Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-14
Marches His Followers 100 Miles, Leaving
 Trail of Burning Bridges Behind
PROTECTS AMERICAN PROsPECToRS
Several Citizens of the United States Leading Insurrecto Bands and Many Americans Enlisting with Rebels Fifteen Americans, Captured by Federals, Believed Have Been Shot -Federals Spurn American Aid.

Nunios. in command here, captured a Mexican named De Reyes last night in Tia Juana and put him in Quartet un- der a charge of fomenting rebellion, recruiting lnsurrectOs and spying upon the federal troops for the benefit of the fnsurrectos. De Reyes is well known along the border.
 American to Have Fair Trial
 Washington. March 13.-R Doran, a citizen of Arizona who is held prisoner by the Mexican federal forces at Her mosillo, is in no danger of violence and is assured fair trial, according to a telegram received today by the state department from American Con- sul Hostetter at Hermosillo.
 Federal Dead Number Thirteen.
 Douglas, Ariz.. March 13.-The bodies of two more federal soldiers were found on the Auga Prieta battlefield today by a rancher. This brings the total fed eral dead to thirteen.
 Colonel Mora of the government troops sa i'd today he would prepare an official report which would show that thirty rebels were killed and only two federals.
 The dead federal soldiers brought into Agua Prieta last night were lying in the bull ring today. The Uniforms had been removed and civilian garh
 
 American Proffers of Aid Spurned.
 Lieutenant Stallman, surgeon of the Third United States cavalry, and Dr. Vaniman of Douglas visited the wound ed today and rendered their profes- sional assistance to Colonel Mora, but the offer was not accepted. The wounded lay in distress on the floor of an adobe house. The Americans offered in vain to supply cots. dress the wounds and put splints on the shattered limbs.
 ous condition and without medical aid may die.
 Taft and Diaz Cooperating.
 New York, March 131The Mexican ambassador here and the Mexican rnin- ister of finance received assurances from Washington tonight which con- vinced them there is sincere co-opera- ton between the administration of President Taft and that of President Diaz.
 Vietorieus Randitti Celebrate.
 San Diego, Cal, March 1s.-Captain Evans, in command on the border of the United States troops, reported this morning that the banditH that have escaped Tecarte indulged in 8. drunken orgy last niea1t, firing their rifles and creating bedlam. The anl1abitants around Tecarte have fled to the Amer ican side of the line.
 Creighton Not Known at Harvard.
 The name of Capt. Oscar G. Creigh- ton, an insurrecto leader, reported in Mexican despatches tonight as being a Harvard graduate, does not appear in any of the several Harvard college and university directories. No person who could be reached at Cambridge tonight was able to recall the name.
 Another American Leader.
 MexicaIi, Mexico, March 1S.-Declar- ing that he would order shot every Mexican soldier captured, Gen. William Stanley, an American with the Mexi- can rebels, started tonight to wage warfare east of here.
 Before leaving he issued a. manifesto in which he accepted the Diaz govern ment's suspension of the constitutional guarantee and in reply declared that he would shoot every Mexica, private or officer, captured.
 A Case of Tit for Tat
 ITO slaughter prisoners of war is against all civilized laws" he said, sbut that is what Diaz's declaration means We have blown up bridges and cut wires when war exigencies warranted If we are to be killed for that, if cap tured, then on our part it is to be tooth for tooth and eye for eya.''
 Stanley's first objective is Algodones He said he would blow up more rail- road tracks and bridges, but he would protect American property and irriga- tion works.