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Show M REPUBLIC READYTO FIGHT FEDERAL ARMY Bloodshed Will Follow Car-ranza's Car-ranza's Attempt to Bring Rebel State to Terms AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, April 12. The military authorities of Sonora advised ad-vised the Associated Press this morning morn-ing that tho several detachments of state troops, numbering In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 1,500 men, who had boon drafted from the various garrisons throughout the stale during the lattor part of last month and sent' to the Sonora-Slnalog. boundary llno to Intercept Inter-cept any attempt on the part of General Gen-eral Manuel Dleguez to Invade tho state with Carranza forces fropi the south and seize control of the Do la Huorta administration, and who viu ordered to disband and return to their respective "garrisons, wore :osterday Intercepted by couriers and ordered to return to the state line stations and again take up patrol work. It being reported by the military that invasion is now feared from that direction by the federal forces. v Next Move Awnlted. I NOGALES, Sonora. April 12. Officials Offi-cials of the new "republic pf Sonora," which withdrew from tho Mexico government gov-ernment Friday, today awaited uio next move, which they declared must como from tho Carranza administration. administra-tion. In the meantime they propared for any military activity agahi3t the stale. Carranza has but one channel open for him to bring tho state back into tho federation of Mexican states, they Sonorawhat they claim is tho state's right, that ho will not send troops Into said. Ho must accede and guarantee Sonora against tho wishes of tho state government. Carranza Accused. The Sonora officials accused Carranza Car-ranza of forcing the break in relations by ordering federal troops into the stale despite the stato's demand that the order be cancelled. They said Carranza planned to sot up a military dictatorship and ousl tho present state officials afi part of a schemo to defeat the presidential candidacy of General Alvaro Obregon, a citizen of Sonora. Before the break came, open threats wero made that If Carranza troops at-, tempted to enter the slato they would bo met with stato troops and revolution revolu-tion result. The saino authorities now say attempt by Carranza to forco the stato to return to tho central government govern-ment will moan bloodshod. General P. Ellas Callcs, former governor of Sonora, and until roccntly a member of Carranza's cabinet, has been in ado military commander of tho new "republic." "re-public." Callcs has called for volunteers volun-teers to resist any attempted Invasion of tho atato by federal troops. |