The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-23
INSURRECIOS
 ARE HOPEFUL
LEADERS BELIEVE MEXICO WlL L AccEDE TO LIBERAL PEACE
 TERMS.
Expect Proposal Which Will Result in Armed Truce and Eventual ly End the Revolution in
 Mexico.

1 El PaSo, Tex, March 22.-Notwith- standing the reports from Mexico City to the contrary, 1t is the view of in- surrecto leaders here that Senor IL mantours conferences with President Diaz are designed to have important results looking toward peace in Mex ico They assert that Senor Liman- tour has dad an object in eoncealing his mission to Mexico and that .n reality great political changes are in formation under terms partly agree able to the insurrectos. What the in surrectos fear Is that the reforms will be only partial. yet enough to induce many hundreds now in revolt to lay down their arms without achieving a complete success and without the re- tirement of Diaz.
 A message received today is said to be confirmatory of previous tele- gram from Gustavo A. Madero. the financial agent in New York, that "Limantor had promised an entire Change of politics in Mexico"
 We now believe Limantour all along has had plans which he was unable to divulge and which he at tempted to conceal by a rather un- tactful and antagonistc attitude to- ward us" said Senor Garza, the in surrecto secretary of state.
 We think he will offer a proposal by which he hopes to end the war. Our demands for the retirement of Diaz and tha maintenance of our arms until peace Is assured are the stum- bling blocks on which We are unwill- ing to yield. Without an armed truce, it is folly to talk of peace"
 Meantime conditions in the war af- flicted parts of Northern Mexico are rapidly growing worse. From north of Chihuahua city, 225 miles to the border, and westward into Sonora state, the insurrectos are surrounding tle towns with view of inducing non -combatants to join their ranks and to keep supplies from being taken from the country. Refugees who are reaching the border declare many non -combatants are forcing starvation. An American connected with mine near Casas Grandes, said:
 Tn a few weeks, instead Of send ing troops into Mexico, the United States probably will have to send re lief trains. The position of non-com- batants is rapidly becoming like that of the 'reconcentradoes' in the Cuban ansurrection. 2
 In the last week Francisco I. Made TO, the revolutionary president. is said to have increased his force from 1000 to 1.500 men, all well supplied with ammunition. He is said to be operat- ing to prevent General Rabago from relieving the federal soldiers who are besieged at Casas Grandes
 Brig. Gen. Anson Mills, the Amer ican representative on the Texas Mexican boundary commission. is ex- pected to arrive here Friday to con- fer wsth Senor Beltran y Puga. They will endeavor to determine whether Edward Blatt. of Pittsburg, and Law Irence Converse, of GIendorf, Cal, now Iprisoners at Juarez, were taken while On American soil.
 Insurrecto sympathizers in Fl Paso today made a demonstration on the river front. Captain Felipe Ceyudo, oi General Navarnos staff at Juarez ventured on the American side in uni form. A crowd attacked him and tle United States troops escorted him to lthe middle of the bridge on his way home.
 Armed Truce Necessary