FEDERAL TROOPS IN RETREAT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 7

FEDERAL TROOPS IN RETREAT.

RUTHLESS MARCH OF MEXICAN REBELS, CAPTIVES ( SUMMARILY SHOft By Tdegrftph-Press Association—CopyrJKM New York, November 26, Reports from El Paso, ,in Texas, state that t.ho Mexican Federals have retreated, Many of them fell into the hands of the rebels, and were executed without the semblance of a trial. Only ' two of the officers who have been captured since the Constitutionalists began fighting have been spared. One was the soil of n rebel officer, who pleaded with the rebel General to spare the lad's life, and the other was proved to have been forcibly pressed into tlio Federal service.

A NICARAGUA!* DICTATOR. (Ree, November 26, 11.10 p.m.) Washington, November 20. The Stato Department has ordored the arrest of Xelaya, cx-Dietatov of Nicaragua, whenever he may bo found in American territory, on a charge of the assassination of two Nicaraguans. The order was issued as the result of the Nicaraguan Government's representations. ONE VIEW OF THE TROUBIE, RIVALRY OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. New York, November 25.' Mr. Wilson, late American Ambassador to Mexico (who was invited to resign in consequence of » difference with the State Department at Washington over the Mexican trouble), declared, at a public lecture at Washington, that the whole Mexican business was due to rivalry between the American and British oil companies.