The Washington times., 1913-02-23
INTERVENTION IS
BROUGHT NEARER
Government Officials Believe
Killing of Madero Will
InfIame Mexico Afresh.
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was reused from sleep shortly befor,
| noon today by word that Madero hat
been killed through the Huerta-Dia;
government. officially announced to b.
an attempt at a rescue. Mr.. Wilson
got word of this twice in ten minute.
from different sources, but nothins
came to him from State Department
channels. No kilograms at all. in fact
came to the State Department toda!
from Mexico. although the regular
force of telegraphers were at their In
struments in the department.
Considerable wonder was expressed
by officials of the department that nc
word whatever came from Mexico
City or from other parts of Mexico.
This is the first day since the upris.
ing against the Maderista government,
that a great batch Of telegrams has not
kept the State Department wires hot
and the code experts busy with theiI
Bibles and dictionaries.
Gen. Leonard Wood. the chief of STAN
was out horseback riding from his
quarters at Fort Myer when word
reached the War Department of the re.
ported assassination of Madero and OF
the alleged attack on the American en-
bassy. Attempts were made at once to
reach General Wood.
Army Officers in Consultation.
The assistant chief of staff, General
wotherspoon, sent in hurry call for
the chief OF the Latin-American Bureau
of the State Department and also called
into his office the adjutant general.
General Andrews and General Wother-
spoon soon adjourned to the office Of the
adjutant general where they spent a
long time discussing immediate mobili-
cation details.
General Wotherspoon is the head OF
the mobilization division of the general
staff and is the army's official expert
on the mobilization of troops in time OF
war. The carrying out OF many Of the
details and the issuing of the orders so
through the office of the adjutant gen.
eral, so that the conference Of the two
officers was deemed of the utmost sig
nificance.
State Department officials whose busi-
ness II is to maintain peace, and who
talk peace when everyone else talks
war lost something of their calm today
when the news came, while army Of
fcers. who are always more confident
that war will result than the diplomatic
forces, were free with predictions that
the United States army will soon make
its second invasion of Mexican soil.
Navy Officers See Intervention.
Officers of the Navy poined with their
comrads In arms in predicting inter-
Is not so deeply stirred, however, be-
cause Intervention means a great deal
less to this fighting. arm than to the
men of the army.
The War Department has just COM
pieted plans for the gradual encamp-
ment at Galveston of considerably more
coldiers than 1t had been yet announced
would be sent there. the idea being
continuously TO impress Mexico with the
possibility of American Intervention,
and pursuant to this purpose the Fourth
Brigade was ordered to hold itself in
readiness to follow the Fifth, now en-
Instantly the gradual encampment
plan was set aside, 1t IS learned. and
immediate mobilization became the con-
cern of the army chiefs. The orders
were sent out to the Fifth Brigade
commander. and through him to bis
regimental colonels, to be ready to take
train at an hours notice. 1t was ie-
ported thta orders to several more
brigades will be sent out this evening.
Sending such orders, however. will de-
pend upon the plan and policy Of Presi-
dent Taft when he has arrived here.
consulted with Cabinet members and
army chiefs, and considered what
change the shooting OF Madero will
make in the attitude and conduct OF
this Government toward Mexico.
III the American embassy has been
attacked theer is no question about
what will happen inside OF few
hours said one of the army's leaders
this afternoon. Orders would be out
now, assuming that the report Is cor
rect. II President Taft were in the city
Pending his arrival and his consulta-
ton with his official advisers, Cabinet
members and army officers. no orders
will be issued, but every step toward
the issuance of such orders will be
taken. 1t is an open secret that the
orders have been waiting only to be
signed for some weeks. 1t was not
necessarily expected that they would be
given, but they have been made ready
In case they should be, and It seemed
all along to some of us that they
would"