New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-06
"JUAREz KEY TO ARCH"
Madero's Brother Here Says if
City Falls So Will Olaz.
CALLS REVOLT REAL WAR
Encouraged by Latest News, He
Declares Mexico Will Soon
Burst Into Flame"

"Juarez 10 the key to the arch. If Juarez
falls the Mexican administration will fall.
Give US Juarez and we shall have the coun-
try in sixty days"
This was the way that Gustavo a. Ma
dero. brother OF Francisco l. Madero. lead
er of the revolutionary forces In Mexico.
summed up lasts night the latest advices
from the front. "All the news received To-
day." he continued, both that contained
In the press dispatches and in our private
advices, We construe as highly favorable
TO our cause. but IL seems TO US an error In
strategy that the federal forces were al
lowed 10 advance by rail on Juarez when
II was in the power of the rsvolutionaries
TO cut communications
Senior Madero now estimates the total
federal forces in the State OF Chihuahua
at 400 and the rebel forces az 2.5oc. the
government" he said, has sent 5000 men
into the state, and half Of these have &C.
serted. The federal troops are conscripts.
many Of them convicts. fighting against
their own hearts, and when they encounter
opposition and are forced TO give ground
their withdrawal does not constitute re-
treat; Il becomes a dispersal. They VANISH
dissipate, desert in body at each cheek
The engagements thus far fought nave
proved that one insurrecto is worth six fed
eral soldiers in the field. Our men are
Young men, fighting for their ideals. Some
NJ them have turned thirty without ever
casting vote.
"More Than Hornets Nest
"Ip any estimate Of the present situa-
ton II must not be forgotten that hitherto,
with the Mexican Central Railroad in gov
eminent control and the news under rigid
censorship. IL has been possible 10 keep up
an appearance Of tranquility in the north
for the rest of the country. But now tnat
the railroad is blocked people say, That
must be more than a nest OF hornets. II
.Juarez fails, the moral effect will be In
calculable Ninety-fve per cent OF the ma
ton is secretly disafected now. but fear OF
Diaz end his savage reprisals has kept
them under. Give them the signal and the
whole country will burst into flame. There
will be news tomorrow OF another state In
revolt
Eyes, az your Mr.. James A. Garfield said
Yesterday az Toledo. this is real war. Diaz
will never live to sec his armies triuH-
phant. II Juarez holds out, II will be for US
only retreat into the mountains-iato
country every inch Of which is friendly to
US and bitterly hostile TO pursuing
enemy. Even If the revolution were held TO
the north it would take years 10 subdue
II with all the forces the government can
command"
Senior Madero estimates that the effective
federal army Is 1900 men, and that the in
surrents have 1850 men In the field and
control eight states out of twenty-seven,
while one more is openly disafrected, and
in still another something grave" has hap
pened. news of which the government has
succeeded thus far in keeping bottled
Many States in Revolt.
He counts the following states in the
jnsurgent column: Chihuahua, Sonora
Coahulla Durango, Zacatccas. Vera Cruz
Puebla and OaXaca san Luis Potosl is
reckoned disaffected. and II Is suspected
that more has been going on In Tamaulipas
than has yet come out.
Thus it may be seen that the revolution
is scattered through three parts of the
countrywide northern border states from
the Pacific Coast to Nueya Leon on the
Atlantic, the central states Of Zacatecas.
Durango and San Luis Potosi and the
southern states of Vera Cruz, Puebla and
Oaxaca The bulk OF the rebel forces is
in the border states OF Chihuahua and
C'oahuila and The states south Of Mexico
City. where five thousand men are in the
field In short, the government Is sur
rounded by hostile territory on all sides.
1t IS. says Madero, a real revolution.