Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-19
GOVERNMENT OF mADER0 HAS
FALLEN -HUERTA new PRESIDENT.
President and Brother are Prsoners-The New Stu
alton as Seen from Washington, D. C.-Diaz
Forces Still Advancing Attacking Lines
All of Cabinet But One Arrested
MONDAYS FIGHTING.

Mexico City, Feb. 17.-CBy courier
forces loyal to President Francisco
Madero nor those commanded by the
rebel Felix Diaz, had been defeated
at the close of the fighting in the CEN
ter of Mexico City, on Monday night.
nor did either side show indications
of giving way.
The operations of the day added an
| other chapter to the records of the
desolation and anxiety caused by the
constant bombardment. which had
| lasted over a week. The scene of the
! struggle yet remained in the streets
of the capital, which were practically
deserted bt all but the military, the
| inhabitants having either departed to
| the outer suburbs or taken refuge in
| their cellars.
| The government maintained the
usual number of batteries of artillery.
but added heavier guns than any il
! had Yet used. In spite of these heavy
| pieces Diaz and his followers appear
| TO have suffered only slightly.
Felix Diaz had, at the end of the
| day, succeeded in holding all his CEN
tral positions and had even advanced
his lines in several directions, espe-
| cially towards the West. Beside the
| heavier artillery, he brought into ac-
ZION, during the day, some small bomb
| throwing pompoms whose peculiar
roar added materially to the never
| ending noise of firing. Rifle balls went
| far out of the actual zone of fight
ing into all quarters of the city, one
| of them embedding itself. during the
day, in the kitchen of the United
States embassy.
The government was apparently
| honest in its efforts not to involve for
elgners, and up to a late hour, the
] FEDERAL commander had not placed any
of his batteries in such positions a.
| would draw the fire of the rebel artil-
lery in the direction of the foreigners.
! Some apprehension, however, was
lett by the refugees on account of the
steady advance OF the rebel lines. The
| lnsurgent outposts had crawled far
out to the west of the city apparent
| ly with the object of obtaining a posi-
ton whence they could attack frota
the flank the federal artillery in the
north and west, which had kept up
its pounding of the rebel positions
with monotonous regularity.
II the rebels succeeded in carrying
out their thanking movement, it was
only natural that the federal artillery
| should fire across at them. which
| would bring the embassy district d.
rectly into line. The embassy build
ing was not more than two blocks dis
tant from the rebel outpost,
General Victoriano Huerta, the
communicating chief of the federal
troops in the capital, had issued pr
ders to Col. Rubio Navarrette, his
chief of artillery. under no circuin,
stances to use his cannon to rid the
district of rebel sharpshooters or small
groups, but to reserve their fire for
attacking the rebels fortified positions
or to resist an assault.
Notwithstanding his orders, which
were complied with the widened field
of operations, which. by Monday night,
| included more than half the area of
| the city, caused hundreds of buildings
of every character to become SCARED
with the marks of projectiles, which
| on bursting demolished many interiors.
| President Madero's government was
still confident that it would yet be
able to subjugate Felix Diaz and his
| followers, who remained serenely opti-
mistic.
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