TURBULENT MEXICO.
WAR IN EARNEST,
SOME DEADLY YENGAGEMENTS.
FEDERAL FORCE AMBUSHED.
MEXICO CITY, April 10.
General Williams, leader of a band, of American rebels, attacked a Federal force five miles south of Mexicali. The rebels were defeated, and left 80 dead, Williams being' mortally, wounded by a fragment of shell. The looted stores have been recaptured from the rebels. Madero, at the head of 60,000 men, has started for the Casagrande region, and a battle is expected. The Chamber of Deputies has voted four million dollars to suppress the insurrection. LONDON, April 10. New York advices state that a revolutionary force, composed of eighty Americans and commanded by an American ex-quarter-master, attacked! a position held by five hundred Mexican troops. The attackers were repulsed, losing sixty killed or wounded. On the other hand, ninety Federalist were ambushed and annihilated at Atlixco.
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Northern Advocate, 11 April 1911, Page 5
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