MEXICAN FIGHTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1929, Page 5

MEXICAN FIGHTING

BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Recd. March 25, 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, Marcji 24. The “New York Times’s” Mexico City correspondent reports that warships, airplanes, artillery, cavalry, infantry and other units are engaged in a. battle at. Mazatian Mexicos, the premier pacific port, which has been going on since three o’clock on Friday afternoon.

This information was rather startling in view of yesterday’s optimistic news from the Mazatian front, and which gave the impression that the battle for possession of the . city was practically out of the question. There are no reports yet concerning the losses on .either side, but that the rebels are. making a determined effort to seize possession of the city in advance of the’ arrival of Federal reinforcements appears certain. For the first time since the outbreak of the revolution, the rebels are undertaking a real offensive, which some here interpret as an entire change of policy, as hitherto the rebels abandoned without offering resistance all cities held by them on the Monterey, Saltillo and Torrecon sectors.

Reports that the American Consul, Mr Blocker, at Mazatian, has been killed in the. Federal-Rebel clash, is discounted here..

Desptaches from Yaqui Valley in Sonora, indicate that the area is being evacuated by. foreigners, and that the rebels have threatened to seize their property.