The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-03
PROTECTING
 FOREIGNERS
AMERICA AND GERMANY CAUSES MEXICO TO TAKE STRENUOUS
 MEASURES.
Troops and Artillery Rushed to Be- leagured City to Protect 1t From Capture and Guarantee Per
 onal Safety.

Mexico City, May 2--Accompan ied i by member of the German legation, Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to- day called at the foreign office and requested protection of for the Amer jeans and Germans in the city of Cuernavaca. which has been isolated since Saturday and which is believed to be in danger of attack by rebels.
 The Mexican government is dis posed to give all protection possible to foreigners and it is also desirous of guarding it's state capitals from capture, so that the announcement made at the war department this aft ernoon that orders had been issued for additional troops to March 10 Cuernayaca which is the capital of to protect foreigners as well as to garrison the threatened city Ii was s~-~ ~d that in this instance the interest of the government was almost identical with that of the foreigners nat in doing all it could to protect itself 1t was doing all it could to pro tect the foreigners
 The foreign office has assured the embassy that there is no cause for alarm.
 Other troops now garrisoning this city will leave the capital tonight or early in the morning for Cuernavaca and the surrounding territory This force will comprise a battalion of in fantry and company of artillery. bearing machine guns and rapid fire pieces.
 That the city will be attacked is not believed at the war department, where the opinion prevails that the rebels will be content to continue the raiding of haciendas
 Two work trains were sent today to d1l Parque, where the trains wreck ed Saturday still obstruct the line and where a few rails are torn out. One went from Cuernavaca and the other from here. Both were permitted to arrive at the scene of the wreck when rebels. left on guard, ordered them to return to their headquarters and remain there. If the military es cort under whom the gang of work men will attempt to work succeeds in holding back the insurrectos the line can be cleared in a few hours
 The speedy administration of jus tice in one case has gone far today towards solving problem which has threatened to become an embarrassing one for Mexico This afternoon the Spanish minister was informed that the government had captured two of the rebels responsible for the assassr- nation of six Spaniards last week on the Atencngo Hacienda, had given them summary trial and executed them.
 Minister Bernardo de Coogan Cologan. convinced that Mexico was showing commendable activity in the punishment of the men, tonight cabled a report of the incident to his government.
 l Reports received from Torreon are that the city and the immediate dis ltrict are in complete control of the federal authorities but that in the surrounding country state of affairs bordering on anarchy prevails.
 Eighteen prisoners. three soldiers, 1.-two prison officials and one rural Iguard are dead in Topic, the capital of the territory of that name as tho result of an attempted jail delivery. according to report made today to the department of war by General Ma Iriano Ruis. the jefe politico.
 The authorities learned of the plot just in time to rush troops to the ljail. The prisoners attempted to over bower the guard and in that cn- counter twenty four persons were kill cd and many times that number were wounded