Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — BIG MEXICO BATTLE NEAR [ARTICLE]

BIG MEXICO BATTLE NEAR

Crucial Fight fc.- Control of Mexico Is Imminent-''-* ?;i la Captures Salcillp, Washington,' Jan. 8.-■—Lining up for one of the most sanguinary battles of the Mexican conflict, Villa and Carranza troops were arraying their forces between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. Advices, official and semiofficial, here indicated that the battle may be the final showdown between the two chieftains. Puebla and vicinity • are apparently chosen for the center of. the fray. Carranza’s agents here claim signal victory thus far The reports told of carloads of wounded being taken into Vera Cruz ; * There the scourge, of smallpox is spreading. Added to the claims of Puebla victory was the Carranzistas jubilant announcement of a “disastrous defeat’’ of Villa’s forces at Marte, Coahuila. San Antonio, Jan. B.—Saltillo was captured by General Felipe Angeles’ division of Villa troops, according to dispatches to La Prenza, the Villa organ here, .