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Show FORCES ADVANCE Ofl MBDCO CITY INSURGENTS ADVANCING FROM JALAPA WILL BE JOINED BY MANY OTHERS Cbregon Loyalists Suffer Another Defeat in Skermish Around Nayarit; Two Generals Killed Vera Cruz, Insurgent rroops have left Vera Cruz under orders for nn advance toward Mexico City. At various points along the Inter-Oceanic railway they will be joined by other contingents and the united forces will then proceed toward the capital, advancing ad-vancing In two directions. It is estimated es-timated that about 10,000 troops are available for this movement. General Berlanga an Colonel Mayer, May-er, Obregon officers who were reported report-ed to have been executed after the capture of Jalapa by the insurgents, were spared. Colonel Mayer was one of 2O0 prisoners taken in the fighting 1 who were brought here Monday night. The steamer I'latanero Alegria is carrying to New Orleans Teordoro Tresieres and Ehrlque Soldenar, who are to go to New York as confidential agents of the provisional government. A detachment of Obregon troops was reported defeated in a skirmish in Nayarit territory. Generals Ortega Or-tega and Maya, loyalists, were killed. General Estrade who also is advancing ad-vancing toward Mexico City from Guadalajara has informed the insurgent insur-gent chieftains here that an attempt by General Ferreira to land federal reinforcements from Sinaloa and Sonora !it Manzanillo was frustrated by the rebels. |