Monday, July 22, 2013

Marching To Save Juarez.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 22, 1913:
Orozco's Column of Federals Said to be Near Chihuahua.
    EL PASO, July 21.— Federal reinforcements for the Juarez garrison are at Moctezuma, 114 miles south of the border, on the Mexican National Railway, according to messages received by Gen. Francisco Castro before the telegraph wire communicating with Chihuahua City was cut to-day.
    It is stated by the Juarez commander that a column headed by Gen. Pascual Orozco is due to reach Chihuahua tomorrow from the south and that a detachment will be sent to reinforce the guard on the work train, moving north from Moctezuma, repairing the track. Several hundred soldiers will be sent to Juarez.
    Mexican rebels of Maximo Castillo's command, who are not affiliated with Federals or Constitutionalists, shot and killed Wong Chow, a Chinese restaurant keeper in the lumber town of Pearson, Chihuahua, Friday, because he refused to pay them 500 pesos. This statement is made by American employes of the Madera Company who reached here from Pearson to-day. After killing the Chinaman the rebels looted the restaurant.
    The Americans said that bandits in the Pearson and Casas Grandes districts were making life intolerable for the Chinese in that region.

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