Arizona republican., 1911-02-09

ont heinz prepared to recite something
 original in the way of toasts. The
 general toiled for some hours end fin
 ally. out of a brain clouded with powder
 smoke, evolved this specimen:
 "Juar-ez hell,'
 Said Jeffe POliticO. and left Before it was shelled
 To a friendly border land across The river to dwell"
 Shakespeare never did anything like ! it, which doubtless accounts. in large
 measure, for the popularity of Shakes peare.
 | General Phillips referred to the resig-
 nation of the jefe poltico of JuareZ,
 who had just telegraphed his resigna-
 ton to President DiaZ and crossed over
 to the American side of the Rio Grande.
 It was common talk in Fl Paso that he
 had already taken out first papers pre- | liminary to becoming an American citi-
 zen The jefe politicO was we'll known
 to MT. Phillips, who says that of all the
 Mexican officers along the border, he
 was regarded as the most friendly to Americans.
 All of MT. Phillips Mexican trips
 were made by automobile. He says
 that had he cared to do so he could
 have smuggled across an automobile
 load of dynamite each trip. When the
 machine crossed the bridge the federal soldiers would merely halt it moment, take cursory glance into the tonnau and motion the party to proceed.
 The government troops were too
 busy defending Juarez to pay any at
 tention to Americans crossing back
 and forth" said the new-made general.
 The insurrectionists were giving them all kinds of trouble I went to JuareZ on the street car Friday night but was not permitted to get off. Soldiers were patrolling the streets and while they let.
 us ride through the city on the car
 they would not let us go where we
 pleased.
 ''B tween six and seven hundred young men have been drafted by the government in JuareZ. They are called citizen soldiers and are held in readiness to defend the city from the roofs of houses when an attack comes. They will not be given guns. however, until the attack does come do not think these soldiers will amount to much as a defensive force.
 Many of the soldiers in JuareZ are kept constantly on the roofs of the houses, but should the place be shelled l fancy that there would be some little congestion around each trap door. The buildings have been prepared to with stand smelling by sandbags being piled against their walls.
 General Orozco, the leader of the revolutionary army around Juarez is either a great military genius or he has someone with him who is a genius. The manner in which the insurrectionists are handled proves that They are giv- en orders to kill off and harass the federals but to protect themselves at all times.
 "OrOZco has been criticized for not attacking and taking Juarez before General Rabago arrived with rein forcements for the city. The fact is that he doesn't want the place To hold it would take many more men than he | has under him at present. The more l go in to hold JuareZ, the | better will suit him. His idea and l the idea of his associates is to draw l as many federal soldiers as possible | away from Chihuahua As soon as the | government is sufficiently weakened in | that part of the republic, the insur- rectOs in Chihuahua. who are TOW lying | low, will rise and overrun the district.
 While the revolutionists are con ducting sort of guerilla warfare. they | are not violating the rules of war and | Orozco detailed l5O men to blow up the train on which General | -;tl, ments. but told them not to do so if | there were any non-combatants there | on. As the first three or four cars were filled with women and children the insurrectos could not destroy the | train. Rabago said that he placed the | -combatants in front for their own | but he did SO for the pro- lection of himself and his own men"
 All the battle of Sunday was seen by | General Phillips. He stayed on the field from l1:45 until and in that i time say about thirty federals fan. | though. so far as he could see. there | was not one casualty on the other side | Fifteen sharpshooters had been placed | on one little hill where he could see | them plainly. but where they were hid- | den from the defenders of Juarez. One | or them had a range finder and the | others were armed with rifles. Every | time one of the rIflemen fired a shot a | federal went doY1. Little squads of l soldiers were sen dt at various times, always on the double quick. but never did a quad get very far before one of | lts number bit the dust. Then two of | ms comrades would seize him and the entire squad would hurry back to cover
 One time the automobile partv of which General Phillips was a member ran across two Americans and three Japanese who were leading six mules. From the pack on one of the mules pro- lected a muZzle that looked like a mart of rapid-fire gun. Not all Iha insur- 'ectos are Mexicans. The two Ameri- cans walked like they had had military training and General Phillips thinks ii luite likely that they were once sol Hers of the United States army. The Iaps may have been veterans of the Russian war.
 once the party stopped to talk to punch Of insurrectos and one of them lsked the general for smoking tobacco u happened that General Phillips had small sack of Bull Durham and q few papers which he had purchased at in. NnEr