The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-24
Orozco to Join Rebels

rectos. The dispatch read: Orozco to Join Rebels "IIave reliable information that Gen eral Orozco will join the revolutionary forces of Gen. Geronimo Trevino and has agreed 60 accept provisional pres idency of Mexico"
 This dispatch which speaks of "the revolutionary forces of General Ire vino" is the first indication that the stanch old fed ral general. who stood by Diaz when his reign was tottering and was later accepted by Madero, had turned to the insurrectos. The Mexican embassy had no ad- vices and not an official there cared to make comment The state depart lnenr received no confirmation and was inclined to treat the dispatch as re- port of rumor.
 Powerful Alliance coalition between Generals Orozco and Trevino is looked upon here as fraught with great consequences. Gen eral Trevino was last reported in Mon terey in control of the military in the northeastern part of Mexico, while Gen. eral Orozco was operating in the north ! western part These two generals hitherto controlling practically all fed eral troops in the northern half of the country might, 1t is believed, complete ly cut off the north from the south, isolating Mexico City and it's immediate vicinity from connection with the United States.
 The rather ambiguous wording of the . last sentence of the dispatch regarding the provisional presidency was inter- 1 preted among Latin Americans here two . ways. The majority declared it was | Intended to mean that General Trevino ! rather than Orozco had agreed to &C., cept the provisional presidency.
 Ask Intervention
 The El Paso delegation told Secretary stimson that Juarez, with 14.O00 people. l linked fo Fl Paso by an international bridge, was virtually a part of Fl Paso. ! Nightly robberies, holdups and assaults in Juarez, in which Americans were vic- tims and in which their business houses were footed, had become intoleable. He asked that soldiers be sent to patrol the city until tho Mexican government could control the situation. By the withdrawal of Madero troops, the may or said, Juarez had been left defense less
 Secretary Stimson pointed out that United States troops could not be sent Into foreign territory under the present situation and said a depature from this governments present policy would not be warranted so long as life and prop erty in Fl Paso were not endangered by operations across the river.
 The Fl Pasoans protested against any reductions in the number of troops now stationed there.
 Officials Keenly Interested
 Officials of the war department are awaiting with the keenest interest confir- nation of the reported defection of Orozco All that is known here was con tained in a brief telegram from Colonel Stevers at Fl Paso in which he stated that 1t is reported" that Maderos one time right hand man and the leading gen. eral of his army during the revolution, had decided to quit his cause and to head 14000 revolutionists who were reported to be marching on Chihuahua.
 While such an attitude on the part of Crozco accompanied by q growth of the rebellion. perhaps would justify an in- crease of the American troops on the Frontier, it was pointed out that on the
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