Rebels Strong In Coahuila.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 23, 1913:
Carranza's Forces Operating Against Six Cities Held by Federals.
    CONSTITUTIONALIST FIELD HEADQUARTERS, COAHUILA, Mexico, July 20. (via Eagle Pass, Texas, July 22.)— Constitutionalists are operating from this point against the following cities held by Federals in Northern Mexico: Torreon, Saltillo, Monterey, Lampazos, Monclova, and Nuevo Laredo. They say they have Gen. Maas surrounded at Monclova and the Federal detachments in the other cities cut off so that they cannot unite with each other.
    A small detachment of Federals from Monclova, out on a scouting-trip, are reported to have killed their officers, left their bodies by the roadside, and dispersed to the hills.
    Federals are forcing many residents of Monclova to join the army under stress of punishment for refusal, it is charged. The Constitutionalist outposts are a mile from Monclova, which, it is asserted, is shut off from supplies.
    Gov. Carranza, the Constitutionalist leader, has gone to Torreon, around which the Constitutionalists say they have 8,000 or 10,000 men.