IN MEXICO.
VILLA'S TROOPS DEFEATED.
AN ATTACK ON CHIHUAHUA.
Mexico City, September 17. General Trevino has reported that a thousand of Villa's troops attacked Chihuahua at 2 o'clock this morning, entering the city.
Two hours; later Trevino's troops defeated the Villistas, killing 650. Trevino was wounded in the shoulder, but nevertheless reviewed his troops on parade to-day. London, September 17. El Paso reports that Villa attacked tbe town of Chihuahua with a force of 600, and was heavily defeated. All the captured Villaites were executed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3048, 19 September 1916, Page 4
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