"JUAREZHELL" ONCE MORE

BY NORMAN WALKER.

El Paso, Tex., May 1. - [Special.] - Sherman, or B. L. T., or whoever it was who said "Juarezhell" must have had in mind the political situation across the Rio Grande.

Yesterday everything was as quiet as a Benton Harbor holiday. Tonight the natives are all excited over the possibilities of the [...] the rebels, and reinforcements are being rushed here from Casas Grandes 425 miles southwest.

Tonight the revolution seems to be leading in Chihuahua, with the Carrancistas a poor second. The rebels played their trump card when they forced Col. Augustin Mora to leave Juarez. Mora refused Wednesday to join the rebel movement.

Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar ordered his arrest and would have been able to put it over had he not been called into conference with American military authorities here.

He was told plainly that no firing opposite here would be permitted, and that all troops were ordered under arms to back up the statement.

Following this conference, the Obregon junta announced that the turnover in Juarez would not occur for another week, as Mora would be given a chance to leave, in order to prevent an open revolt and firing.

Give Up Sonora Drive.

Both campaigns against the west coast rebels have been abandoned for the good reason that the Carranza government has its hands full elsewhere.

Gen. Manuel Dieguez, who was at Guadalajara preparing to march against Sonora, has been tracked and is reported to be coming north.

The Sonora campaign, over the mountains from Chihuahua, has been a fizzle, and Col. Fox returned to Juarez late today with 300 troops, all that remained of the column which was to have crossed the mountains.

HOW OBREGON ESCAPED

How President Carranza of Mexico was outwitted by Gen. Alvaro Obregon when the first chief sought to have his ablest military commander arrested on a trumped up charge of treason, so as to eliminate him from the presidential race, and how the general fled from Mexico City in a racing automobile, were incidents disclosed in a communication from Mexico yesterday to Gen. J. A. Ryan, a member of the brokerage firm of Merrill, Lynch & Co.

Gen. Ryan, through his first hand knowledge of conditions on the border and his acquaintance with Gen. Obregon, is constantly in touch with Mexican affairs.

General Outwits Police.

Gen. Obregon was in Tampico conducting his campaign for the presidency, the letter to Gen. Ryan says, when President Carranza ordered him to Mexico City to answer a charge that he had given aid and comfort to a Mexican rebel named Cejudo. He explained the baseless nature of the charge, apparently to Carranza's satisfaction, when he was secretly informed on the evening of April 13 last that Carranza was going to order his arrest.

Plans were quickly made for his escape. Nearly twenty-five friends of Obregon drove up to his home in their automobiles. They entered the house, and almost immediately afterward the entire party, Obregon among them, dressed in a friend's civilian clothes left the house, entered their cars, and started for the central plaza, surrounded and followed by Carranza's secret police in automobiles and on motorcycles.

Breaks Through Cordon.

Arriving at the plaza, the procession weaved its way among the hundreds of cars slowly driving around a square where a band was playing. Some of Obregon's friends alighted, others drove back and forth, one or two reëntered their cars; all mixed up the party's motors until the police utterly lost track of Obregon's machine.

In the confusion the general's chauffeur drove quietly out of the jam and down a dark side street, where a racing car owned by a wealthy Mexican was waiting. Obregon entered this machine and dashed off to the west, until he reached the state of Michoacan, where Gen. Francisco Maycotte revolted against Carranza and offered protection to the fleeing candidate.