The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-02-21
DIAz STILL DEFIANT
MADERo FORCES FAIL TO CAP
TURE ARSENAL.
After a Short Armistice, Following a
Week Of Hard Fighting, the Battle
Was Resumed With Renewed
Vigor by Both Sides.


were resumed with renewed fierceness
in the Mexican capitala after a truce
which lasted only few hours.
The armistice, signed at o'clock
in the morning by representatives of
both sides, agreeing to suspend oper-
ations for twenty-four hours, was
broken before noon.
Soon the sound of heavy cannonad-
ing and the whirr of machine guns an
nounced the return of the federal
troops to their posts in front of the
arsenal
1t appeared as if the words OF Ma
dero and Diaz might prove prophetic
and that this time the battle would
be to a finish.
President Madero has reiterated his
refusal to comply with the sugges-
tions of the senators that he resign.
He declared that he was still able to
dominate and that, if given time,
would crush the rebel forces.
General Diaz had not shown him
self to be greatly in favor Of the
armistice, but consented to it out of
respect for the efforts of the Ameri-
can ambassador and the ministers of
the powers to bring about cessation
of hostilities until foreigners and non
combatants still within the zone of
the fighting could be removed TO a
position of comparative safety.
Diaz regarded the truce as merely
delay in the accomplishment of his
fixed purpose to drive Madero out of
the presidency. The fighting Satur-
the rebels, who had resisted all as
saults against them, had received into
their ranks several hundred federal
deserters and had obliged the federal
commanders to admit that, for the
present at least, the rebel position
was impregnable.
The strictest censorship OH all dis
patches has been established in the
City of Mexico. Government officials
Took charge of the cable Office short
ly after o'clock Saturday afternoon
and ruthlessly discarded messages of
correspondents to their papers.
Refugees Seek Assistance.
Early in the morning the embassy
was the scene of intense activity. A
dozen motor cars moved swiftly to
and fro, carrying refugees, provisions
and messages. The work entailed ne
cessitated the hiring of a corps of ex-
ira clerks and stenographers. The
embassy building was besieged by
hundreds, not all of them Americans
who asked for advice or assistance,
There is little actual suffering from
lack of food or shelter within the city
but there is vast amount of dis
comfort and great danger to those
who remain.
Americans to Leave Mexico.
City of Mexico, Feb. 15.-FranciscC
Wilson, in a message to the State
Department, said that arrangements
were being rushed to remove women
and children from the country by the
way of Vera Cruz and that Americans
and other foreigners rapidly were be
ing removed from the fighting zone
in the revolution torn city. This mes
sage was sent before the armistice
was reported broken.
- The City of Mexico.-FranciscC
Madero declared that he would no
resign the presidency of Mexico. HI
said that he was legally elected by
the people; that he was the eonsti
tuted president and that he would die
before he would resign the Office
The presidents declaration was
made to the Spanish minister, Senol
Jacinto De Cologan y Cologan, whC
was with him at the national palace
Just before the arrival of the senate
committee. The failure OF the com
mittee to find the president was due
simply to the fact that he refused 4
see the senators.
Madero's Day Of Losses.
What was promised again by thu
government to be a day of terrible
punishment for Felix Diaz, the rebe
commander. developed into the weak
est attempt at his subjugation.
Madero's artillery conducted the at
tack half heartedly. although his in
fantry at times showed desperate
courage.
1t was the advance of the federal
down Balderas street early in th'
day which provoked the first sharl
reply from the mutinous zone.
A Slaughter Of FederaIs.
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