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Show Hq J fli fl 4 4 $ B 4' 4 I I I Mexican Forces Fighting For Oil Fields I FEDERAL II I , BEING BEATEN I CAPim HEARS Sf 1 Carranza Rushes All Avail- able Troops to Help His HRT .General AMERICAN CRUISERS SAILING TO PORTS Hn H . Shipment of Army Transport jU Wagons Passes Over H Texas Border 1 WASHINGTON", April 24. Revolu-.tionary Revolu-.tionary forces under General Anulfo Gomez and Mexican federal troops un der General Murguia are battling for possessing of the Tanipico oil fields, according to dispatches received today by General Salvador Aivarado, representative repre-sentative of the state of Sonora, who Is'now in "Washington. It -was said that all available troops were being rushed from the neighboring neighbor-ing 'states of Nuevo Leon and Tamau-lipas Tamau-lipas to aid Murguia who is reported to be in a dangerous position. Official reports of the activities of Gomez's forces previous had been received re-ceived here. Cruisers Sailing. i Xt j While American cruisers were sail-' ing toward rebel menaced ports in Mexico today there was Jacking any indication of an altered attitude of W (h United States government. Un- mk - j-f .vofficially,.it was declared, any niavb. by HI ' the United States was improbable 1 uriless made by the menacing of Aiherican lives or interests. The dispatch of warcraft to Ma-zatlan, Ma-zatlan, Topolobampo and Frontiern was taken to mean nothing more than a guarantee so far as possible of Americans' safety. At Mazallan lhr number of Americans was reported to be fewer than eighteen and a smaller number at Topolobampo. Join in Movement. The number of states the Sonora representatives here claim have joined m the movement is seven with a steadily growing list ofJbands of fed-! eral troops scattered through the states yet controlled by Carranza. The m-pst recent defection claimed is thai of the federal commander at Linares, Nuevo Leon, on the railroad line be-. be-. tween Monterey and Tamplco. k EAGLE PASS, Tex., April 24. A shipment of army transport wagons, i said to have been purchased from the jf United States government, passed through here today Into Mexico. |