GENERAL VILLA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 8

GENERAL VILLA.

MEXICAN OUTLAW DESERTED. . EL PASO, December 18. General Francisco Villa has decided to quit, Mexico .and. seek .asylum in ,the United States, it was reported here.todav. Confirmation of this report is that Villa's own officers have repudiated him and agreed. to accept the, amnesty of Carranza. • ■ ' '

Miguel Diaz Lombardo, ex-Minister of. Foreign Affairs, to Villa, whose official connection with Villa was reported as at an end two days, ago,, admitted to-night that Villa had been repudiated, but said he did not. believe Villa would seek' asylum in the Unitecl States. ;. .. ," . . ' :: i .-.?.-'.♦ ■ ■ American military officers to-night ad mitted that. Andreas Garcia, local Carranza Consul, had asked permission foi officers of the. Villa garrison-m fuara to,cross to El Paso to confer, with hini. This follows admissions during the-day bv Villa officers that they have been released from allegiance, to General Villa and told that -■" you must shift for yourselves." . - . - It is reported in- Carranza circles.that onlv some formalities have td he arranged between Consul' Garcia and officers of the Villa garrison m Juarez preliminary to the "turnover of the garrison to Carranza. .-•.'. With - Villa's Juarez wife .and ■ her effects already- in El Paso .and the wit© and effects of Colonel Hipohto Villa also here, the report is current that the General himself is comings and that he will be joined here by his brother. Following his * repudiation by his chiefs Villa is quoted as haying addressed them in the following language in Chihuahua city last night: "The fight is lost. I am surrounded, by traitors. -1-sent, some men down to Santa Rosalia and they did not.fight. I am through.- I shall go to Juarez and there make, arrangements to withdraw from Mexico, making the declaration that I will involve myself no more in. Mexican revolutionary warfare;''or politics. I am sending my to the border to take herself and her family to El Paso. I .have told my brother to send his family to El Paso. He will wait for me in. Juarez., when we botlr shall' withdraw from Mexico toccther. . . . - .„ " If the United States authorities wili not allow me to cross the river into their territory, I shall make arrangements to take myself to Europe. Reoorts are current here that, .representatives of the Felix Diaz faction; in Mexico had made a formal offer to Villa in a movement to join Diaz's revolutionary forces ' reported gathering m Oaxaca. said to be preliminary to . a junction with Zanata-troops moving towards that portion of the .southern coast. - . ...