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Show Bi fcJ . JtL. j& Ji. A A &! B SON-IN-LAW OF - I PRtWAIT HE 1 I I1L.U&UL.IV U BBI1U 1 Jj EscraEii if With 300 Followers He Breaks I Through Lines to Join JH Ousted Executive S STORY OF CARRANZA'S fl LAST STAND IS TOLD fM Morale of Soldiers Breaks M When Food and Water mm Becomes Scarce VERA CRUZ, May 17. (By the AS- I If soclated Press.) General Candido I Of 4 Aguilar, governor of the state of Vera I '"jj Cruz, and son-in-law of President Car- l ranza, who has been virtually n. prison- 119 er of revolutionary forces near Orizaba I I S for tho past week, escaped last night. km It is believed he is trying to join Car- IjjO J ranza, who fled into the mountains ) ,J near Chalci Columa on Friday. Gener- II I J al Aguilar has with him about 300 of his followers. ImM Pursuit of Carranza is being vigor-ously vigor-ously pushed by Generals Pedro San- chez and Higinio Aguilar, leaders of f a grim battle with Carranza's army last week. They have a superior force of cavalry. jH Morale Lowered. Lack of food and water lowered the morale of Carranza's men so that their defeat was comparatively easy, says a l dispatchfrom The Associated Press' correspondent in the battle zone! He has just been joined by a correspond- Vl ent of the newspaperEl Dictatem of t-l this city, who was with Carranza when 91 he fled from Mexico City on May 7 11 and witnessed much of the fighting jH around San Marcos and Rinconada. When reyplujiorytrp-wiiptj,. t. downn-thd- ,v" to Jlee to Vera Cruz and establish his executive powers. His trains carried JH 10,000 men and a large amount of war munitions. On May 6 the Carranza trains pushed past Apizaco where they were joined by troops commanded by General Pilar Medina, but soon the engineers reported that their locomo-lives locomo-lives were out of water. il Rebels Defeated. IH down the road defeating a force of revolunlionists. After the track had been out behind it means was found to tako the presidential train further toward Vera Cruz and on May 11 it reached San Marcos. Rinconada was IH reached the next day and- there a bat-tie bat-tie was fought against troops com H manded by General Mireles, which H were defeated by the heavier columns commanded by Carranza. fl When the town of Algibes was 'IAN reached Carranza's men found the mM rails cut. No water could be secured 5 and the morale of the soldiers seemed IH to break, large numbers deserting. IH i On the afternoon of ,May 13 General IH Carranza army, but the attack was re-pulsed re-pulsed by a counter thrust led by Generl Murguin. jH Ground Abandoned. Tho next day Carranza abandoned IH somo of the ground and General San- IH chez launched a new attack which smashed the "Carranza line and routed IH a part of the government troops, More than 3,500 prisoners were taken by the revolutionists. It was immediately after this reverse that Carranza fled to the mountains. General Liderado Lara Torres, who IH was wounded in the fighting on Ma 13, and was later brought to this city for treatment, died .yesterday. nn |