MEXICAN TROUBLES.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 217, 23 September 1916, Page 8

MEXICAN TROUBLES.

TILLA'S KAID ON CHIHUAHUA.

MELODRAMATIC B A NDIT.

[Pbbbs Association.]

.Australian and N.Z. Cable Association . (Received Sept. 22, i1.V.0 P-m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.

General Boll's official report on 'Villa's raid on Chihuahua shows that \ ilia or tho 15ih sent a letter to • General Trevmo stating that he wonln .shake hands with Jinn .Jit Cm Juiahua on the 16th, triid asking him to prepare a suitable reception, as ;he w:<>s hungry. , " . ~ Villa, disguised, made a dramatic •appearanw ub the Governor's Palace •on the 16th. Ho ran on to the VLalcony and ahoated.to the erovvd: "Viva Mexico! lam your brotner; -Mid will give you liberty!" He then disappeared. Ho subsequently .secured possession of the penitentiary, the "Jovernors residence, and tho Federal buildings with a force ot i a. lew hundred, and hald them foi--.■several.hours, dospito the Carranzista i garrison ot 6000. , .. ' Villa liberated 200 prisoners, and .carried away sixteen automobile- loads•of arn\s and ammunition under the ■ c-sebrt of deserting CarranzKstas. lie left the city with an additional ■thousand recruits. He retired leisurely, practically unmolested. General Trevim. and his om^rs' v-eie banqueting when attacked. •General Xievmtf started for_ the .Governor's pa-ace," but tho staff had Offif'iois at Washington consider that the Mexican- American confer- • pnee now sitting cannot ignore the .grave developments.