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Show FEED li POT 10 STMT HE REVOLTj i Arrest of Boy and Girl Leads to Discovery of Plans for Uprising EL PASO, Texaa, April S. Five per-1 i sons are under arrest and information is In tho hands of the fedral grand jury here which may lead to other arrests in connection with what leu-eral leu-eral officials say is one of the most pretentious revolutionary plot3 ever conceived in the border hotbed of Mexican intrigue. But for the arrest of a boy and gjrl carrying messages to Francisco Villa by military forces in tho Big Bend district, dis-trict, officers admit the plan for the seizure of Lower California and simultaneous sim-ultaneous campaigns against Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua might have developed into serious proportions. Messages carried by Andres II. Vil-legas Vil-legas and Concepcion Perez, the latter said to be a piece of Villa, furnished information which led to the arrest at Los Angeles of Colonel Lamberto Chaves, of Villa's army on a charge of attempting to smuggle arms into Mexico, Mex-ico, and at Mcxlcall the arrest of A. orbQil and his aijl o on a similar charge. Chavez is said to be a colonel in Villa's army and Borboa had In his possession a proclamation naming himself governor of Lower California and naming his aide as chief of the army. According to details of the alleged plot made public yesterday, the revolutions revo-lutions were to cross into' Lower California Cali-fornia from the United States, seize arms and ammunition, of which there Is a big supply, and conduct simultaneous simul-taneous campaigns acalnst Sonora andi Sinafoa, while Gneral Villa launched a. vigorous campaign in Chihuahua to dlvort tho foderal troops from coming to tho aid of the state governments in the other two commonwealths. Whon the movemnt was to commence com-mence was not announced, and details of the plot aro binf: kept secret pending pend-ing further investigation by federal authorities of alleged violation of American neutrality. |