THE FIGHTING IN MEXICO.
— « A BATTLE IMMINENT. REVOLUTIONIST CONSPIRACY EXPOSED. TROOPS JOIN INSURGENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Mcxico City, November 22. Thoro has been heavy fighting in Mexico between tho insurgents- and Republicans. President Diaz has assumed command of tho troops. A revolutionist- conspiracy has been exposed. Tho wholesale assassination of Government officers was intended. Tho revolutionary leader, General Francesco Madero, has entered Mexico at tho head of his followers. Troops have been despatched against him, and a battle is imminent. A later report from Acambaro, Mexico, states that a body of 300 men freed all the prisoners in the gaols, and, having armed themselves, seized the country funds and tho Municipal Hall, and then engaged the troops. In tho fight twenty revolutionists were killed and eighty wounded. General Madero is reported to bo at the head of 600 insurgents. Republican troops have been sent northward to meet him, probably near Laredo. I The insurgents have cut the telegraph | wires. ' ' \ ■ Hundreds of troops at Gomez Palachio
have gone over to the. insurgents.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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171THE FIGHTING IN MEXICO. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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