Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-03-16
j. s. ARMY To END
MEXICAN REVOLT
Wall of Troops Is to Aid Diaz
Government.
INVASION Is EVEN POSSIBLE
Mobilization of 10000 Men in Texas
Decisive Move to Cut Off
Rebels Source of
Supplies.

Washington A correspondent
who is accompanying President Taft
on his journey to Atlanta, Ca, de
elares in a dispatch received here
.hat the administration has de.
c:ded to no longer hold back its rea-
sons for the sudden assembling of
American troops in Texas along tbs
Mexican border.
The dispatch is dated Charlottes-
vile, Va, through which the presi-
dents train passed
1t read as follows:
"All doubt as to the purpose Of the
government in sending 10000 troops
to the Mexican border has at last been
swept away The United States has
determined that the revolution in the
republic to the south must end.
The American troops have been
sent to form solid military wall along
the Rio Grande to stop flibustering
and to see that there is no further
smuggling Of arms and men across the
international boundary.
TT is believed that with this source
Of contraband supplies cut off the in
surrectionary movement, which has
disturbed conditions generally for
nearly year without accomplishing
anything like the formation of a re-
sponsible independent government,
will speedily come to a close.
President Taft appeared well salts
fed with the situation.
There is a general belief that the
rapid movement Of troops into Texas
and southern California will so speed
lily accomplish its purpose that the net
results in the end will constitute a
valuable lesson in quick mobilization
Of an effective fighting force which will
prove revelation to the country at
large and to the critics of the army in
particular, and justification Of the
automatically worded explanations
that have been given out from official
sources in Washington.
There no longer is reason to doubt
that the sudden move on the part of
the American government was the re-
suit of either unofficial representations
Of foreign governments regarding the
situation in Mexico or the intimation
that several Of the European powers
were sounding each other as to the
desirability of making representations
to the United States at an early date.
"Ar any rate, the matter was put up
to the administration in such a way as
to call for the quickest sort of action.
The necessity for this speed of
mobilization was seized upon by the
war department as a heaven-sent op-
portunity to answer critics, both in
and out of congress, and that interpre-
tation was put upon the movement.
There was little doubt in the minds
of those officials that the true mean
ing of the 'maneuvers soon would be
known and the logical Interpretation
SO quickly put upon the movement of
the troops unquestionably discomfort
ed the administration officials from
President Taft down.
There is no telling at this time how
long the big army sent to the Mexican
frontier will have to remain there. It
will not be withdrawn until the revo-
luton has been crushed out and until
conditions in Mexico are much more
stable than they are believed to be.
THE situation in lower California
Is said to have caused more concern
70 the United States than at any other
point. 1t was reported that the revolu-
tionists were exceptionally strong
there and threatened to set up a gov
eminent Independent of either that of
Dtaz or of the revolutionists to the
east.
"The line between the United States
and lower California is but an imag-
mary one, and a revolutionary govern
ment there would be source of con-
slant worry"