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Show 5 Mexico Honeycombed With Revolution I Chihuahua Latest City to Fall Before Advance of Rebel . GENERALS CONFER ON . PLAN OF CAMPAIGN Federal Soldiers Take Steps for Defense of City of AGUA PRIETA, Sonorn, Mexico, May l.(By The Associated Press) Moxlco is honeycombed with revolution revolu-tion and Instead of the "steel ring" of soldiers President Carranza of Mexico Mex-ico announced would bo put around Sonora, tho first stato to secede from hlfl administration, the rebels have put about Mexico City In every state except ex-cept one," General A. I. Vlllareal said hero today .In' making public the accomplishments ac-complishments of tho. revolution in less than one month since it began. General "Villaceal came here from " El Paso to discuss the revolutionary situation with General P. Ellas Calles, commander of the revolutionary forces,' for-ces,' in tho northwest. For three - hours yesterday he hold a telegraphic conference "from, military headquarters rr hero with Governor- Adolfo d la' Huerta at Uermosiljo con corn ihsthc 'General Villareal formerly as constitutional consti-tutional governor of Nucvo Leon, and military governor of the states of Nucvo Leon, Tamaulipas and Coa-huila. Coa-huila. Ho was president of the Aguas Callentcs convention which selected) Vcnustlano Carranza to be president of Mexico. Chlhualnin Falls EL PASO. Texas. May 1. The-serious situation in Chihuahua as the result re-sult of the Sonora revolt against the Carranza government was brought home to border residents today 'with announcement of the fall of Chihuahua Chihua-hua City, state capital, and the state-! mcnt that Colonel Augustin Mora, or the Juarez garrison, had left that city and Avas on his way to 'Mexico City by way of Laredo for a conference with President Carranza. Col Mora was ordered to Mexico City by General Gen-eral J. G. Escobar, commander at Juarez. He passed through El Paso shortly after midnight. Almost simultaneously with announcement an-nouncement from Juarez admitting tho state capital was in the hands of the ' rr- rebels, It was stated that Ella dc la O, civilian commander of the loyal troops at Chihuahua City, was on his way to Juarez - with the remnant of his e command. He was expected here to day. Both General Escobar and Col. Mora last night Issued statements declaring their loyalty to tho Carranza gofern-ment gofern-ment and pledging their honor as solT dicrs to the defonso of Juarez. The statement was Issued after Sonora officials of-ficials had declared that the Juarez "garrison was on the vcrgo of a revolt In sympathy with the Sonora move-j mcnt. j Tho approach of the- rebel leader Juan Andrew Almazan toward Mata-moros, Mata-moros, the Mexican port opposite Brownsville, Texas, camo as no surprise sur-prise to persons here familiar with the rebellious movement. It was reported re-ported that the rebels had cut the railroad line aouth of Matamoros, preparatory pre-paratory to tho advance of trops to-ard to-ard the border. oo H 600 CARPENTERS IN H SHIPYARDS STRIKE PHILADELPHIA, May 1. More than GOO carpentors and joiners at the New York ahlpynrd, Camden, and 150 carpenters at the Pusey and Jones yard, Gloucseter, N. J., struck today. Tho strike was caled to press a dc-mand dc-mand for more wages. About 300 carpenters are reported out at Cramp's Hf ' Shipyard. H ' Structural Iron workers are reported to havo struck In various parts of the clty ,n sympathy with carpenters who ar asW.ns for a wage increase. |