Foreign News: Bloodiest Hour

Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history."

Dashing, theatrically handsome, 37-year-old General Juan Andreu Almazan was the hero of a battle that seemed to have definitely broken the backbone of the revolution.

General Escobar chose Jiminez, the flat sandy town that has been his headquarters for the past three weeks, on receiving word from rebel generals in the north...

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