Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-12
WILL ATTACK CITY
Rebels Expect to Enter
0jinaga in a Few Days.
TO ACTIVELY PRESS WAR
Gen. Sanchez Declares Diaz Must
Step Down and Out.
MORMONS FEAR REBEL RAID
Colony South of Ell Paso Believes
Crops Will Be Forcibly Taken
by the Insurrectos.
MORMONS FEAR REBEL RAID

PRESIDE, Tex, April II tvia Maria,
Tex, April 12)-Jose de la Cruz San
chez. tnsurrecto commander, announced
today that the insurgent army would
enter the besieged city Of Ojinaga Mex
| leo. within five days. Day by day the
| rebel lines have been drawn closer, and
after brisk fight last night the
| trenches were advanced until bullets
| were falling in the water at the new
ford, the last possible link to the
American shore, and the only source
of supplies for the beleaguered garri-
son.
Braulio Fernandez. provisional secre-
| tary Of state for Chihuahua, has estab-
lished headquarters in the camp of Gen.
Sanchez. He declares all talk Of peace
at this time unauthorized.
why should the progressives take half
a loaf when everything is in their grasp?'
he declared. 1T would be ridiculous to
| expect the old reactionary Diaz regime
to carry out the reform ideas.
| Diaz Must Step Out.
1.-THE war will be actively pressed he
continued, until Dfaz's government steps
down and out. This war is bigger than
| Francisco Madero or any group Of lead
| ers. 1t is a revolt Of the people, and
they are not going to stop until they win
the reforms they are after"
A party Of $50 reinforcements, headed
by Esteban Cardenas, jefe politico of
Cuchillo Parade. arrived at the camp of
Sanchez yesterday. Cardenas Is the man
who fought the insurgents at Cuchillo
! PARADE three months ago. He has been
warm government supporter until re-
nanf1v rrHA h. Al,1
insurgent cause
A company Of 200 men with two field
pieces are expected to join the insur-
gents IN few days from the northwest.
Mormon Colony Fears Raid.
Ell PASO. Tex, April 12-According to
Bishop Orson Brown of Colonia Morelos.
one OF the Mormon colonies south Of here.
the colonists are disturbed by prospects
Of raids upon their plantations.
The Mormons have their crops in the
ground, but the natives, Bishop Brown
declares, have done no planting and face
famine in the near future.
According to advices from Torreon,
James Boland, representing American op-
orators In the Los Refs district of Du-
range, has made formal complaint to the
United States consular agent. Carothers,
at Torreon. regarding the interruption of
business caused by the instruction.
Gen. LoJara, commanding the federal
forces in that district, has been asked
for protection for American interests.
Artillery Is the most pressing need of
the fnsurrectos, and every effort is being
made to smuggle cannon across the bor-
der.
Watch for Violations.
Information has reached United States
officials here that several machine guns
have been cached near the border in
New Mexico, west Of here, pending a
favorable opportunity to take them over
the International line. A close watch is
being kept
The FL Paso Pioneer Society has asked
Mayor Kelley for a special guard for a
brass canno standing In the city hall park.
The companion to this cannon was re-
Gently stolen from the park. and is now
said to be in use in the insurrecto siege