TURBULENT MEXICO.
VILLA'S REVENGE.' ' MASSACRE AXD LOOT. By Cable~Press Association—Copyright, Washington, Jan. 13. In connection with the shooting of Americans in Mexico, the outrage is regarded as a reprisal by Villa's partisans in revenge for the United States recognising Carvanza as President, thereby making him all-powerful. The British Viee-Consul at El Paso obtained a statement that Villa parsonally led the massacre party. An eyewitness, who escaped, says that a party of twenty-eight stopped and boarded a train, lined up the passengers on the track-, and shot down IS, including a Canadian. They looted the train of £14,000. Other sources state that after Villa's defeat in the late revolution hV threatened Americans, and then took refuge in the Sierra Madre Mountains, awaiting an opportunity to earty out his threat.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1916, Page 6
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128TURBULENT MEXICO. Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1916, Page 6
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