Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-05-15
General BInncO Awaits ReinfOYcemeMtS
at Rio Byav0---Says VIII Haze 1000
Men to March Against Mat0 mOyOs--
Actual Situation at Rebel Camp Oh
tanned by Herald Representative IN
Person.

Il will attack MatamorOs within few
days with two thousand men," said Gen
eral LuciO G. BlancO, commander of the
Constitutionalist forces in Tamaulipas
and NuevO Leon, to a Herald represen-
tative at his camp at Rio Bravo yestcr-
day. 1--WE have about four hundred men
in Rio Bravo, Lieutenant Colonel Porfi-
rio Gonzales will join us here shortly
with six hundred men, and on the day of
the attack in the ncighborhood of a thou
sand Cnstitutionalists will approach
MatamorOs from the south" concluded
the general
That the Constitutionalists will attack
Matamoros there is no doubt, but the
day of the coming battle is uncertain.
General BlancO would state no time. say
ing merely that it would take place very
soon" Every member of the force is
mounted, and armed with Winchester 30
30s or Mauser rifles. Whether the Rio
Bravo forces are equipped with artillery
would not be stated.
There are no activities in the Consti-
tutiOnalist camps at Rio Bravo at pres
ent. and upon arrival in the town there is
little evidence that the military is there
in such large force The men are com
fortably located in buildings owned by
the COmpania Agricola de Rio Bravo the
horses are stabbed and cOrralled, and the
staff officers are occupying the headquar
ters of the COmpania AgricOla.
The members of General Blanco's staff
include Francisco Jose Mujica, chief of
staff, who by the way is an author Col
Andres SaucedO. Col. Ccsaro Castro.
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Rios Zertuchi
chief surgeon; Lieutenant Colonel Jose
Pena, Major Juan Castro, and Major
Emiliano Z. Nafarrote Practically all
the members of the staff are veterans Of
MaderOs rebellion in 1910. and all have
remained loyal to him.
General Blanco is native of Saltillo.
and operated in that section of the coun-
try during the rebellion against Diaz
Upon the assassination of MadcrO. he
was one of the first to 90 against the new
government.
Lieut.. Col. Zeruch. chief surgeon, has
been fighting about three years having
returned to his practice at Saltillo when
Madero won in February, 1917 he went
into the field again and has remained
with the army since that time Dr. Ter
tuchi is a graduate Of an Atlanta, Ga.
medical school.
The other officers with the exception of
Col Andres Sauccdo. have been in the
army service many years, though all are
men under 4S years of>agc. Col Sauccdo
has spent several years in Fort Worth
and Oklahoma City, having Joined the
constitutionalist forces a few months
ago.
The Herald representative visited the
camp of the constitutiOnalist forces in
person and was received with every cour-
tesy. With him was A. Dittmann. the
motion picture photographer Of this
city Both had dinner shortly before
noon yesterday with Gen. Blanco. and all
the members of his staff. Conversation
during the repast was limited to chiefly
three men, the photographer, the newspa
pcrman, and Lieut.. Col Zertuchi. who
speaks English and who acted as spokcs-
man for General Blanco.