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Show HANGS HUNDRED MNDITPRISONERS; VILLA'S MEN SHOWN NO MERCY AFTER DEFEAT BY MURGUIA'S MUR-GUIA'S FORCES. Four Officers Among Prisoners Hanged to Trees Near the Car-ranza Car-ranza Army Camp Following Stubborn Battle. Juarez, Mexico. One hundred Villa followers were hanged, 200 others killed and wounded and a Quantity ol ammunition and horses captured when fighting between the Villa forces and the command of General Francisco Murguia was resumed at dawn April 20, In a rugged canyon in the Ba-bia-cora district of western Chihuahua, according to an unofficial report re ceived here from General Murguia's base at Basas Grandes. The battle started at 5 o'clock in the morning and continued for two hours when the Villa force, numbering . more than 1,200 was forced to retire toward San Jose de Las Cuevas, fifteen fif-teen miles from San Miguel de Babia-cora, Babia-cora, where the fight occurred on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The government artillery did much of the execution, the report stated, stat-ed, shapnel shells fired into the ranks of the charging Villa cavalry killing and wounding many. The losses on General Murguia's side included fifty killed, three being staff officers;, as many more wounded and a num'ber of prisoners taken and executed by the Villa troops. Among the Villa prisoners hanged to trees near the Carranza army camp were four men who were recognized as Villa officers. The report from Casas Grandes reiterated the official report sent by General Murguia to General Obregon that Villa was in personal per-sonal command of his troops. , |