Villa in Power.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 90, 7 April 1914, Page 5

Villa in Power.

THE MEXICAN REBELLION, DEPORTATION OF SPANIARDS* i! By EIIOTMO TILIGBAPH—CoPYMGHf | i l)nitbd Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.m.) Mexico City, April G. General Villa ordered six hundred Spaniards to be deported, and issued instructions for a train to be provided. The exodus to Elpaso, Texas, ibegins to-morrow. Their property will be confiscated. A BISHOP HELD FOR RANSOM. THREATS TO CRUCIFY HIM ON GOOD FRIDAY. ! AVENGING BENTON'S DEATH. (Received 11.35 a.m.) Mexico City, April 6. Zapata captured the Bishop of Chalpa. He is holding him a prisoner in the vicinity of Guerero, and is demanding 50,000 pesos as ransom; otherwise, he will crucify the Bishop on Good Friday. At the outcome of the Carranza commission, Major Ferrero has been sentenced to be executed for murdering Mr Benton. Ferrero has been degraded in the Army and imprisoned. It appears that Villa merely imprisoned Benton, and that Ferrero waylaid Benton en route to the prison and shot him aboard a train. INTERVENTION IMMINENT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Mexico City, April 6. Foreigners are pessimistic concerning the situation. It is feared that armed American intervention is imminent. General Villa is occupying Torreon, which is littered with dead and wounded. The hospitals are insufficient. The report of the battle shows that Villa, though a blackguard, is a good leader and a brave fighter.