A FIERCE BATTLE.
HOSPITALS FULL OF WOUNDED,
Press Association—Electric Teleeraph—Copyright TORREON, Wednesday.
General. Villa, with twelve thousand troops, fought a bloody battle in the neighbourhood of Gome/. Palacio, a village near here.
Volasco, the Federal commander, in an attempt to check Villa's march, left Torreon and. gave battle.
After a tierce engagement, in Avhich there were heavy losses, Velasco retreated, leaving villages afire, after a heavy artillery duel.
The hospitals are full of wounded. Torreon is still holding out.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11937, 26 March 1914, Page 5
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79A FIERCE BATTLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11937, 26 March 1914, Page 5
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