Imperial Valley press., 1912-07-09
UNITED STATES WATCHING
GEN. OROzCO'S MOVEMENTS

LOS ANGELES, July 9.-Accordins
to federal secret service men stationed
| in Los Angeles, Mexican and American
officials are cooperating in an investi
! cation of report that the recent de
| feats of General Orozco, the Mexican
rebel chief, will result in a shifting OF
| his operations from chihuahua to So
nora, with view to establishing a
| provisional capital somewhere along
| the west coast, from which point the
revolutionary forces will operate.
! Another report that Orozco is pre-
! pairing to quit Mexico aas been receiv
ed through official channels and
American officials will arrest him if
! he crosses into the United States.
The presence in Los Angeles of the
family of the rebel leader indicates. it
is believed, he will move westward
with the remnant of his army, expect
ing TO receive support from various
Juntas along the west coast.
The retention in this city of Henry
\. Gray. special representative of the
interior department of the government
OF Mexico, since the conclusion of the
trial of Richardo Flores Magon and
other junta celebreties, gives rise to
the belief that the Mexican govern.
ment anticipates further revolutionary
agitation in and around Lower Califor-
mia.
A report from San Diego that Ger
tain persons are trying to recruit an
army to join the forces of Senior de la
Toba, who is entrenched in the noun
tainS east of San Diego with a follow
ing of Yaqui Indians, preparing for an
attack on the Mexica border cities.
yesterday sent Secret Service Agent
Gray to the southern city
The Mexican government planned
the transfer of Mr.. Gray and his as
sistants Immediately after the Magon
trial. Tiofilo Frezieres. who was here
i'll connection with the preparation of
the MagOn litigation, has been recalled
to Ell Paso, where he is engaged in an
investigation of the plans of General
OrOZco.
A bold attempt on the part of Paul
Smith, soldier in the late rebellion
in Lower California. to enlist men to
take arms against the Mexican gov
ernment in a crusade on the west
coast, has been reported to the authori-
ties of both governments. The recenl
actions of Smith provide the first tan
glble evidence of a movement inaugur-
ated on American soil TO recapture
Lower California and to carry the in
vasiOn southwark toward the City of
Mexico. according TO the secret service
operatives.
The Mexican and American govern
ments are striving to forestall a re.
currence of the Lower California in
vasion, especially in view of the pos
Sibility of cooperation between the
western agitators and the Orozco
forces.
Orozco, it is thought, is in grave
danger, and his flight from Juarez is
inevitable. A charge of violating the
neutrality laws of the United States.
the Offense alleged to have been COM
mitted during the Madero revolution.
is pending against him on the Ameri-
can side, and his arrest and prosecu-
ton would follow his entry into the
United States
1t has been reported that General
Orozco has expressed his determina-
ton to make his way to Japan, but the
report is disbelieved
Another significant phase of the
newly inaugurated revolutionary agita-
ton lies in the organization of a new
junta by the Magon partisans. Street
meetings were yesterday conducted at
the Plaza and other places by the Ma
gonlstas and the speakers were greet
ed enthusiastically