Arizona republican., 1912-03-30
Aubert's Army, Broken and Dismayed, Is at the Mercy of the
 Revolutionists
PRESIDENT TRIES
 TO CRUSH PRESS
Paper Is Issued Under Diff faculties; Speculation Is Now Rife at
 Washington

JIMINEz. March 29-Two machine | guns. one field piece. 300 horses and ! l5,OOO rounds of ammunition were left | behind by the federals under General | Aubert. when they fled from their | position eight miles south of here i last night. Saddles and much other ; equipment were left in the ruins of | the village. which was practically de- | stroyed by shells. The federal dead must have been more than a hundred. and the hospitals in JimineZ are | crowded with wounded. I5O of whom were sent to Chihuahua. Aubert is now believed to have but 800 men. Cavalry started in pursuit of him today. Aubert is thought to have been killed yesterday. though this has not been positively confirmed. A body thought to be his was picked up today.
 LAREDO. March 29.-More than 200 refugees twenty-five of whom are children. arrived here from Mexico today. They came principally from Agua Caliente. They said they re- ceived but six hours notice to de- part.
 MEXICO CITY. March 29-The Heraldo came out today with about half it's pages blank In d 1 box 1t stated the space was usually given to the Associated Press dis patches. but censorship prevented it's printing. The editor Gonzales Espin- osa. hid on the roof of his office to escape arrest, but later he agreed to appear in court. The paper stated editOrially the government has refus- ed to allow the publication of news from northern Mexico.
 Despite orders of the police ths Heraldo was printed at noon and copies of the papers were thrown from the roof to the street. Fifty policemen who had been stationed in front of the building.- seized and de- stroyed many papers. but large number gained circulation. Bremen were called to aid the police and played the hose on hundreds of news boys trying to gather the papers from the sidewalk. The affair aroused indignation and amusement among the large crowd who witnessed the
 scene. During the excitement Ig1iacio
 Lara. circulation manager of the
 Heraldo. was seized by secret police
 and gendarmeS and taken to the pO-
 lice station. Miguel Martinez. an as
 sistant who was arrested was rescued
 by employees of the paper after a
 scuffle with the police at the en-
 trance to the Herildo building,
 WASHINGTON. March PA ser
 ies of rumOrs concerning the Mexi-
 can situation. covering every pOssi-
 ble phase of activity on the part Of
 the American government from ac-
 tual intervention to the aSSembaGc
 of great military force on the bor-
 der. down to the dispatch of an en-
 bassy guard to the Mexican capital.
 surged through official Washington
 today. Alarmist stories appeared tU
 have their inception points naturally
 but little informed as to the plans
 of the two governments. As Mexico
 has been cut off from telegraph com
 munica ton since : o'clock last night.
 they were attributed to inSurgent
 press agents Officials were kept
 busy denying stories or temperinG
 them with additions that deprived
 them wholly of sensational features.
 It was declared by one of the gov ernment officials but denied by an other. however. the United States
 had permitted shipment of arms and ammunition to go through to the
 Madero government President Taft believes there is no ground for inter vention. and has not changed his be- lief as result of the military en-
 agreements in Mexico the last two days Consequently it can be stated positively no steps have been taken within that time to strengthen the military force on the border nor tO prepare any expeditionarv force for operations in Mexican territory. The
 supposition that anything of import
 ance could be done in that direction without some knowledge on the part of the country at large and direct
 appeal to congress is declared by
 military authorities to be absurd.
 Admitting the brunt of a campaign
 would be borne by the infantry. it is
 apparent that little of that arm of
 the service is available for a Mexi-
 can campaign. There are in the east
 only four full regiments of infantry.
 and two batallions. In the central
 division are three infantry regiments
 on the Pacific coast, after the Saiiin.
 of the next troop ship to Honolulu.
 April ,, but one infantry regiment will
 remain. The total infantry force that