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Show i WASHINGTON, April 25. Advices from Mexico City roaching here today, including some reports to the government, govern-ment, appeared to be in sharp conflict con-flict with the summary of the- bitua-tion bitua-tion as to tho Sonora revolutionary movement made public In Mexico City today, i Army officers who are studying (ho situation beyond the border were franlc In declaring their opinion, baaod on government advices, that the revolu-i revolu-i Hon was raoro srelous than the Car-1 ranza officiate were wllllnc to admit. Theso officers attached much import-nnco import-nnco to tho southward drive of Gen. Angel Flores' revolutionary forces! through tho state of Sinaloa, south of Sonora. They also saw no probability, probabil-ity, from their advices or unofficial reports, of an early attack Jn force by the federal forces on the revolution-I revolution-I ary forces in Sonora itself. It Delay Dangerous. 1 This delay, it was said, would be dangerous not only because of the size oftho force at hand, but because of the Increased activities of Villa along j the government's exposed llnea of communication. Flores, who has occupied Culiacan, is reported to be some distance south ; on his way to the state of Nayarit. i KIs movement has been facilitated by, I the use of motor trucks which he was ! I said to have used a few days ago to! rout a small cavalry detachment scnt li, o check him. Instead of waiting for; 1 the cavalry to attack, Flores sent his! trucks forward filled with troops and) 3 , tho federal cavalry broke and ran, said 5 I the report, with the . trucks in pur-1 jj I suit. j 41 Further delay Jn the execution of J the government's plan to send forces! ji northward through Nayarit was seen I j in the report that tho railroad over I which forces are being moved had l been out in the state of Jalisco. It1 II v'nQ nnt nvnonlad Mile- i.-.1,1 .1 I I Uw ..v-VVV 1111.3 HUUIll wu uiuic, I . however, than slow up the foderal j movement. Federal Groups Desert. I Reports of defections by federal I; groups at widley separated points,' ffij some of which have been conceded jU by the Mexico City authorities, have been supplemented by claims of Gen. 1 Salvador Alvarado, Sonora agent here, i that many leaders who have been in1 revolt for years have Joined the rebel ll cause. Notable among them was Gene- I vevo do la 0, one of the uncoriquered g Zapatista group. who was said lo ; havo furnish cdlhe escort which cn- ,t abled Gonerul Benjamin Hill to escape V from Mexico City about hto time Gem ft Obregon disappeared from ihe canltail 1 A skirmish occurred at Conlreras, a 1 suburb of Mexico City, while Hill was I oeiug passed through the lines and was 1 followed, it was said, by an attack by de la 0 forces on Tlalpam, another au- I hwrb. The rebels overran the place, according to advices here, looted a I iev' houses and retreated into the hills I about Ajufico, the old volcano that ov- erlooks the capital. I Revolt in Vera Cruz. I A new revolt in southern Vera Cruz also waB mentioned among reports re- I ceived. Rebels there had cut the rall- I road from the north to the Isthmus of I Tohuantepec. 1 No report had been received today I that American warcraft ordered to the I "west coast ports had arrived. Topol- obampo, one of theso ports, already I hRS been occupied by the rebels. As- Burancen by Governor de la Tuerta of Sonora, that caro would bo taken by the rebels to safeguard tho lives I and interests of foreigners, announced yesterday by General Alvarado and or- roneouBly credited to tho Mexican era- bassy, were reiterated today in the copy of a telegram from General Flores to Governor de la Huerta forwarded o General Alvarado. |
