The Chitina leader., 1913-02-18

/ MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12-Three
thousand prisoners were today re-
LEASED.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Feb.
l13-General Mans has orders to pro-
coed Immediately to Albany to COM
mand the First brigade of the divi-
sion.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-The
eace Society, by resolution suggested
to President Taft and President-elect
Wilson a plan to police Mexico by the
nations of the world.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13-The bat
tie between the Federals and Diaz
forces was resumed at o'clock this
morning at close range, and the
streets are strewn with dead bodies.
Among those killed were Mrs. w. H.
Holmes and Mrs. Percy Griffths, both
Americans
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-Presi-
dent Taft has authorized Ambassador
| Wilson the use of unlimited funds if
necessary to protect Americans.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-Secre-
tary of State Knox has instructed
Ambassador Wilson to warn all
Americans to keep out of the fighting
zone.
LONDON, Feb. 13-The press gem
orally of England recognize the justi-
| fiecation of American Intervention in
Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13-Ambassa-
dor Wilson has rented a number of
houses on the outskirts of the city
and the Americans fed there in anti
cipation of a renewal of lombard
ment this morning.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13-At 10
O'Clock this morning General Felix
l'iaz trained his heavy artillery on the
palace. A shell landed in the library
of the American Club, where it ex-
ploded, causing much damage and
CONSERVATION but not resulting in any
deaths.
The situation has become so seri-
Gus that a hundred thousand people
have fled from the city, fearing that
their lives were endangered. The
streets are checked with the remains
of the dead and murder and robbery
are being carried to such an alarming
extent that it has gotten beyond all
control.
The rules of warfare are also being
violated, the President of the Red
Cross and several officials of the
socity charged with carrying ammuni-
| ton in an ambulance being executed
by the Rebels.
CHRIST CHURCH., N. T., Feb. 10
The steamer Terra Nova has arriv-
ed here, bringing every written rec
ord and the diaries of Capt. Scott and
his party, who persisted from hunger
and exposure after having reached
the South pole.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13-At a
dinner given last night, in commemo-
ration of Lincoln's birthday, Presi-
dent Taft paid a tribute to the mar
tyred and closed with an attack upon
the Progressives, whom he hoped
would see the error of their way and
return to the ranks of the Republican
party.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13-Theodore
Roosevelt addressed the National
Progressive Club, at it's Lincoln day
celebration. He stated that what he
most dreaded, but which must not
be, is any compromise or yielding on
the part of the Progressives. The
Colonel repeated that the decision of
the Idaho court in sending to Jail the
editors of the Capitol News for con-
tempt, in printing his attack upon
that tribunal, was an outrage upon
the state and Union.
TRENTON, Feb. 13-Woodrow
Wilson has announced that he will
resign the governorship on March 1.
LONDON, Feb. 13-Mrs. Ammeline
Parkhearst and other leaders mobbed
Croden and began their meeting by
attacking the crown, whose mail had
been destroyed by the suffragsttes.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 13-The
Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed
the decision of Judge landlord in the
case of Olson, of Tacoma, who had
his naturalization papers taken away
from him.
SEATTLE, Feb. 13-At an early
hour thic mOrpipo fro hrolyo ont in