The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-02-01
lis Now Expected to Take
Place as Result Of the
Rebellion There.
PEACE EFFORT MADE
With Man Who is Known to
Have an Army of
5000 Men.

liano lapata has an army OF more
than 5000 men well drilled and well
provided with arms and ammunition
is story that caused the capital to
smile when 1t was brought here re-
Gently by obraham Martinez,
semi-official envoy OF the govena-
ment to zapata, but which before
the ned of the month had received
far more serious consideration. II
the story Is true, it is believed that
| it will alter very materially the re-
lations of the central government
and that of the rebel whose name
has spread panic through half of
Mexico, and which has been adopted
as a battle cry by thousands who
perhaps have never seen him.
Since that day more than year
ago when Francisco /. Madero, NOT
yet president, met Zapata at cua-
utla and by inaugurating negotIa-
lions for peace FRUSTRATED the plans
of the provisional government to
suppress him and his band, the gov
eminent has from time to time In
dulged in roundabout EFFORT to end
its disagreements with him. Marti-
nez has played a big part in these
negotiations. Recently he brought
to the government Zapata's terms for
peace and. although they have not
been made public, it is known that
zapata does not now insist upon the
resignation OF Madero, but that fed
eral troops be retired from the State
of Morelos and that he The made the /
military commander OF the seyenth
Military Zone. whose headquarters
is at cuernavaca. He offers to fur
nish his own soldiers, guaranteeing
the maintenance of peace.
Martinez declares that he IS con-
WINGED OF the truth OF the statement
that zapata has an army of 5000
men, in addition to those numerous
bands which have been raiding the
length and breadth OF the states OF
Mexico, Guerrero, parts of Puebla,
oa&aca, and even those whose oper-
atoms in the state of Morelos have
gained for them the tezm 'savages.p
Zapata's army that owe (which he !
has direct controls, according to
Martinez. in region twenty by
forty miles in an isolated part Of the
state OF Morlos. There his men
have ben for months doing little be-
sides drill and prepare for eventual
tiles. The drilling and organization
have been for months doing little be-
general supervision of Gaudencio
de la Llaye, colonel in the regular
army who Joined the rebellion.
General Joaquin Beltra1, who
conducted the campaign against
General Felix Diaz in Vera Cruz and
who later was made the military
commander in that district, has been
succeeded by General velazco. Gem
eral Beltran was ordered to report
to Mexico City, where he was LETT
subject to orders from the depart
ment of war.
Another change that has caused
much speculation and considerable
gossip was the relieving Of Commo-
dore Azueta. Azueta was in CONF
mand of the little feet in Vera Cruz
harbor, and Diaz depended upon him
for support. but at the last he Joined
forces with Beltran to capture the
rebellious general.
That the loyalty Of the army as a
whole is doubted is common talk in
clubs, cafes and in almost all pub
lie places, and recently the state-
ma1t was made on the floor OF the
lower Mouse by deputy, formerly
an aide Of the president, that high
officers had been approached by
those endeavoring to inclte an army
uprising. The statement provoked
en- slcrid discussion in which the
galleries took an informal though
noisy party. One deputy, in euio-
gizing the army, referred to the cap
ture of Vera Cruz after its occupa-
ton by Felix Diaz, and Immediately
his voice was drowned by voices
from the galleries. crying: Eyes, by
treasoni BY using the white flagr
and several other expressions indica-
tive OF the popular conception of the
means used to accomplish that end.
Mrs Emma Heinzman has return-
ed to the city from Charleston,
where she had been nursing since