Huerta Troops Desert to Carranza.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 17, 1913:
    MONTEREY, Mexico, March 16.— Four hundred Federal troops in the army of Gen. Cheche Campos, it became known here to-day, refused to obey orders yesterday when commanded to go from Gomez Palacio, on the eastern border of Durango, to Parras, in Coahuila, to oppose the rebel bands in that State. The soldiers fired on their Commander. Two hundred of them have joined the forces of Venustiano Carranza, the rebel Governor of Coahuila.
    Francisco Naranjo, Governor of Morelos and a former Colonel in President Madero's army, was removed from office yesterday, having been charged with incompetence for his inability to control the movements of the Carranzistas. Followers of Gov. Carranza holding the city of Villaldama looted it yesterday.
    Gen. Trucy Aubert, on his march to Lampazos, was opposed by the rebels at Villaldama, fifty-eight miles north of Monterey. A battle ensued and the Carranzistas fled. Gen. Trevino has received instructions to exercise the most rigorous measures in his campaign against the Constitutionalistas. He has refused, however, to follow such instructions and has resigned his position as Governor of the State of Nueva Leon.
    Trains between Monterey and Laredo are now in operation. The people of this city are much wrought up over rumors of the concentration of United States troops with a view to an invasion of the border towns. The Government officials, however, have reiterated the assurance that the United States Government does not contemplate intervention.