Word: torreon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War, sat in the public dining room of a hotel at Torreon, Mexico, last week, methodically chewing. Generals and businessmen leaned over the table, talking excitedly. General Calles, scowling, continued...
...chief general of the rebel forces, Gonzalo Escobar, had just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...
Courtly Prelude. With General Calles at Torreon in the north, rebel commanders made a flank attack around the western wing of the federals and struck at Mazatlan, the chief Pacific port of Mexico, northwest of the capital. The leaders of this thrust were General Ramon ("Sacristan"*) Iturbe and heavy-jowled Francisco Manzo. Advancing from the north and obscurity they took their place in the news. Halting the army of about 5,000 men, "Sacristan" Iturbe entered a telephone booth and called General Jaime Carillo, defender of the seaport...
Calles after Escobar. "I give the revolution ten or 15 days more to live," said President Portes Gil in Mexico City. "Our troops will capture Torreon, and after that it will be just a chase...
Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...