New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
MEXICO CITY AMERICANS
REASSURE WASHINGTON
Formally Advise State Depart.
ment That Reports Of Danger
Are Exaggerated.
FIGHT LIKELY AT JUAREz
Orozco, with 5000 Rebels, and
Huerta, with Equal Number
Of Federals, Only Fifteen
Miles Apart.
from The Tribune Bureau1

Washington, May 1S.-Resolutons brand.
Ing as false the reports that Mexico IL
verging on state OF anarchy in some Sec
tons, adopted by the council OF admin
istration of the Society of the American
Colony In the City Of Mexico. have been
received by the Department Of State, and
are regarded as confirmation Of other ad-
vices that reports about Americans being
In great danger are exaggerated.
The resolutions set forth that the stories
that the doors OF houses are barricaded
and machine guns have been placed on the
roofs, that Americans are doing guard
duty and that rioting and fighting are oc-
curing in the city are entirely without
foundation and do not contain a scintila
Of truth, but are the offspring of the fertile
Imagination of persons DESTROYS OF misrep.
resenting the actual conditions existing in
Mexico City" The population Of the city
Of Mexico, both native and foreign, the
resolution continues, lis going about It's
usual avocations without hindrance or in
convenience" and any reports to the con-
trary are pure fabrications."
Definite reports from the battle occurring
q week ago are that heavy losses were
sustained by the rebels. both in men and
supplies. 1t Is also reported that the fed
erals have been victorious in the series Of
skirmishes east Of Chihuahua In the last
few days. General conditions in Mexico
are reported as more quiet, except in the
states of Puebla. Tamaullpas and OaXaca.
Messages from the transport Buford Ie-
port that she is cruising northward and
will reach Manzanillo on May p, San Bios
on May % and Mazatlan on May q.
Mexico City, May 1S-A telegram from
the federal camp at Ceballos, twenty miles
north of Canejo, forecasts that battle will
probably occur in the vicinity Of Escalon
within twenty-four hours.
A body of federal troops arrived at Cebai'
los last night, having travelled from Termo
on foot. The journey was a very painful
one over sand ana the men We're almost
choked with dust. The march toward the
north is TO be resumed at daybreak.
While approaching the town the federal
troops observed a train from the north.
which returned upon sighting the federals
The rebels burned the bridges after the
train had repassed.
Ell Paso. Tex. May ls.-The Mexican FED
pral government, by q SrlltS Va AiA"iiN-~A'
that are expected to come TO climax IN
the next three days, hopes 10 deal so crush
ing blow to the rebel movement IN the
north as 70 disperse their army.
While General Orozco, with five thousand
rebels. is holding strategic posts between
Rellano and Jiminez, and General Huerts
with an equally strong force OF federals' Is
only fifteen miles away to-day. pressing
northward to the attack, sharp fighting Is
looked for all the way TO the American
border.
Communication BY wire and rail south OF
Iuarez will lie severed within two days BY
advancing columns Of federals. Chihuahua
whore there are hundreds OF American
residents will be cut off from both the
north and the south. and the government
Mans TO drive Orozco back into that CITY
and force him TO surrender or take 10 th'
hills Chihuahua is likely 10 be the last
stand OF the rebels.
Tho arrival OF q federal column AT san
rqnac,o forty-five miles east ii Juarez
to-day was the first warning OF we" or
eanized campaign In the rear OF the main
rebel army. II Is planned 10 suIiou'''
Juarez and destroy the connecting INK of
the insurgents with the thIIeu 0'N'''
Three columns Of federal volunteers are
ronyerging on Juarez with the purpose o.
forcing SIS surrender. One column o. ~
men has marched up the Rio Grande 70
san Ignacio, another. numbering six nun
ored. il approaching the city from the Wes'
and a Thrill detachment is marching ron
the southwest.
The capture Of Juarez would stop the
shinn,nt of munitions OF war ana proV's-
ions 10 the rebels.