The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-18
Ambassador Wilson Sends First Jncensored Dispatches Since dssFfANeek .to Wash ingtOn, Announcing That Rebel Leader Is Advancing Steadily With Every Pros pect of Taking Mexico City
In the Meantime Significant Orders Are Being Carried Into Effect Throughout Naval and Military Departments of United StaeS-Ten WdrShipS at Cuban Station Ordered Ready for immediate USe- -Battleshp Connecticut Sent From Brooklyn Navy Yard

ted States, stin adopting peaceful attitude was nevertheless preparing for possible war. uncens sored despatch es from Mexico City, today. gave off, oials the hope that General Dtaz would shortly control the capitol The despatchee were froms' Ambassador Wflson-the first uncensored news of i actual fighting to leak out of the be- leaguered city since Saturday night.
 Yesterday, the ambassador reported, was a continued round of conflict. during the day and part of the night I and the engagement closed with Dian advancing steadily. Wilson said ap- parently Dia.z would soon have full i control of the residential part of the city.
 Lae4 night. federal troops were re- tiring from all exposed points into the palaoe, now in command of General Blenquet-
 while high officers maintained there had been no new developments which might change this attitude, certain very sign s.1t orders were being carried in Irect throughout the ne- val and mi.-~ary establishments of the 2,Ooo marines in the east started to- ward Guantonano, but it became known that orders ha.ve been issued to station under Rear Admiral Badger To he fitted so that each could carry 200 marines in addition to its regu- lar complement. This action by the deoartment by Sunday will take this formidable force of marines six days nearer vera Crux than at present.
 At Galveston, the transports already there will be ready to receive the armys quota. one-dfth cavalry, one 6fth field artillery and three-f1fths
 Inc army staff is hard at work on maps showing every etragettc point In the country.
 If President Taft and Congress or der intervention, the battleships of the Atlantic fleet now at Guantanamo ac- companied by several supply ships and Vera Cruz The transports from Gal eston will follow with companies of in- fantry and troops of cavalry.
 Fierce fighting with enormous fed eral casualties and great damage to the city marked the battIe, Wilson said The American embassy was spent bullets struck the building, none. however, doing material damage.
 Many dead and wounded. mostly federafs. filtered the streets in front of the embassy. the ambassador de- clared. What damage has been done to the federals's stronghold he said he had been unable to ascertain although the firing was heaviest of the eight days battle so far.
 Consul General Canada was received at noon by the state department, tell ing of the influx of hundreds of Americans and other foreign refugees despatch said, are in a destirute con dftion The consul general has orga- nized relief committee which has raised money enough to feed the refu- gees for two days longer. An effort Is being made to find temporary quar- ters.
 The gravity of today's official des- patches were regarded by. state de- partment offiicals as eloquent proof from the world. Wilson's despa tches led to the belief that Diaz might still further Stren gthen his forces. today.
 Nearly all despatcfes here are de- cause Wilson is not able to file them promptly.
 phrases that Mexico City is approach
 h all this riot of disorder. disease, violence and death, reports indicate that the American embassy is the sole source of reguge for the foreigners in the city. Ambassador Wilson has es- tebIished a zone of safety. He has es- abolished his own bank, newspaper, and relief corps to care for the sick and to enforce stTictest @ sanitation at bassador, today, told Of an increasing fear of pestilence in the war-torn capitol. Dead horses ly1ng in the Of water supply, shortage Of fresh food supplies, together with the trop- ica1 climate have created a cOndlt1On favorable to an epidemic. To guard against such a contingency, the Am erfcan colony Wilson reported. today formed relief society.
 He said the danger from sickness and disease could not be too greatly acent ntuated, partially since no help could be expected from the Mexico City authorities.
 On the authority of the state de- partnent Ambass 1dor Wilson, today, opened a temporary American bank. He was given jermieEion by Secretary of State Knox to sign pronlfssory notes on this government to the sum of $10o0O for the relief of American citizens. The National Red Cross has wired him s1 ,00O, $500 to be used for the relief of destitute Americans cit lzens and $500 for the relief of wound -~ As%--A@aAA