Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-28
Herald Gives First Hand News
of Hand to-Hand Fighting
in Capital Streets

SHELLS wreck room and shatter fur
liture in American Club" .>~ Il
Guard placed over achives of u.
5. consulate"
Government is ovcrthrown and
Madero taken prisoner"
..Mutinous troops placed under ar
rest"
American woman dies of awful
wounds from shell" a&"
Heaviest days fighting; much.
property damaged ~~ s.#
'peadly work done by machine
guns
These are a few of the headlines
from the Mexican Herald, the first
newspaper from the heart of the war.
in Mexico to reach Honolulu. The,
papers swere received in this city by
Bruce Cartwright, Jr., and were puo
|iished during the week of fighting in
The capital Of the southern republic.
The papers date from February 8 to
Is, and contain detailed accounts OF
every battle which ragged in Mexico
City on February Il is. fully describ
ed, beginning with the. assaults by the
federaIs upon the forces of Genera
Diaz defending Ciudadela, taking III
the engagement at the Y. M. c. A.
and finally ending with the retire
ment of the Felicistas. It was at this
juneture, says the Herald, that Amer.
lean Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson
made a special request to all Ameri,
cans in the capital to carefully avoid
the dangerous situations, urging them
to keep away from the localities
where engagements We're liable to
take place.
The account of the fighting in the
city.on February la tells of the great
damage done by the artillery fire, and
The slaughter caused by the machine
guns. Eight missiles pierced the
walls of the American club. shatterinn
the masonry and wrecking the furni-
ture in the interior. An American
woman, while working in the kitchen
of her apartments, was instantly kill.
ed by an exploding shell which enter
ed a window Despite the battle,
says the Herald, the little newsboys
shot dice in the streets, not needing
the rain of bullets. The telephone
system was put out of commission by
the heavy firing and many were
killed in the streets before they could
seek cover. s- 81.
A tribute to American Ambassador
Wilson by the Herald in an article en-
titled Work of American Ambassa-
dor Wilson is Praised on All Sides.
The work of Mrs. Wilson is also high.
ly commended by the. paper. The
story of the ASSASSINATION of Gustav
Madero, a brother of Francisco Ma
dero, who was later murdered. says
that he was shot by his guards while
being transferred from one prison to
another According to the story told
by the guards, he made dash for
liberty, whereupon they fired upon
and killed him. The paper of the
twentieth devotes considerable space
to an article concerning General
Huerta's acceptance of the provincial
presidency, following the resignation
of Madero and SuareZ. Huerta took
the oath of office at IL: Is o'clock at
night in the presence of deputies, and
senators. On entering and leaving the
chamber of deputies, says the article,
Huerta was cheered by the public,
and after taking the oath held short
informal reception in the chamber,
where he received the congratulations
of the members of the upper and
lower houses. A session of the depu7
ties was called the first thing in the
morning. ~" ~ ..=.~. -
In a number of brief, pointed para
graphs, the Herald each day summed
up the details of each engagement,
and while many of these tell of death
and destruction. still many of them
are written with an insight into
humor. A few examples are as fol
lows: 49, H.. - -. . -: