The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-12-27
To Patrol British Honduras
Frontier to Stop 1nva-
sion of Mexico.
WILL WATCH GEN. BRlTO
Ex-Governor Of Campeche Seeks
10 start New Revolt
Against Huerta.

NNsHINGToS. Dec. 26.-B'l1sn marines
from the cruiser Hermione have been
landed at the port of Belize. British Hon.
duyas. and for the first time in history an
,xpcdition headed by British troopers is
proceeding inland in British Honduras to
patrol the border between British Hon
duras and Mexico and the border between
British Honduras and Guatemala.
This information is contaiped in pri-
yate code cablegram received to-day By
Russell Hastings Milward. fellow OF
the Royal Geographical Society OF London
and n life member of the American Museum
Of Natural History. who returned to WASH
,ngton yesterday after five months So
lourn in southern Mexico
Mr. Mllward was in Belize a fortnight
or that city OF the British cruiser Her
m ore. saying that this warshp. of 5000
tons. was the first ship of the British navy
10 succeed in reaching tine harbor OF Belize
.nce 1874. Even now. he declares. nobody
except the officers of the liermione know
now or where a passage was found over
tn. great sandbar which otherwise woulS
rave neld the Hermicne fully twelve miles
vf shore.
The Pinn Kept Quiei.
"Bui even the arrival Of the British
cruiser gave no indication of the intended
ianding Of troops and there was no in
;imat!on OF such q plan up to the time
i.n Belize" said Mr.. Millward.
1t would now appear that Great Brit
ain has adopted the same policy Of watch
iul waiting along the southern border
Of Mexico that the United States so long
mas been observing on the north. though
30 this British activity there is evidence
o. a direct interest in the movements
and purposes of Gen. Manuel Brito. ex-
Governor OF the State of Campeche. who
disappeared last June after sacking the
Bank of Yuca,an of 100000 in Mexican
currency and who recently reappeared.
Gen. Brito. travelling under an as
sumed name. landed from the steamer CO.
lombia at Belize and smuggled into the
country enough rifles and ammunition
10 load down thirty mules and to equip
mis- followers. said to number 1000 with
more than 100 rounds Of cartridges for
each man.
BritO WaitinR tO Invade.
"Brito 10 waiting only a favorable op-
portunity to cross the frontier and in-
sugurate a revolution OF his own with
the ayowed purpose Of gaining control of
me States Of Chiapas, Tabasco. Cam
peche. Yucatan and the Territory Of Quin-
pvit 10
der OF British Honduras in Guatemala.
Heretofore Guatemala and British
Honduras have offered an almost unre-
s'ricted field for the operations Of revo-
utionists in general. When one coun-
Try proved inhospitable the jump across
the border into the other was quick and
easy
Up to this time the native police of
British Honduras have operated alone
against bandits. revoutionists. psuedo
gevolutionists and their bands in the in
rcr!or, but my message of to-day indicates
an abrupt change In the policy OF Great
Britain In her colony In Central America.
Altogether the cruiser Hermone landed
800 marines at Belize. and substantial
part Of them. augmented by the native
police soldiery. have formed AN expedition
calculated TO relieve British Honduras
from the activity OF Gen. Brito particu-
.arly and Of others Of his kind.
The expedition is following the valley
Of the Hondo River on the border between
British Honduras and Mexico. there to
, torn border patrol, and then to the
'iuatemalan frontier. where the patrol
$50 is TO extend.
"lf Gen. Brito should attempt TO cross
and should be captured his fate is sealed
Requisiton Immediately would be hon.
osd and he would be turned over to the
fearest Mexican Federal General and
promptly shot"
state Department officials say that the
patrol to be established by Great Britain
along the southern Mexican border IL
without significance so far as this Gov.
'rnnent Is concerned.