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Show MEXICAN TROOPS OEFEATIHDIAHS' MEUIDA, Yncatan, Jun !. The government troops hud their first encounter en-counter Wln Ih(, ,nalan n8un;ents near I'ayomn. a short distance from alladolld. according to Informal Ion I received her,.. The result was a victory vic-tory for the federal troops. A reronnoltorlng expedition Pent by Colonel T.ara irorn Dzltas dslmveic'l the rebels entrenched and welt pre- i pared, but after a sharp encounter . hey fled to a mountain The guv j e.-nnunt form feinted retreat and! the Indians returned to their trenches ! They opeimd a fierce tire and the , I troops were forced to seek n better po- ! sit Ion j . Alter more shooting the Insurgents again retreated. letting in the, i trenches pools of bloud. but currying j their wound'-d with them. They fled ; In disorder toward Uayniua and were j pursued by the troops, who succeedc.l in rapturing some of the wounded, i Fenrlng an nmlrtiscade, the recon-nolterlng recon-nolterlng party returned to the main body of troops between Dzitas and lava ma MEXICO CITY, June 9. The seventh sev-enth battalion of Infnntn left here today tor Vera Cruz, en route to the I scene of hostilities in Yucatan. 1 |