Rebels Batter Naco Again.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 12, 1913:
Ojeda Gives Champagne Dinner as Shells Burst Over the Town.
    NACO, Arizona, April 11.— Receiving needed artillery in the night, the State troops surrounding Naco, Sonora, took the aggressive in three distinct engagements before daylight to-day. They poured shrapnel into the Mexican border town and incidentally into Naco, Arizona. American residents here hurried from bed and found shelter in the theatre building. Guests of the Hotel Naco abandoned it.
    In the first two battles the State troops were compelled to retreat, but by morning they had gained their former positions in rifle pits within 400 yards of the town. Encouraged by the receipt of artillery, the rebels were brisk in their movements. The Federal garrison was said to be suffering greater loss in killed and wounded than at any other time in the four-day siege.
    Last night Gen. Pedro Ojeda celebrated his sixty-third birthday. Besieged by a seemingly overwhelming enemy, he gave a champagne banquet for his officers and men alike. Powder-stained soldiers, many wounded, drank champagne as shells burst over the town.

    EL PASO, Texas. April 11.— Pancho Villa, who has taken the field in Chihuahua State against the Huerta Government, held up a passenger train east of Chihuahua city yesterday and took 150 bars of silver bullion, valued at $75,000. The hold-up occurred at Santa Ysabel on the Mexico Northwestern Railway.

    MONTEREY, Mexico, April 11.— Passengers arriving here to-day from Matamoras reported that the towns of China and Certuche, in the State of Nuevo Leon, near the Matamoras Railroad, had been taken by rebels commanded by Jesus Carranza. Telegrams received from Cerralva, in the mountains north of the Matamoras line, said a force of rebels on the Nogales branch was threatening that town.
    Arrivals from Bustamente, Lampazos, and Villa Aldama, in Northern Nuevo Leon, said several hundred rebels were operating in the Mamulique Mountains, to the eastward of those cities. Gen. Mier dispatched troops to guard the Matamoras line and to attempt to drive the rebels westward.