The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
zAPAT|STAS ARE
 MENAC|NG CAPITAL Chamber of Deputies in
 Exciting Session .CRITICISE MADERO Demand a Detailed Report From the Minister of War in Regard to the Two Battles-The
 Federals Repulsed -1
CRITICISE MADERO

Mexico City, October 25.-Shocked by
 the realization that the forces of Emilano Zapata had entered the federal district
 sacked a town and then stood off a de-
 tachment of the federal army, the cham
 Der of deputies tonight demanded that
 the acting minister of war and the min
 ister of the interior appear before that
 body and render full reportsr egarding
 the insurrection and the measures being
 taken for its suppression. It was agreed
 to remain in session until the ministers
 appeared and that should the head of the
 war department fail to report before
 morning, to go to his house in public protest
 To consider the action of the deputies, the president called a special session or the cabinet and it was agreed that the deputies should be given as soon as pos sible the details of the campaign against the rebels.
 Not in many weeks has there been so tumultuous a session of the chamber. | Every paper in the city today carried | long accounts of the battle of Milpa Alta, | in which the Zapatistas had repulsed the | federals, killing and wounding more than half of the battalion sent against them and the alarm in the capital was rot allayed by official statements calculated l to minimize the defeat.
 Late in the afternoon there reached the | city and the chamber a report, subse- | quently confirmed, that another slight
 encounter between federals and rebels | had occurred, this time within two miles | of Xochillico. This news increased the | tension in the chamber, whose galleries | had by that time been filled to their ca-
 pacity.
 Francisco l. Madero shared the denunc-
 iation leveled at the government by the
 excited deputies and the gallaries ap- | plauded.
 | One deputy made complimentary refer
 ence to Diaz and his government and,
 again the audience showed its approval. Milpa Alta today was In the hands of | the government troops and there Gen | eral Chaz, in command of the column
 sent from the capital, has made his | temporary headquarters.
 Moving northward through the state
 of Morles is General Caso Lopez at the | head of a considerable force. The Zapatstas, who raided the federal dis
 trict town, and whose exact numbers | not even the government knows, are
 scattered in small bands throughout the | surrounding hills. | The government officials state that | the rebels are retiring to the state of Morles, but the fact that few federals lengaged small detachment of troops | ina oIyf ,ieI ind faq that a portion at least are nearer the
 capital than yesterday.
 ! In the town of Milpa Alta represen-
 tatives of the White Cross and the Red
 Cross today attended the wounded. 1 In the streets of the little town to-
 night some 50 bodies remain unburied. The residents of Xochillico, guarded | by rurales until late this afternoon,
 when the government force was ordered | into the hills, fear an attack tonight,
 and wild rumors of movement toward ! the city are heard, though not given | credence by many. One of these ru-
 mors tonight was that Zapata had sent
 the minister of war a demand for the
 surrender of the city. The story was | denied
 Many of the small towns in the path
 of the rebels have been practically de- serted and left at the mercy of the raiders, according to an official state
 ment made tonight. News from the
 state of Morles, the stronghold of the rebels, Is that the dash into the federal
 district has aroused the spirits of the
 rebels, who have renewed. with greater energy, the campaign of footing. | A number of villages have been oc-
 cupied and dispatches from Cuautla to-
 night say the occupation of Chietla Is | imminent.
 1 Reluctance of government officials to admit defeat and conflicting statements
 make 1t almost impossible to ascertain
 the number of killed in the Milpa Alta battle. From best information at hand
 however, a fair estimate seems to be | 75 or 80 killed, and three-quarters of l them were rebels.