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Show NORTHERN MEXICO MAY BE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC Plan to Establish Northern Republic Has Been Seriously Considered by Rebel Leaders. Chihuahua, Mexico. Sentiment is growing among certain rebel leaders that if the attack on Torreon is delayed de-layed much longer, or if the federal army succeeds in holding that city, northern Mexico will detach itself from the rest of the country and become be-come an independent republic. While General Carranza, the civil head of the revolution, and General Villa, the military head, disclaim any intention to be satisfied with anything any-thing less than the overthrow of Huerta, and the success of the constitutionalist con-stitutionalist cause over the entire country, it is known that the plan to establish a northern republic has been seriously considered by them and others. General Villa's delay in the attack on Torreon and reports emanating from Mexico City that the federal garrison has been strengthened to a point where it can put up a formidable formida-ble resistance, have given renewed impetus to the idea of a separation of the north from the south and General Gen-eral Carranza's coming to Chihuahua state from the Pacific coast is looked upon as possibly portending an early adoption of the plan. Many rebel leaders profess to believe be-lieve that whatever the outcome of the present revolution the north and the south will not soon be completely complete-ly amalgamated. The north, they assert, as-sert, already is politically independent independ-ent and has adopted a progressive attitude at-titude wholly at variance to conditions condi-tions in the south, where two factionsthe fac-tionsthe indifferent and the adherents adher-ents of the old Diaz regime predominate. |