The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-24
AMERICANS ASK
FOR PROTECTION
El Paso Citizens Wish
Troops Sent Into
Juarez.
STIM SON SAYS
1T is IMPOSSIBLE
Washington Hears That General
Trevino Has Cast His Lot With
Rebels, and orozco Has
Agreed to Accept Provision
al Presidency-Bloody
Battle San Pedro.

washington, February 23.-Two de-
'eiopments in the Mexican situation:
each taken to be loaded with s,rris.
eahce' We're recorded here to-day.
y request for American Intervention
IN MeNico was made upon the War De-
nartment when Mayor Kelly and a del
cSation of citizens OF Ell Paso urg,ntIy
ASKED Secretary Stinson to send Amer
lean troops into Juarez to prescrye or
der and protect Americans. Secretary
o'iHson replied II was impossible UNI
DER present conditions
In dispatch from government
Official on the border. one not in The
diplomatic service. 1t was reported that
General Geronimo Trevino. in yhihua.
hua, had turned to the aid of the IN
surrcctos. The dispatch rad:
Have reliable Information that Gem
eral orozco will Join the revolutionar,.
forces OF General Geronimo Trevino and
mas agreed TO accept provisional NEE
idency of McNico."
HID Stood by DIaz.
RMS dispatch, which speaks of "tho
revolutionary forces " General Ire
vino Is the first indication ;hut ,he
staunch old Federal general, who stood
ny Diaz when his reign was tottering.
ana was later accepted by Madero, had
turned to the insurrectos.
The Mexican embassy had No al
Vices. and no official there cared t.,
make comment. The State Department.
received no confirmation. and was in
cllned to treat the dispatch as a reporo
OF u rumor.
coalition between Generals Orozco
ana Trevino Is looked upon here a.
iraught with great consequences. Cen
aral Trevino WAS last reported i'm Mon
terey. in control OF the military IN
the northeastern part OF Mexico whit.
General Oro.co was operating in the
northwestern part These two Cener-
ais, hitherto controlling practically all
Federal troops in the northern half OF
the country, might. 1t is believed. com
pleteiy cut OF the north from the south,
isolating Mexico City and Its Immediate
vicinity from connection with tho
United States.
The rather ambiguous wording OF tho
last sentence of the dispatch regarding
the provisional presidency was inter-
preted among Latin Americans here
two ways. The majority declared 1t
was intended 10 mean that General Ire
vino, rather than Orozco had agreed
to accept the provisional presidency.
Mayor Kelly. OF Ell Paso; Winchester
Cooley. an FL Paso banker. and three
other citizens OF that place told Sec
rotary Stimson that Juarez. with 1900
population, linked to Ell Paso by an
International bridge and trolley lines,
was virtually part OF FL Paso. Nightly
robberics, hold-ups and assaults III
Iuare2 in which Americans were Vic
tins and in which their business houses
We're looted. had become intolerable. He
asked that soldiers be sent to patrol
the city until the Mexican government
could control the situation. BY tho
withdrawal OF Madero's troops, thu
Mayor said, Juarcz had been left de-
fenseless.
Action Impossible Now.
Secretary Stimson pointed out that
United States troops could not be sent
into foreign territory under the pres
ent situation, and said that Il depar-
ture from this governments present
policy would not be warranted so long
as life and property in FL Paso were
not endangered by operations across
the river.
The Ell Paso delegation protested
against any reduction of the border
patrol. y large cavalry force was nee
essary, they said. The delegation also
pleaded for leniency in the case OF
Lieutenant Fields, who took detach-
ment into Juarez on q trolley car. Sec
rotary Stinlson declined to interfere
with Colonel Stecver's orders for
court-martial.