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Show REBEL CHIEF Genera Blanquet Put to Death at Beginning of His Revolt. MEXICO CITY; April IT. (Py the Associated Press) General Aurellano Blanqhet, war minister in President Htierta's cabinet, who recently was reported to have landed in the Vera Crui region for tho purpose of starting start-ing a revolution against the Carranza government, was killed yesterday In a fighl near Chavaxtla il!age, according to press reports from Vera Cruz, which quote a report from General Fran' ICQ L. Urquize, chlof of military operations opera-tions in the region of Cordova and ( 'rlzaba. According to telegrams Riven on' by General Prquize, the commander in the region of Chavaxtla, General Guadalupe Guada-lupe Sanchez, met a party of rebels under Blanquet late yesterday afternoon, after-noon, defeating them. The dead body of General Illanquet was found later General Sanchez telegraphed that he was bringing General Blanquet'6 head to Vera Cruz to establish the identification. identi-fication. General Francisco Alvarez was taken tak-en prisoner together with the faml! of Pedro Gavay, one of the most active lieutenants of Felix Diaz Vera Cruz papers have recently hern printing numerous stories regarding General Blanquet B proposed revolt. These stories have been published In the United StAtos, but General Blanquet's claim that he had forty thousand men. with artillery and an airplane and that he was allied with other factlors. has been scouted officially. The band which General Blanquet was leading when he was killed was small and was poorly equipped, it is reported. While only a youth. General Blanquet Blan-quet was a member of the firing squad that put to death Emperor Maximilian at Quretaro. Rising in the government govern-ment service, he became minister of war tinder President Huerta. being the man who personally arrested President Pres-ident Francisco Madera when Huerta seized the reigns of government. It was charged that he was involved In the later assassination of Madero. whi n Huerta fled From Mexico General Gen-eral Blanquet accompanied him. Recent Re-cent reports received here stated that he was operating a motion picture theatre In Brooklyn. N. Y. |