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FILIBUSTERS IN MEXICO.
HOW WILLIAMS AND HIS MEN
DIED. (Per Independent Service). MEXICO CITY, April 16. The man Williams, an ex-quarter-master-sergeant of the United States Army, has died from a filibustering expedition in Mexico, has died from the wounds he received when his "corps" engaged the Bth Battalion of the Mexican Army. A straggler who has reached the Mexicans from the rebel camp tells a pitiful story of how the surprise by Williams and his eighty-five outlaws came to naught. Advancing two and two in skirmishing order, the filibusters took shelter in a barley field, but the barley was soon trampled flat, and the men were exposed to merciless machine-gun fir« e iH'Nil Outflanked by superior Federal tactics, they fled for better cover. One shell dropped Williams and ended his aspirations to be the commander-in-chief of the rebel forces. His little army was annihilated, no quarter being extended to the wounded.
A message from Agua Prieta says that unless the rebellion soon comes to an end Northern Mexico will be in the throes of a famine which will only be relieved by help from the United States.
Owing to the spirit of unrest no crops have been planted since October.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1911, Page 6
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