The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-13
APPROPRIATION FOR
REFUGEES IN MEXICO
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efforts of President Huerta 20 obtain
the local banks capital of 100000
pesos. No definite statement has been
received here that his efforts have
been successful. There is little doubt,
however, that Huerta will get at least
a part of this money and when this Is
spent 1t is reported on good authority
that he intends calling upon the state
governments to find means for furnish
ing the central government with &c.
000,0 900 pesos.
Mr.. Lind has not sent to or received
any notes from either Washington or
Mexico recently.
Americans Ask Aid
Forty Americans in the state of Ia
basco have been forced by rebels into
the town of Frontera and are appeal
ing for boat to take them away. The
rebels are reported to have captured
and in the interior of the state. With
the exception of eight or ten, the Amer
leans in Frontera are refugees, at plan
tations which are now overrun with
rebels.
Official dispatches from Tampico say
that 800 Americans in that district have
departed as a result of the warning OF
Vera Cruz is diminishing.
Rosales Flees Mexico
On board the Ward Line steamer Mex
leo. which sailed yesterday for Tam
pico, Havana and New York, was
the constitutional governor of the
state of Hidalgo, Ramon Rosales.
Senior Rosales mad been summoned TO
Mexico City and told to ask for leave of
absence in order that he might be sub
stituted by a military governor. He said
he explained to President Huerta that
he had been legally elected to office and
asked time to think over the proposition
made to him. He is one of the richest
men in his state
The fact that Senor Rosales had come
to Vera Cruz from the capital and taken
passage on the steamer did not become
known until today. While here he told an
intimate friend he was not a revolution
ist, but feared he might be forced into
the ranks. He also said that the Mexican
government in his opinion would be finan-
cially embarrassed as soon as the recent
II 100000 peso loan is exhausted.
Bordes Mangel a member of the cham
ber of deputies, who was reported to have
been killed by federal soldiers last month
near Atzcapotalco, also sailed from Vera
Cruz yesterday on the steamer Mexico.
Mangel warm personal friend of
the late President Madero.
Celso Acosta sailed today for Europe
on the steamer Lanavarre as the spe-
cial messenger from the followers of
Cen Felix Diaz in Mexico. He bears
a communication to General Diaz who
is reported in Switzerland, concerning
political affairs in Mexico.
The Secretary of War today issued
warrants for the arrest of Ramon
Rosales. governor of Hidalgo, and Con-
gressman Bordes Mangel. 1t is be-
lieved that the warrants will reach
the port of Pregesso too late for the
men to be taken off the steamer Mex
leo at that place. 1t is said here that
the government fears that Gen. Felix
Diaz, Gen. Manuel Mondragon, former
minister of war. and Senior Acosta will
form plot to return to Mexico to-
gether, and start new revolution
A military force arrived here today
with more than a million rounds of
cartridges and will sail tomorrow on
the transport Progresso for Tampico.
Later this body of men will Join the
force of General Mas, which is oper-
ating against General Carranza.