Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — CANTU TROOPS BEGIN FIGHTING [ARTICLE]

CANTU TROOPS BEGIN FIGHTING

Governor’s Forces Seize Mexican Patrol Boat and Slay the Captain. *— CREW KILLED OR PRISONERS Provisional President De La Huerta Sends Peace Envoys to Lower California Rebel—Text of Villa Agreement Is Made Public. 1 . Sun Diego, Cal., Aug. 6.—Hostilities have begun at Ensenada in. the rebellion of Gov. Esteban Gantu against the Mexican central federal governs ment with seizures by Cantu authorities of the Mexican patrol ship Tecute, killing of Capt. Leonardo Zepeda of the Tecatg and ayregt oj slaying of th? m IWording to information* brought to San Diego. Seizure of the Tecate and shooting of her captain took pla££ pight beforj l& st 4 Offer %rrns to Cantu. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. o.—Unconditional surrender was demanded of Gov. Estaban Cantu of the northern district of Lower Califorala by the representatives of Prosivional President de la Huerta, who recently conferred with him at It was announced here at the agency of the de facto Mexican government.

It was said* also that If Cantu Immediately ceased activities against the federal government and retired from the governorship, he would be restored to a colonency In the federal army, a position he formerly held. Huerta Sends Peace Envoys. Mexico City, Aug. fl.—Provisional President de la Huerta has sent a commission to Estaban Cantu, governor of Lower California, In an ef-' fort to dissuade that official from continuing his revolt against the federal government. Hopes are entertained by the provisional president that the conflict can be settled without bloodshed, according to the Universal. Government troops, .which will be sent into Lower California to put down the insurrection led by Esteban Cantu, governor of that state, are being mobilized at Guaymas and Puerta Isabel, in the state of Sonora, and at other ports, Gen. P. Ellas Calles, secretary of war, said. “Cantu has not more than .1,000 men,” he added, “and they are not of the fighting kind. Most of them are saloonkeepers and gamblers.” * Urges Compulsory Service. Compulsory military service la the only way of solving Mexican military problems, the general declared, and he expressed hemself as favoring the establishment of five military zones—the northern, southern, central, Atand Pacific. The text of the agreement to surrender signed by Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, at Sabinas, Coalulla, on July 28. is published in dispatches recdyefl froqi gflp Pedro A Coahyila. The terms are subirtant Tally given to the h?ws dispatches of that day. They provide for Villa’s retirement to private life with a guard of 50 men /of his pwn protection. Jhe remainder of his followers get a year’s pay and , farm land. VIV a himself will live in the hacienda de Canutillo, to the state of Durango. The Villa forces are given as nine generals, thirty-three colonels, twentyfive lieutenant colonels, thirty-three majors, eight-five captains, thirty-four lieutenants, forty-one sublieutenants and 558 noncommissioned officers and privates.