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Show GUAYMAS CAPTURED BY REBEL TROOPS MEXICAN GOVERNMENT NOW IN CONTROL OF ONLY THREE PORTS ON THE PACIFIC. Systematic Suppression of News of Rebel Victories Being Resorted to In Capital, Newspapers Being Threatened With Suspension! Mexico City. Guaymas is reported to liave capitulated to the rebels. The report is denied at the war office, but It is generally credited nevertheless, liecause it has been known for several sev-eral weeks that, the federal garrison at Guaymas was disaffected because cf the irregularity of payments of wages by the government. The capture of Uuaymas will leave the government in control of only three nm-tc; nn the, Pti.ifif I;n7a. cillo, Aeapulco and Salina Cruz. Systematic suppression of news of rebel victories is being resorted to in the capital. The Mexican Herald, Her-ald, the only English newspaper published pub-lished here, is threatened with sus-has sus-has given to federal reverses and the pension because of the prominence it aggressions of the rebels in other directions, di-rections, such as the cutting of railroad rail-road and telegraph lines and the seizure seiz-ure of the oil properties at Tampico End Tuxpam. Rebels are reported to have cut the railroad between San Luis Potosl and Tampico, completely isolating the second and most important gulf port. The northern and southern railroad lines have already been put out of commission. Efforts to organize a general revolutionary revo-lutionary movement in the south are said to have been temporarily blocked by the necessity for harvesting the coffee crop. The Zapata guerilla organization or-ganization In Morelos, Guerrero and Puebla, however, is reported to be gaining strength every day. |