Rebels Attack Guaymas.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 29, 1913:
Mexican Insurgents Pursue Many Bands of Ojeda's Federals.
    NOGALES, Arizona, June 28.— The Constitutionalistas began an attack on Guaymas this morning, according to a dispatch which reached Nogales late today. Didier Masson, the French aviator associated with the insurgents, was reported to have made a flight over Guaymas and its harbor, returning with the information that Mexican Federal officials and sympathizers were being taken aboard the gunboats Guerrero, Morelos, and Martinez. Gens. Ojeda and Barron, the Federal leaders, were believed to be fleeing toward Bacatete. Gen. Obregon's rebels pursued many bands of retreating Federals capturing some in a demoralized condition.

    DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 28.— The hope of the Mexican Constitutionalistas of entering Guaymas without a struggle ended to-day, when the Federal garrison of 700 at that place refused to surrender. The rebels, numbering 2,000 and headed by Gen. Obregon, immediately began an attack. This information was received at The Constitutionalist junta here, with the prediction that the rebels soon would be in command of Guaymas.

    SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 28.— With accommodations for fifty passengers, the Mexican steamer Benito Juarez arrived here to-day from Mazatlan and Guaymas, Mexico, with 115 refugees. Smallpox was raging in Guaymas, the price of food was prohibitive, and the Mexican troops made life unbearable for Americans, the refugees assert.
    Among the Americans on the steamer were H. H. Haas and Mrs. Haas of Guaymas. Mr. Haas is the agent of an express company. He said the company still was attempting to do business, but owing to the hostility of the Mexican populace he deemed it best to bring his wife to the United States.
    Five members of a party of thirty-five Americans who walked 250 miles to Guaymas through the war zone arrived on the steamer. They asserted they were escorted into Guaymas by troops, robbed of all their money, and left to shift for themselves. According to their count, there were 3,500 rebels in the territory through which they passed.
    Thirteen women and children of the Yberri family of Guaymas, said to be the wealthiest on the West Mexican Coast, arrived for an indefinite stay in the United States. They said the spread of the smallpox epidemic caused them to leave their home.

    MEXICO CITY, June 28.— Col. Venustiano Carranza, rebel Governor of Coahuila, proposes as a basis of peace between his followers and those of the Administration that the permanent Cabinet Ministers as well as a candidate for the Presidency, be named at a convention of representatives of all the political parties in combination with rebel delegates.
    It is suggested that President Huerta name immediately a Presidential candidate and a Minister for Foreign Affairs and then resign office, after which the choice of the convention would succeed constitutionally to the Provisional Presidency.