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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 56, 27 July 1914, Page 8

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-. <, niu COUNT. <<:.;; mUI.-AND MEX OLE. Till-; l ltkkly tj)l;tj:ji l'clow, there is reprinted a vivid account oi t .n- b.itth oi Tcpic (.Mexico),' taken ;'ro)ii Hie 'Frisco Chronicle: liankiiuj iii-.xt to til- brilliant coup uf Villa at Torri'oii was the battle of Ti-pii', wrick lauLcii lur three day™ until t'ue Federals were utterly routed by the rebel forces under Uenerals B.aiico and BiHuiia. Ci teily disorganised. tli.Federals lied in wild retreat sdutl ... 1 with tue iiope of leaching Guild:; ~j... ; before the main column, which C<neia. Obregon is ;cading on towards the second largest city in Mexico. Tbe capture \-f Tcpic cost the ivheK a greater lo is Iban the Federals, who if they had made a linn stand, it is believed, would have repulsed t'iie as saii'it. The U»s in killed and wounded on both sides amounted to 1UIN) men.

F.XEt ITE FFDEUAL OFFICERS. With lew exceptions the Federal officers captured were exicutcd. The extent inns began with the death oi Colonel iSoto, a rebel commander. In squads of eight and ten the prisonerwere led to the cemetery, and ill this gloomy atmosphere of the city of the dead mot their fate-. The rebel attack on Tcpic was made with fiIMIO men armed with modem rifles, but without a single piece of artillery, which made the assault diilici.lt <it the outset, liy hard lighting, literally hurling theirs,lves at the eitv's frrtinViiti'TN despite hoavv losses, the rebels drove the Federal soldier.--, from Ihei.- gun-. The linal stands by Federals w"iv made in tbe city's '.-trccts but 'were to no purpose. Two machine guns aided the rebels in driving the last Federal from the town. DECISIVE FrCiHTIXf; AT XKHIT. The telling engagement occurred at night after the rebels had apparent!,eeaseil the attack. Flanking the mniii part of the citv. where the Federals had fortified themselves on thre sides, the rebels steadily advanced to the penitentiary, in which were mounted two field pieces. A machine gun sipiad in command of an American named hamper held the attacking force at buy for two hours, but with the wounding of the American, the. Mexicans deserted the place. Lamper, T learned, died of :i\> injuries. It is said that lie was formerly a mining engineer and that he had been with the Federals for several months, receiving live pesos n day for his services.

FLIGHT OF FEDERALS. With the odds against him, Gciiei.il Servin, the Federal commander, -fathered together what remained of his iorce of 3000 men and tut throiHi tlie mountains for the south. L>irrsuin.< him continued General iilaneo, following whose force is General Obrcgon. the rebel advance column, numbcrim- SHOD men. Nearly all of the im of the retreating Federals captured at Han Cavtana, south of Tepie. were executed ' To tlie capture of Tepie h v the rebels T. W. Jones ,a railroad contractor home is in Puehla, owes his escape from death. Jones, who was liberated hv the victorious rebels, took passage from San Mas by the 'l'acilie mail steam.-r .San Juan., after an experience which Tears will never wipe from his memon-. i SUFFERINGS OK .\MFKILAX. For killing a Mexican on the .Marias Island in self defence six weeks a-o Jones was made a prisoner, and sent ""to gaol at Tepie. During the proves* of his trial the news of the. occupation of Vera Cruz reached the citv. and a stron" anti-American sentiment.' as elscwheideveloped there. Jones spent a month in a vile cell in the cuartcl, momentarily expectimthat he would be brought forth f„'r slaughter or stabbed as he slept. The •fliccrs, in passing the dungeon, woul | mock him through the I mis. "saving that he would soon he put out of'his mi". ery. When the rebels made their final assault on the city, .lours feared ilia: tlie Federals, before retreating, would shoot him, hut their liable "ival that they forgot |him. The i"| M .V treated Jones with consideration living him a horse which lie rode.