Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — MEXICAN SOLDIERS ARE ADVANCING ON LOWER CALIF. [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN SOLDIERS ARE ADVANCING ON LOWER CALIF.

San Diego, Calif., Aug. 13.—A force of 3,000 soldiers of the Mexican government heavily equipped landed yesterday at El Barril on the Gulf of California, and will march north across the Colorado desert to attack the Cantu forces at Mexicali, according to word received here, tonight by Ives G. Lelevier, Mexican consul in this city.