The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-09
ARMY MANEUVERS ARE UNDERSTOOD Mexico Does Not Doubt
 Uncle Sam ENRIQUE CREEL TALKS Mexican Minister of Foreign Rela- tions Says Mobilization of Uni ted States Troops Is Only
 an Army Drill

Mexico City March S.-The Mexican government has no reason to doubt the word of the state department at Washing ton that the movement of the 2OOOO Amer ican soldiers to the border is for nothing more than military maneuvers designed as instruction for senior officers.
 I've do not believe that in the situation as it is at present there is any occasion for intervention by the United States or any other power. No American property has been damaged by either side and so far as I know, no complaint has been made by any American"
 Enrique c. Creel, minister of foreign relations, commented as above last night upon the dispatch from Washington re- garding the mobilizing of 2O,OOO troops In the vicinity of the international border. Nothing in the events which have trans pired in Mexico up to the present time, in the opinion of Minister Greet. would justify intervention. No representations. he said, have been made to the Mexican government by the United States, Greaf Britain or any other nation that foreign CTS had sustained any loss or had been placed in jeopardy to an extent that would even suggest the necessity for out side interference.
 ."The situation in the north, and for that matter throughout the republic, is entire ly satisfactory" said MT. Greet. News has just reached us that Madero has prac- tically exhausted his money resources, He has just made an attempt to raise $2,- OOO. 600 guaranteeing the debt by bond issue and has failed. Since the activity of the United States in hastening troops along the border to preserve the neu- trality laws the support which the rebels have had in the United States has fallen away. The efforts of sympathizers tc raise money by holding kermesses and other entertainments have proven unsuc- cessful In many cases they have moi paid expenses We have information tha many of his followers have not been paid for three weeks and are deserting
 "The rupture between Madero and Flores Maygon has spread dissatisfaction fin the ranks of the rebels. Flores May. gon, perhaps the more dangerous of ths l two, continues to secure the publication of his attacks upon Madero calling hin various names, among them traitor ant | thief and Madero also persists in hls attacks upon Flores Maygon, all O which Is operating to weaken the rebe l cause"
 Mr. Greet ridculed the threat mad' | by the revolutionists that they will starv' I the people of Chihuahua into submission l Even with the railroad out of commis 1 sion, he said, 1t will still be possible t bring supplies from Fl Paso by wagons. You must remember" he said, ''tha l we lived in Chihuahua 200 years befor' the railroads were built, and we neve | starved.
 And we had some fighting, too," h. added with a smile.
 Mr Cree is a native of Chihuahua ant | was for many years governor of tn | state. He is perhaps more familiar witt
 conditions there than any of the men Il public life in the republic.
 we have scarcely touched our re sources as yet" he said.
 l "N Ith the money, guns and men at ou command we can easily put in the fiel, 50,000 men,"
 And do you doubt" he added, "tha l we can raise an army of this size whel
 we begin to offer B a day for solders?"
 MT. Greet commented upon the state ment contained in the dispatch that Col Porfiro Diaz, Jr., would meet MT. Ii mantour in New York, saying:
 "Of course that is untrue, since Colone Diaz is now here in Mexico"