Imperial Valley press., 1913-04-28
HUERTA'S DOWNFALL PREDICTED

WASHINGTON, Apr. 2S.-There is
an increasing feeling here that the
progress of the revolution in Mexico
will soon develop a situation that will
result In the downfall of Huerta. The
maps that are kept in the office of
the General Staff Of the United States
army, with their pins of blue and red
showing the positions of the regular
and revolutionary forces, are day by
day working out an alignment that is
gradually closing in on the City of
Mexico and crowding the regulars
back into territory where sooner or
later they~will be cut off from all
communication with the outside world.
wireless telegram today from
Rear-Admiral Usher, in comamnd of
the special squadron at Tampico,
states that while conditions there are
practically unchanged. there are con-
sistant rum ors of an attack on the city.
The General commanding the Mex
lean government forces has assured
Admiral Usher that there Is no danger
Of attack. Points in the interior and
- the coast are continually hearing
alarming rumors of an advance of the
evolutionary forces.
Dispatches from United States Con-
suls at various point salong the coast
are 10 the effect that all mail com
municatio with the interior of Mex
leo seems to be cut off TO the north
of Vera Cruz.
Consul Hanna at Monterey states
that the last mail from the United
States received there was on April
10 and the last from Tampico was IN
the sixteenth. Mails from the City of
Mexico are received irregularly, but
there have been none from elsewhere
in the interior for the past two weeks.
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 2s.-General
Pedro Ojeda and eighteen members of
his staff, all that remains of his army
of 500 men, came to Los Angeles yes
terday afternoon on their way to Mex
ico They are at the Hollenbeck hotel.
The general started some month ago
from Mexico City with an army of 500
to conquer the state Of Sonora. He was
defeated and driven across the United
States border line.
General Ojeda said last night: After
Huerta gave me orders to march into
Sonora, l took all the men tha. could
be had in Mexico City and started to
invade Sonora. I feel that I have done
my duty and but for the lack of am
munition I would have swept the
state"
The eighteen men who are with the
general are members of his personal
staff. The few of the troops who re-
mained are still in Ell Paso. The
Angeles for two or three days and then
go to San Diego.
General Ojeda would give no state
ment as to the condition of the HUI
erta party in Mexico. IT have done my
best and my country will thank me-" is
all that the general will say.
Mrs. Pedro Ojeda and her four
children are with the general.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 2S.-The report
that Mexico is preparing to cede to the
United States all of Lower California
and the states bordering on the Rio
Crande-Sonora, Chihuahua, Coachuila,
Nuevo Leon and Tamulpias--upon the
payment of $3.O00,0O0 is characterized
as pure fiction" by the state depart
ment officials.
Absolutely nothing is being done
by the United States for the acqui-
sition Of additional territ ory,' said one
official.
Certain Americans with large inter-
ests in some of the northern Mexican
states, it is said by officials of the ad
are responsible for the ere-
port.