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...Huertistas advanced almost two-thirds of the way from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. Heavy fighting took place at several points and the rebels succeeded in maintaining a line running roughly from Irolo, northeast of Mexico City, to San Marcos and Puebla, east and southeast of the capital...
...Federal forces engaged the enemy at Irolo without important effect. General Obregon took over supreme command of the Army and bent all his energies in pushing forward to Vera Cruz. The first big clash occurred at San Marcos and resulted in a defeat for the rebels, who were forced to retire. This split the two rebel armies into two corps of about 6,000 men each; the San Marcos corps retiring to Orizaba, while the other of about the same strength held Puebla, the second largest town in possession of the rebels...
...That the immigration stations at New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle be improved...
...together in Washington and decided that the Republican National Convention would meet on June 10, 1924, at Cleveland. The choice of the convention city was made among three contenders, Chicago (the favorite) having dropped out at the request of the Administration, (TIME, Dec. 17). The vote was: Cleveland 39; San Francisco 10; Des Moines...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...