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While a handful of Mexican bandits were kidnaping the retired Long Island butcher, Joseph Rosenthal (see above), over 3,000 Mexican Yaqui Indians were doing their best to kidnap that doughty one-armed warrior, General Alvarp Obregon, onetime (1920-24) President of Mexico...
Near Vicam, Sonora, the Yaqui, 2,000 strong, besieged the train at 4 a. m. with many a war-whoop. Leaping pajama-clad from his berth, General Obregon personally directed and encouraged his soldiers as they sniped at the Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...
...other such procedure is over. We, as American citizens, demand of our Government that this action be taken forthwith. Although our Government has for years emphatically refused to recognize the Soviet regime of Russia, it has continued to countenance, aid and comfort the Bolshevist forces of Carranza, Obregon and Calles...
Married. Angela Elvira Machado, daughter of President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba, to Jose Emilio Obregon y Blanco; at Havana...
...reason is this: Recently Colonel Manuel Demetrio Torres, known as Chaparreras, was taken by U. S. officials in Laredo, Tex., and transferred across the Rio Grande to the Mexican authorities. He had fought with the Huertistas against Obregon and Calles. He was handed over to the Mexican Government, by order of the U. S. Department of Labor through its immigration officials, because it was alleged he was illegally resident in the U. S. Before he was handed over, the Mexican Consul at Laredo had given assurances that he would not be treated as a political prisoner. The immigration authorities also...