MEXICAN REBELLION

Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6

MEXICAN REBELLION

FIERCE fighting proceeding BATTLE AT MAZATLAH Prsss Association—By Telegraph -Copyright NEW YORK, March 21. Tim Mexico City correspondent of the New York ‘ Times ’ states that warships, aeroplanes, artillery, cavalry, infantry and other units are engaged in a battle at iUazatlan, -Mexico’s premier Pacific port. The battle has been going on since o’clock mi Friday aitornoon. This information was rather startling, in view of yesterday’s optimistic news from the Mnzatlan front, which gave the impression that a battle lor the possession of the city was practically out of the rinestinn. There are no reports yet concerning the losses on either side, but that Ihe rebels are making a determined effort to seize possession of the city in advance of the arrival of tho Federal reinforcements appears certain. For the, first time since the outbreak of the revolution the rebels are undertaking a real offensive, which some people hero interpret as an entire change of policy, as hitherto the rebels abandoned without offering resistance all the cities held by them in the Monterey, Saltillo, and Torrcon sectors. Reports that the American Consul (Mr Blocker) at Mazailan had been killed in a Federal-rebel dash arc <1 iscounted here. Despatches from Yarpii Valley, in Sonora, indicate that the area is being evacuated by foreigners, and that the rebels have .threatened to seize their property.—Australian Press Associa-tion-United Service.