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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Maytorena In response to orders from Provisional President Guitterez has ordered a cessation of firing at Naco. The United States troops at Naco now number 5,000 and are ready to take retaliatory action if necessary. Administration officials at Washington have received disquieting official dispatches from Mexico City to the effect that between 100 and 150 -Mexicans, many of them once prominent officially, have been secretly executed in Mexico City within the last few days. In a three hour battle Gen. Luis Caballero and a large force of Carranzu soldiers defeated the Villa, army advancing on Tam-pico, taking fifteen prisoners, much provender and war material, and causing many losses In dead ahd wounded. The advancing army was In command of Gen. Alberto Carrera-Torres. Guadalajara, the second largest city in Mexico, has been captured ly Villas troops, according to an official report given out by the Villa consular agent at El Paso. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador, advised the state department at Washington that his government was willing to forego the exercise of the right of search of vessels carrying cargo from American ports If the ship masters would confer with the British consuls at the ports of departure and satisfy them as to the neutral character of their cargoes. The department received a note from the French government stating France, was prepared to give the same assurances as had been given by the British government in regard to the noucontraband character of American cotton. The stringent Allison liquor law. prohibiting shipment of liquor into "dry" territory in Texas, was invalidated by a decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals, which Judge Prendergast, who presided, said "wiped it from the statute books." The decision declared any person or agent might carry or ship liquor into "dry" territory provided it was not the Intention to use the liquor for unlawful purposes or for resale In "dry" area. The Allison law forbade newspapers to carry llqhor advertisements in prohibition territory. Commander Yates Stirling, in charge of the Atlantic submarine tlotllla, declared during the course of his testimony before the naval affairs committee that the navy department has" so neglected the submarines of the navy that today only one of them Is fit for use. He further asserted that there are practically no tenders for them. In addition to this, the entire navy is handicapped by a lack of scout cruisers. Brig.-Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, has been ordered by the war department to proceed to Naco, Ariz., to use his personal -iiiUueucu with Mexican leaders to cease hostilities. The sldp purchase bill urged by President Wilson was reixirted favorably to the senate after several amendments proposed by iniuorlty members had been defeated In committee. President Wilson and his cabinet have decided to send American warships to the Panama canal zone to guard against violations of neutrality there ay belligerent ships. A battle- between Carranza and Villa troops took place southeast of Torreon. Lach army numbered 5.000 men. Gen. Villa was in personal command of his troops. The American harvests for 1014 are computed at an aggregate value of ,300,000,000.
