Show VILLA WOULD SHAVE GENERAL CARRANZA SHORN OF HIS WHISKERS FIRST CHIEF LOSE FALSE FRONT SAYS VILLA lays claim to an army of seventeen thousand men and declares that he can easily get ammunition and provisions provision douglas ariz general francisco villa has given out a written statement in which he says you ask me to tell you my strength I 1 will not lie to you tor for I 1 never lie altogether I 1 have armed men who are still toyal to my cause five thousand are with me now throe three thousand are in the garrison at juarez in chihuahua and vicinity and in jiminez to hold back the advance of the Carran the balance ot of the troops a are re scattered as small garrisons in loss less important C towns towns the american government may believe itself very smart but it has not been able to stop me from getting all the ammunition and provisions I 1 want the materials for war have been paid for out of my own money and I 1 have crossed the border under the noses of american soldiers the fact that I 1 am spending my own money to buy ammunition and provisions should satisfy the people of the world that I 1 am standing by my men and that I 1 have no immediate intention of quitting in my fight tor for the liberty of my people should I 1 have carranza in my pow er instead of killing hilling him I 1 would shave him this would do him greater harm because then he would be shorn of that false front which to the ignorant indicates intelligence carranza cannot be president alvaro obregon Obre eon however Is of another type ile he is strong and I 1 admire strong men and he admires me but since he has cast in his lot with carranza I 1 shall continue to fight him until either lie he or I 1 has been swept off of mexican soil were carranza out of 0 the way general obregon and I 1 could soon came come to peace terms and we would work together to build up my country |