The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-31
THOUSAND FEDERALS AND SEW
EN- HUNDRED REBELS IN
STAND-UP FIGHT.
NO NURSES OR PHYSICIANS
Wounded Allowed to Die or Crawl
Away From the Field of Battle
Rebels Say They Will Not Accept
Peace Unless Daz Resigns.

Ell Paso, Tex, March 31.-Reports
reaching here say that stubborn
and bloody battle is raging at Santa
Barbara, southwest of Chihuahua.
One thousand federals and seven
hundred rebels are engaged in a
stand up battle, fighting with modern
guns. There are no physicians or
trained nurses to aid the injured who
fall and die or crawl away.
Senior Cara, the insurrecto secre-
tary of state here, says that the insur-
rectos will never accept peace terms
that do not include Diaz's resigna-
ton. The peace movement must be
anti-Diaz before all else.
City of Mexico, March Bore.
ports emanating from points in the
United States to the effect that the
Mexican government intends to send
peace commission to treat with a
similar commission representing the
rebels have aroused here a lively
interest and hope that such is the
case, but no government official has
been found who would admit the ar
rangement. The cabinet was recon-
structed in the hope that the dis
affected elements might be placated
and that the government is contem-
plating radical reforms for the same
reason is beyond question. The gov
ernment has gone far in the matter
of making concessions, but the belief
is growing that President Diaz is
not yet willing to recognize Madero
and his followers to the extent that
he shall discuss with them terms
of peace.
Diaz Slow to Farley.
Both foreigners and Mexicans are
inclined to believe that the aged
executive was very slow to parley
with those who have dared to rise
In revolt against his administration.
If any peace negotiations are to be
conducted it is believed here that
the initiative must come from the
rebels, and, according to statements
made in the United States, the op-
posite is the case.
Differences of Opinion.
In this city there are few who
do not hope that the government
and rebels are about to come to
terms, but there are many who be-
lieve that the day of peace is still
far off. 1t is pointed out that the
very fact that the government has
shown a disposition to concede GER
tain things for which the rebels are
fighting has been an encouragement
to them to continue the campaign.
The government insists that the
change in the cabinet and reforms
contemplated have come, not as de-
mands made by armed men, but in
response to a popular move for al
tered conditions on the part of
the public at large.
The revolutionists can not see it
in just that light. They feel that
it is because of their work in the
field and appear to think that re-
bellion will bring them all they are
after, chief of which Is the resig-
nation of the president and another
national election.
Reports from War Center.
Francisco Madero, Sr., has stated
that he hopes to induce his rebel
lious son to agree to terms of peace,
and in this he is seconded by Gus
tavo Madero, the brother, but re-
ports brought from the seat of
war are that Francisco Madero still
insists that there can be no peace
so long as President Diaz remains
at the head of the nation, and it is
Francisco l. Madero, who is leading
the fighting.
Juan Sanchez Azvona, one of the
revolutionary advisers, has pointed
out that the elder Madero is not
exactly the one to determine the
terms of peace or method of arriv-
ing at satisfactory agreement;
that he has taken no active part