The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-02-19
MEXICO CITY
FIGHT RESUMED
ArmlStlCe Broken When MaderO
Seeks TO I'm prove Position
AMERICANS NOW IN SAFETY
President Taft In Pursuance Of His
Plan to Be Ready For Invasion Has
Arranged For Transport Service.

The truce between Madero and Diaz
the contestants for control in Mexico
City ended by mutual consent several
hours before the time originally
agree upon.
Machine guns on the roof of the
arsenal at once began sweeping San
Juan Plaza south of the Alameda,
where the federals had been taking
positions for a renewal of the assaults
on the rebel fortress.
There was little heavy gun firing,
but General Huerta had placed Max
inns on the roofs of the tallest build
ings in the neighborhood of San Juan
market and was attempting to get into
closer range with the arsenal.
Later there were sorties from the
arsenal and Felicistas and Maderistas
fought with the bayonet in the narrow
streets between the market and the
citadel. The hand.to-hand fighting was
4urlous on the west side OF the Plaza
de San Juan
The ancient church of San Josede
LosnaturaleJ was subjected to the IN
cessant volleys from the rebel guns
and was damaged
he American residents are safer
today than at any time since the re-
volt began. Although the end OF the
truce came sooner than expected there
was sufficient time for the American
ambassador to remove hundreds OF
his countrymen from the center of the
.ity to the Colono Remana and the
Juarez.
The diplomatic corps have not lost
hope OF bringing about peace, but the
difficulties are admittedly enormous
Diaz insists that he will not cease
firing on the palace until Madero and
the government resign and until he
has received absolute guarantees that
the Madero influence is at an end.
he president. contemptuous OF the
action, holds fast to his Office support
ed by General Huerta.
The truce was broken when General
Diaz found that the federals were dig
ging entertainments and advancing
heavy guns. The rebel commander
Immediately turned his Maxims upon
| the Maderistas, holding that the presi-
dent had violated the armistice.
Nearly 500 Americans have left the
city for Puebla. Trains have been
running toward the gulf and the
frontier with fair regularity, but few
| people have entered the city.
The capital was almost gay on Sun.
day for the first time since the re.
volt began The armistice encouraged
| thousands back to the center of the
| city. The shops were open, several of
the larger markets received supplies
rom the country and people were able
to buy food and other necessaries.
From dawn until afternoon the
streets were crowded There was
| ieverish activity. Citizens staggered
under burdens Of food and clothing
which they were removing to places
of refuge. The well-to-do were able
to obtain cash from the banks and
there was more money in circulation
| than had been seen in the city for
eight days.
The greatest boon of all was the op-
portunity given to the Red and White
Jross organizations and to volunteer
sanitary organizations to remove such
things as imperilled health and were
in way to produce pestilence.
For week the sanitation has been
,ndescribable. The forty acres of the
Alameda were strewn with the bodies
lf horses. The cavalry had used the
lark for bivouacs and their position
had drawn destructive shelling from
he arsenal. In many of the principal
streets bodies of soldiers and of citi
zens had lain for days buried under
wreckage of buildings.
In San Juan de Lentran street
twenty federals had been killed on
Friday by the explosion of a shell in
warehouse, where the men were
quartered. The volunteers, made up
Of Mexicans directed by Americans
spanish and German doctors, were
able to remove many of these bodies
and to lessen to some extent the peri
Of pestilence.
Great heaps of garbage were burned
in the streets and in the squares SAM
tation experts examined the water sup
ply for the purpose of seeing if it had
been contaminated.
For seven days a city of 100000
jcople had endured warfare which
recognized none of the laws of civil
lized fighting. Six-inch field guns had
dueled at a range of from four tC
twenty blocks, sweeping the finest
streets of the city with their shells
Night and day the people were
alarmed by the terrific roar of the can
nonading and were driven from
quarter to quarter as the zone of fight
ing extended. All classes suffered.
Dozens of fine residences were
wrecked Some of the most ornamental
buildings OF the capital will have Il
be rebuilt at enormous expense.
A conservative estimate places the
number of dead in the weeks fighting
at 1000 and the number Of wounded
at more than 1900 This includes
citizens and foreign residents as wei
as soldiers.