Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 2 | Mexicans Say Revolutions is Still Growing

I Advices From Private Sources Claim Two More States Have Seceded. MEXICAN EMBASSY MAKES ADMISSIONS Commission En Route to So-nora So-nora to Adjust Trouble Be-I Be-I twcen Factions. WASHINGTON, April 21. Reports i from Mexico, official and unofficial, to day emphasized the growing strength ot the revolutionary movement led by the state ot Sonora. Advices from private sources said two new stales, Hidalgo and Tlaxa-i cala, supported by their legislating and state troops, had joined in the se-1 cession movement. Other dispatches I told of scattering but strong additions Iiu me ii-iuiuuuuibib leu ay ucnerais ! Arnulfo Gomez, Rodolfo Gnllegos, Alii Al-ii bundio Gomez and Amaro Murango General Arnulfo Gomez was said to 1 h'tve occupied Tuxpan with 3,000 men . and to be threatening Tampico, the vital center of Mexico's oil region. Mexican Embassy Makes Admissions. The Mexican embassy issued n formal for-mal statement on the situation, de-1 de-1 Glaring the revolution to be only a lo c-.l movement. The statement "added, however, that if the secession movement move-ment should spread, it would result in "the stoppage of business, curtailment of wealth and international commerce and the indefinite postponement of the foreign debt." The embassy said ihe only state governors gov-ernors sympathizing with the rebellion rebel-lion were Governor Enrique Estrada Of Zacatecas. and the cnvnrnnv nf Mio. Ihoacan. This was the first confirma lion received here that the Zacaioens governor had joined the revolutionists and his accession is regarded as important im-portant owing to the important position posi-tion of his state. Gen. Hill Sides With Rebels. Another statement from the embassy said General Benjamin Hill, campaign manager for General Obregon, win is a candidate for the presidency and is siding openly with the revoliitioiisls, , has been wounded in a battle at Cnn-treras Cnn-treras in which the rebel force? woro defeated. General Hill by birth is an American. The senate committee investigating ' Mexican relations today summoned Gen. Salvador Alvardo, who was gov- eraor of Yucatan for Carranza during jf the Hencquiu controversy and who is now In Washington, to appear before it Tuesday.