cials here that beginning tomororw passenger service on the Southern Pacific Pa-cific do Mexico, an American-owned railroad, seized by the state eight dnys ago, would be discontinued and the operation op-eration of trains devoted exclusively! to troop movements. i Obregon Is Well. General Obregon is well and hopes to reach Sonora within a fortnight, according ac-cording to information made public here which was said to come from General Francisco Serrano, private secretary of the presidential candi- ' date. Serrano was said to be in Eagle Sonora leaders, while objecting .stringently to tho proposal for Carranza Car-ranza troops to cross United States territory from El Paso, Texas, said that under international law the troops would have to be sent through American Ameri-can territory in bond and that they would be compelled to cross the Sonora Son-ora boundary unarmed. They said the United States could not nliow the Carranza Car-ranza troops to have their weapons until again on Mexican soil, and that their arms must either precede or follow fol-low them into the state. The Sonora forces, thus, they said, would either take charge of the arms If. they arrived ar-rived first, or imprison the troops If they were first. The decision of the United States army on the question is being awaited with great interest in Sonora. Plans of Attack. Hermosillo military headquarters reports said the federal forces planned to enter Sonora in three columns, commanded respectively by Generals Dieguez, Blanco and Francisco Mur-gula. Mur-gula. The seizure of the Wells Fargo Express Ex-press company in Sonora as previously previous-ly announced did not tnko place. Tn-Stoiyl Tn-Stoiyl -a 'new company" with A. Velasco as -head and with the. backing of the filaejrb'egau operations today.