Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-25 | Page 1 | Mexican Rebel Army Captures Another Town

III REBEL sue TOWN Mazatlan, However, Where Americans Are Concentrated, Concen-trated, Is Still Holding Out CHARGES ARE MADE ! AGAINST CARRANZA i Federal Troop Commander Is j Said to Have Left Post to Join Sonora WASHINGTON, April 24.' Capture by Mexican rebels qt Topolobampo to which American gunboats were dis-j patched, and Guymas, was reported to-1 night in official dispatches. I Mazatlan in which- a number ofj I Americans have concentrated is still j holding out, the report said, although it was not believed' the small number! of government troops there would be.' able long to withstand attacks by reb-j j e forces,-said ' to be moving, Pn tnj .townJ . V ' r . L-vwn.aajaedday4hatarj ('quest from consular agents for war-I war-I ships was made about two weeks ago." ! Charges Made. . AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, April 24. ' 1 The Carranza administration in Mex-1 ' ico is corrupt and officials, unpopular! with Carranza, but elected by popular! vote, have been ousted by the military! In several states, according to charges .made here by General P. Elias Calles.j i commander of the revolutionary forces! Of Sonorn, in a statement issued here! iouay. The Sonora revolutionary army un-der un-der General Angel Flores. has progressed prog-ressed 20 miles beyond Culiacan, capital cap-ital Sinaloa, according to information given out tonight at tho headquarters, here of General Calles. I Carranza Defection. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 24. The first defection of Carranza troops in northeast Mexico occurred Wednes-J day, according to reports received here today from sources considered re- liable when Col. Gallegaha, command-: ing tho garrison at Linare, Ncuvo Leon, sixty miles east of Monterey, ! ! with his garrison left tho city to join ' the anti-government forces. The importance of the reported defection de-fection 3s enhanced by the fact thai Linare is on the Mexican National rail-j road which connects Tampico and Monterey. Vessel Ig Seiicd. CALEXICO, Cal.. April 24. Fred McCoy, a rancher of Lower California, I owner or tho Edith D, a ship plying j between ports on the Gulf of Calif oi nia, today said he had received wordj the vessel had been seized at Guavmas : Sonora, by Sonora officials. Guns! I were mounted on the ship after thoj seizure, according to the message. McCoy is an American citizen. nn 1