General Cedillo Named As!
A "Revolter"
Mexico City, May 21.
The Government today officially et Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, war lord of San Luis Potosi, a "revolter" as Government troops continued to battle bandits near Ciudad Fernandez and placed Army detachments throughout the state to disarm followers of Gen. Cedillo.
An Army captain and two soldiers were reported to have been killed while fighting the Cedillo forces last night, Fifteen or seventeen bandits were said to have been killed in the clash which followed cutting' of the railway line on the Rio Verde branch of the Tampico-San Luis Potosi line. Telephone and telegraph lines also were severed.
Heavy fighting also was reported near Rio Verde where Army planes were patrolling the railway in an effort to prevent further severance of communications. The planes yesterday machine-gunned the Cedillo forces near Ciudad Fernandez while Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, President, directed military operations from San Luis Potosi—United Press.
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