The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-02-19
GOVERNMENT STAMPS REBEL
LION AS COLLECTION OF
LOCAL DISORDERS.
RAIDS IN MANY PLACES
Rebels Are Operating in Sixteen
States and Seem to 30 Doing About
as They PIsase-Gonex's Announce
nent Causes Belief That Disturb
anes Is General.

Mexico City, Feb. ls-Einllio
vasquez Gomez's frank public declara-
tion that he will accept the provisional
presidency in case the rebels succeed
in forcing Francisco Madero from the
national palace has gone far toward
convincing unofficial residents of the
capital that a general rebellion is in
progress. Mexican officials. however.
continue to characterize as local dis
orders the insurrectlon in the country.
Although the rebels are now oper-
aAing in IS states the department of
ahe interior continues to give out news
denying trouble In great part OF
these. Last night there was a fight
at San Pedro. some 80 miles from
Torreon. in which 81 men We're killed,
the majority said to have been rebels.
commanded by Jose Argumedo. Such
information as Is obtainable from
Torreon indicates that for a consider
able distance to the east and as far
south and west as Durango, the capital
of the state of the same name, the
region Is being raided almost at Mill
by rebels The government has denied
officially that Guerrero. in Chihuahua,
has fallen into the hands of rebels.
The Scenes.
with the exception of the six
southern states. where Emiliano
Zapata and Jesus II. Salgado are stub
bornly resisting the army now waging
n war of determination, and with
some headway, the region most
seriously menaeed Is that In the states
of Coakuila and Durango. Other states
In which rebels are operating are Chi
huahua. Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis
Potosi. Jalisco and Michoacan.
Far south In Tobasco and In the
state OF Vera Cruz, there are bands
which appear to be not closely con-
rected with Zapatista movement At
present there appears to be no one who
lis directing the various bands of
rebels, but from almost all quarters
of the republic ~ here the rebels have
appeared. VasaueZ Gomez has been
proclaimed as their chief, even Zapata
having announced that he only Will
cease when the fugitive ex-eabnet
minister Is placed in the presidential
chair
Among the leaders In the field about
Torreon Is Manuel Cara Aldape, pro-
claimed for the vice presidency. How
many rebels there are In arms no one
knows, but the news of the last week
indicates the insurgent force is in
creasing rapidly.
The government has placed an order
in Germany for 100000 rifles and a
biz order in Belgium for cartridges.
Robes Is Busy.
General Robles, commander of the
forces in the south, and his officers
have made plans for a renewal of the
campaign this week. Rebels can be
encountered within q few miles Of
Cuernavaca and both rebels and fed
erals are waging a pitiless warfare In
Morelos. Few prisoners are taken
and the government troops last week
began the obstruction of villages and
the herding of women and children
into camps I'm the towns to prevent
them from aiding the men in the field
In the state of Oaxaca, according to
an official note, government troops
killed 13 yesterday in fight with SC
rebels. The assurance Is given that
these men were the same who tore w
the track of the Mexican Southern In
Oaxaca a few days ago.