The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-03

MEXICAN REBEL
HAS LARGE ARMY
.
PRESIDENT MaderD May Be Com
OeIIed to Grant Demands
OF Zapata
CIVIL WAR WILL CONTINUE
Relieved Il viii Take Three Years
TO 0ueIl Rev0Its
MANY SOLDIERS NOT LOYAL

Mexico city, Feb. 3.-That Emiliano
Zapata has an army of more than 5000
men we'll drilled and well provided
,,tb arms and ammunition, is II story
mat caused the capital To smile when
Il was brought here recently by ABB
,bam Martinez, a semi official envoy
of the government to Xapata. If the
story is true, IL is believed here that
If viii alter very materially the rela-
tons 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 bat
lie cry by thousands who perhaps
have never seen him.
The government has from time to
time INDUCED in roundabout efforts to
end its disagreements with him. Mar
tnez 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 Ia
pata does not now insist upon the
resignation of Madero, but that federal
troops bee retired from the state of
Morclus and that he be made the mil
itary commander of the Seventh Mil
day Zone. whose headquarters is At
Tueluayaca. lie offers la furnish his
own soldiers, guaranteeing the main
lenance of peace.
Martinez declares that he is con-
vincod of the truth of the statement
that Xapata has an army of 5000 men
in addition to those numerous bands
which have been raiding the length
ana breadth of the states of Mexico.
Guerrero, parts of Puebla, OaXaCa, and
even those whose operations in the
state of Morelos have gained for them
the term "savages." Zapata's army
that over which he has direct con-
trolls according 10 MARTINEZ, in
region twenty by forty miles in an
Isolated part Of the state of Morelos.
There his men have been for months
done little besides drill and preparing
for eyrutualities The drilling and or
aniE1tou have been done. hr says
under the general supervision of
Gadd,urio de la Lave a colonel in
the regular army who joined the re
brIuou.
Army's Loyalty Mentioned.
That the loyalty of the army as a
Whole is doubted is common talk in
clubs cafes aud in almost All public
places, ana recently the statement was
made ON the floor of the lower House
by deputy, formerly an aide of the
president, that high officers had been
approached by those endeavoring to
metr an army uprising. The state
menl provoked an acrid discussion in
which the galleries took an informal
lhouEh noisy part. one deputy in
'1i"sizlng the army referred To the
rccapture of Vera cruz after its oc
cumtton by Felix Dia2, ana immcdi-
aicy his voice was drowned by voices
from the galleries. crying Yes. by
'r,isuu' by using the white Nag.
ana several other expressions indica-
i've of the popular conception of the
one incident that promised serious
Consequences was the unfolding of the
records that tell how the army list has
been maintained. Incidental to the
discussion of some bill a deputy
'hargcd that the army. during the
campaign against Orozco, had been
augmented 10y 1000 prisoners taken
rom Bclem the big city prison, before
HE charges against them had been de-
"imined by the courts. The deputy,
VINO vas the Attorney General at that
'Ilt was called upon to corroborate
'nlS statement and did so. explaining
'hat the president. in n cabinet meet
'ns' had determined To commute the
sentences of these men. This course
was regarded MS necessary since, not
outstanding the high pay offered
soIdlers, no men could he found to en-