The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-06
MAoERo cRIrIcIsEs oRozco.
Mistake in Strategy, He Says. to Let
Federals Reach Juarez.


NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-"Juarcz is the
key TO the arch. Ii Juarez falls the Mex
lean administration will fall, Give us
Juarez and we shall have the country in
sixty days"
dcro. brother to Francisco ]. Madero. the
Leader Of tho revolutionary forces in
Mexico, summed up tonight the latest
advccs from the front.
''All the news received today" he con-
tinued both contained in the press dis
patches 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 revolution
aries 10 cut communications"
Senior Madero now estimates the total
federal forces in the state Of Chihuahua
al 1000 and the rebel forces at $500.
Many Federals Desert
THE government he said has sent
eight thousand men into the state. and
half of these have deserted. The federal
troops are consCrlptS. many of them con-
victs fighting against their own hearts
and when they encounter opposition and
are forced 10 give ground. their retreat
pate. desert in body with each check
THE engagements thus far fought have
proved that one insurrecto is worth six
fedora! soldiers in the field. Our men
Some of them have turned thirty without
ever casting vote.
I'm my estimate OF the present situa-
ton, il must not be forgotten that hither-
TO with the Mexican Central railroad In
government 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 that the railroad is blocked the
people say, That must be more than a
nest OF hornets
be incaIculable. Ninety-Hve per cent OF
the nation secretly Is dsaffected. but
fear OF Diaz and his savage reprisals has
kept them silent, Give them the signal
and the whole country VIII burst into
flames. There Will be news tomorrow
OF another state in revolt
Diaz Reign Near End.
"Diaz viii never live 10 see his ar
mics triumphant. II Juarez holds out. II
will be for us only retreat into the
which is friendly TO us and bitterly hos
tile to a pursuing enemy. Even II the
revolution were held TO the north ii would
take years to subdue II with all the
forces the government can command
Senor Madero estimates that the effec-
tive federal army is $4,000 men and that
the lnsurrcctos have l $40 men in the
field and control eight states out OF
twenty-seven.
One more state. he saws. is openly dis
affected and in stlll another something
grave" has happened, news of which the
government has succeeded thus lar In
keeping bottled up. He counts the fol-
lowing states in the insurrecto column;
Chihuahua. Sonora. Coahuila, Durango
Iacetecas, Vera Cruz. Pucbla and Oaxaca
San Luis Potosl is reckoned disaffected
and Senior Madero suspects that more has
been going on in Tamaulipas than has
yet come out.
Thus Is may he seen. according to Ma
dero, that the revolution Is scattered
through three parts of the country. the
northern border states from the Pacific
coast TO Nuevo Leon on the Atlantic the
central states of Zacetecas. Durango and
San Luis Potosi and the southern states
OF Vera Cruz. Puebla and Oaxaca.
The bulk Of the rebel forces arc in the
border states Of Chihuahua and Coahuila
(3500 men) and the states south OF Mex
leo City. where 5000 men are in the
field In short: says Madero the gov :
ernment is surrounded by hostile terri
tory on all sides. and the uprising is
real revolution.