The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-16
10000 U. S. SOLDIERS
Tent TO MEXICAN BORDER
FOURTH or THE u. S. ARMY
HAS BEEN MoRILlzEp IN
TEXAS.
a WAR OF DETERMINATION
DIaz WIN Put Down Instructions by
Showing No quarter to
Rebels.

'' = $500 Az A1OoL CAbCik0ANV
movement OF troops and war vessels
aver executed in this country in time
9f peace Is now under way by order
Of the president as commander-in.
chief Of the army and navy. the OBJ.
lective being the country norta Of
The Mexican boundary and the waters
9f the two oceans at either end of it.
twenty thousand soldiers - more
than one-fuorth of the army of the
United States-of all arms of the SER
vice are moving toward the Mexican
boundary; four armored cruisers com.
prising the fifth division of the At
lantic feet, have been ordered from
northern waters to the naval station
at Guantanamo, Cuba, and most OF the
Pacific feet is or shortly will be on
It's way to assemble at San Pedro and
San Diego, California,
Ell Paso, Texas. Conditions Dor
1ering on panic reign almost through
put northern Mexico.
Stirred by the belief that the reyo
lutionary movement has reached a
critical stage, the insurrectos in the
states Of Chihuahua and Sonora are
reported to nave resumed activity in
earring up railroads and telegraph
wires.
Numerous town, according to re-
ports, are under siege by the insurrec
tos, and thousands of women and
children cut off from food supplies
are rendered helpless.
News reached here of fight at
Aqua Prieta on the border across the
river from Douglas, Ariz. Five hun
dred insurrectos attacked 800 Federal
troops, but were repulsed with total
Of thirty-fye dead and wounded on
both sides.
The fighting was short and the in
surrectos, armed only WITH rifles, soon
Escattered under the fire Of a machine
gun.
What is believed to be a reliable
report Of the casualties at Casas Gran
des say that fifteen Americans were
killed and seventeen Americans eyre
taken prisoners.
Thomasville, Ga.-A letter has just
been received by Mr. R. w. Whiddon
Of this city from his daughter, Mrs.
Max Wright, who, with her husband,
Georgian, is now in Mexico City.
Mrs. Wright states that her brother,
Mr.. Henry Whiddon, had been trying
to return to the United States, he be-
ing also a resident of Mexico, but he
was stopped before reaching the bor-
der and ordered to return to Mexico
Mrs WRIGHT would, Of course, be glad
to leave, but can find no way Of get
ting across the border
Mexico City.-T Thoroughly aroused
by the spread of brigandage and van
dalism incident to the revolution led
byby Francisco l. Madero, and deter.
mined to protect propertyf the Diaz
government will begin to wage against
the lawless element pitiless war Of
determination.
Restricting provision of the
Mexican Constitution not used for Is
years, and acting under its authority
the government will set aside for six
months certain personal guarantees.
Tnen those detected in the act of
highway robbery, of raiding and any
form of train wrecking, of cutting tel
egraph or telephone wires or even of
removing a spike from the railroad
track or throwing stone at train,
will be summarily shot by those MAX
ing the arrest.
Washington. Gen. Robert X. Ev-
ans, in charge of the militia division
of the war department, received a
number of kilograms from the state
adjutants general indicating that ev-
cry state and territory will want to
be adequately represented at the OPP
erations of the army in Texas. 1t Is
positively denied at the war depart.
ment that the question Of inviting OF
requesting the enlisted men Of tie
militia to participate in the campaign,
or to hold themselves in readiness
for such participation, is under con
sideration