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Show LEADERS OF VILLA GANG MEET DEATH FOUR BANDIT CHIEFTAINS ARE SHOT DOWN IN BATTLE WITH FEDERAL TROOPS. Lopez's Eand, Credited With Numer-ours Numer-ours Attacks on Peaceful Citizens and With Dynamiting Trains, is Badly Defeated. Juarez, Mexico Colonel Augustin Mora, commander of the Juarez district, dis-trict, announced Friday he had received re-ceived what he considered additional confirmation of reports received from General Fortunato Zuazua that Martin Lopez, Epifanio Holquin, Ramon Vega and Felix Martinez, Villa generals, were killed during the battle of Bou-quilla Bou-quilla del Marquezote, Chihuahua, seventy-five miles south of the border. bor-der. He said this confirmation came in military messages from General Zuazua, sent by runner. No additional details were given in these messages, he said, except that the federal cavalry was pursuing closely the remainder of Lopez band ajid hoped to overtake and capture them. The losses sustained by the bandits was heavy. Martin Lopez Is the most famous revolutionary leader in northern Mexico, Mex-ico, next to Francisco Villa, his chief. Born in San Ysidro, Chihuahua, the scene of many revolutionary battles, Lopez joined Villa's command as a boy when Villa was operating independently inde-pendently in the Sierra Madre mountain moun-tain range of western Chihauhua. Yet a young man, Lopez had gained fame through Mexico for his daring deeds of banditry. He was credited with having originated orig-inated the plan of dynamiting passenger passen-ger trains, executing the federal escorts, es-corts, isolating the passengers and then forcing men, women and children to remove all their clothing, which he carried off to his women followers' in the mountain caches. He was recognized as Villa's best pupil in fearless fighting and often led attacks when Villa was sick or wounded. He was a brother of Pablo Lopez, who was captured by Carranza troops after the Columbus raid and executed at Chihuahua City. " GEORGE D. HERR0N i rsssz h ft, f?T V :- - x Prof. George D. Herron was appointed appoint-ed an American delegate to the proposed pro-posed Princes' Islands conferences with the Russian factions. |
