Gomez Leads 7,000 Against Castro.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 6, 1913:
Troops Under the Ex-President's Command Are Said to be 12,000.
DIVIDED INTO THREE ARMIES
One Marching on Barquisimeto, Another on Maracaibo, a Third Assembling.
    CARACAS, Aug. 5.— An army of 7,000 men, comprising three brigades divided into seven regiments of infantry and one of artillery, left Caracas to-day to operate against the followers of ex-President Castro. The brigade commanders are Gen. Emilio Fernandez, Gen. David Gimon, and Gen. Torellas Urquiolo. Gen. Felix Galavis has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Army. A Medical Corps, with Sisters of Charity acting as nurses, accompanied the Government's fighting forces.
    President Gomez will leave the capital to-morrow and lead the army to Maracay, on the railroad fifty miles southwest of Caracas. During his absence Dr. José Gil Fortoul, President of the Federal Council, will act as Chief Executive of the republic.
    Telegraphic communication between Caracas and Maracaibo is interrupted.

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug. 5— Ex-President Castro has under his command, according to the latest advices received here, about 12,000 men. He is reported to have been received enthusiastically by the people when he landed at Coro, in the State of Falcon. He is said to be marching against Barquisimeto, the capital of the State of Lara, at the head of a force of 4,000 men.
    Two of Castro's adherents, Gen. Rosario Gonzales and Gen. Penuela, who crossed into Venezuelan territory from the Colombian frontier with 3,000 followers, are reported to be augmenting their army as they proceed through the inland towns.
    Gens. Navas and Araujo, two of Castro's lieutenants operating in the State of Zulla, are leading 2,500 men against Maracaibo, the capital of the State and the principal seaport of Venezuela.

    WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao, Aug. 5.— Open communication between Venezuelan revolutionists in Curaçao and Venezuela has been prohibited by the Government authorities of Curaçao on the protest of the Venezuelan Consul here.

    BERLIN, Aug. 5.— Cipriano Castro prepared his invasion of Venezuela while he was staying in Dresden, where he lived for some time quietly with a German friend, Hermann Wolfram. Castro arrived in Dresden on March 26, soon after reaching Hamburg from the United States. A little while afterward he succeeded, by making a false start, in convincing inquirers that he had gone to Paris and eventually to the Canary Islands. Instead of doing this, however, he remained the guest of Wolfram, and while in his house drafted the proclamation to the Venezuelan people, which he issued at Coro on July 27. Castro left Dresden early in July for Venezuela.