Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-02-06
Brother of Provisional President
Declares Border Town Is Key
to Situation in the Turbulent
Mexican Republic,
ONE INSURRECT0-W0R
SIX GOVERNMENT TROOPS
Points Out That Diaz Soldiers
Are. Forced Into Army While
Rebels Are Virile Young
Youths Fighting for Principle.


tBy Morning journal specIai Leased Wirel
New York, Feb 5.-"Juarez is the
key TO the arch If Juarez falls, the
Mexican administration will fall. Give
us Juarez and we shall lave the
country in sixty days.
This was the way that Gustavo A..
Madero, brother to Francisco |. Ma
dero, leader of the revolutionary
forces i'm Mexico summed up tonight
the latest advices from the front.
IAN the news received today he
continued, "both that contained in the
press dispatches and in our private
advices, we construe as highly favor
able to our cause but it seems to us
an error in strategy that the federal
forces were allowed to advance by
rail on Juarez when II was in power
of the revolutionists to cut commui-
cations"
Senior Madero now estimates the
total federal forces In the state OF
Chihuahua at 1000 and the rebel
forces at $500.
'The government he said, has
sent 5000 men into the state and haif
of these have deserted. The federal
troeps psa conscripts. many of them
convicts fighting against their own
hearts and when they encounter OPP
position and are forced TO give
ground, their withdrawal does not
constitute q retreat. II becomes a dis
persal. They vanish, dissipate, desert
in a body at each check.
'The engagements thus far fought
have proved that one insurrecto is
worth six federal soldiers in the
field. Our men are young men
fighting for their ideals. Some OF
of them have turned thirty without
casting a vote.
"In my estimate of the present sit
uation, II must not be forgotten that
hitherto with the Mexican Central
railroad in government control and
under rigid censorship, IL has been
possible to keen 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.
"If Juarez falls. the moral effect
will be incalculable Ninety-five per
cent oil the nation secretly is dsar-
fected, but fear of Dlaz and his saw
age reprisals has kept them under
cover. Give them the signal and the
whole country will burst into flame
There will be news tomorrow of AN
other state In revolt.
"Dlaz win never live to see his ar
mics triumphant. If Juarez holds out,
Ii will be for US only a retreat into
the mountains, into country every
inch of which Is friendly to us ana
bitterly hostile to pursuing enemy.
Even IL the revolution were held TO
the north 1t would take years to sub
due II with all the forces the govern
ment can command"
Senior Madero estimates that the
effective federal army is $4,000 men
and that the insurrectos have II, 500
men in the field and control eight
states out of twenty-seven.
One more state, he says, is openly
disaffected and In still another some
thing grave" has happened, news OF
which the government has succeeded
thus far in keeping bottled up He
counts the following states in the in
surrecto column:
Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila. Du-
range, Zacatecas, Vera Cruz, Puebla
and Oaxala.
San Luis Portosi Is reckoned dis
affected, and 1t seems disaffected and
Senior Madero suspects that more has
been going on in Tamalauipas than
has yet come out.
Thus II may be seen, according to
Madero, that the revolution is scat
tered through three parts of the
country-the northern border states
from the Pacific coast to Neuva Leon
on the Atlantic; the central states of
zacatecas Durango and San Luis
Potosl and the southern states of
Vera Cruz, Puebla and Oaxxaca.
The bulk Of the rebel forces are In
the borSV states of Chihuahua and
Coahuila (3.500 mem and the states
south of Mexico City where 1000 men
are in the field.
In short, says Madero, the govern
ment is surrounded by hostile terri
tory ON all sides and the uprising is
a real revolution.