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Show vilEais defeated in recent battle MEXICAN CHIEF LOSES SIX THOUSAND THOU-SAND MEN IN FIGHT WITH GENERAL OBREGON. Villa Movement on West Coast is Apparently Ap-parently Collapsing and Carran-za's Carran-za's Star Is Again in the Ascendancy. Yashington. Consular dispatches from Mexico reaching, tho state department de-partment on Monday confirmed the Carrauza claims ot a great victory tor General Obrogon over General Villa at Cclaya and told oC the hitler's retreat northward, destroying the railroad as he went. Villa's losses in the six days' fighting ended Saturday were estimated estimat-ed at 6.000 killed and wounded. Fourteen troop trains, carrying tha defeated chieftain and his battered army, arrived at Aguas Callentes, 125 miles north of the battleground around Celaya and Irapuato. iVIth these reports the department gave out a summary of advices from the west coast transmitted by Rear Admiral Howard, saying: "The Villa movement on the west coast is apparently appar-ently collapsing, and indications point to the control of the entire west coast by Carranza in a few weeks." From the border, too, came confirmation confir-mation of the reported withdrawal eouthward ot Villa forces, which have been besieging Matamoras. |