Arizona republican., 1913-06-16
During the Three Months He Has Been President of Mexico He Has Made No Substantial H e a d Wa v Against the Rebels
COUNTRY PLUNGED
 IN ANARCHY
Insurrectos Have Grown Steadily Stronger-Now There is Scarcely a State Not defying the New Administration
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHl

MEXICO CITY. June 15.-In the three months General Huerta has been president of Mexico he has made no substantial headWay against the rebels acordng to the opinions of close and impartial observers of the situation in this republic Unless there is made
 radical change in the conduct of the governments campaign against it's enemies, or unless the rebels become much weaker than they are today, for eign observers believe that Huerta will have great difficulty in restoring peace
 to Mexico. As for the rebels, they
 have grown steadily stronger since General Huerta became president. and now there is scarcely a state in which their mobile columns have not been operating in defiance of the govern ments superior armament and organ izatiOn.
 The country is plunged in anarchy" said "EI Diario," q pro government paper, recently "Brigandage holds sway in a large portion of the national territory; defeated in one place, the bands reappear in another, and they carry their audacity to the point of defying the federal divisions in their headquarters. The usual expression in the local papers. however, is of a diff ferent character For the most part +hev reflect the carefully studied op- 1 timistic tone of the officers at the na- tiOna1 palace, who made much of de- feats administered here and there, and often fail to make any mention at all of rebel victories.
 The military operations of the gov ernment have been divided into three general campaigns, one in the south i against the followers of Zapata. con ducted by General Juvencio Robles; another whose center is GuaYmas. in Sonora, and the third directed from Monterey against the rebels operating in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon : and Tamaulipas. In addition to these defined campaigns the government troops are riding here and there over Q dozen states forcing their way from one point to another, only often to find, when they arrive at their des-
 tination, that the rebels have cut in behind them, or have torn the country i to pieces on either side of their line of march.
 In the south Robles promised to ex- terminate in few weeks the bandits led by Emiliano Zapata. He was in structed by the war department to use l the methods of WeYler in Cuba; to i concentrate in a few points all nOnA i combatants. and then devastate with 1 fire and cannon the remaining villages and towns. killing his prisoners, ex- cept those whose physical strength ap- ] pealed to him as material for the regu- ] lar army, but before Robles could get ] his plan under way, Zapata was at i tacking him in his headquarters. and i since then it has been an open ques- ] ton which side would be the victim 1 of the WeYler method. The region to the south already is practically devas- i tated. Haciendas on which enormous sugar crops formerly were grown are today fast returning to jungle growths. and the warfare in which the followers
 of Zapata have engaged now for all
 most three years appears to be causing l them to revert to some wild and savage 1 type.
 The Guaymas campaign began well. l General Medina Barron marched forth,
 but OnIy to return after defeat, and it
 was almost two weeks after the battle | at santa Rosa before the government
 admitted the reverse. meanwhile char 1 acterizinG untrue the press dis patches from the border.
 The campaign directed from Monte ley has resulted in the recall of Gener- al Trucy Aubert who, apparently, was unable to suppress the rebels under command of Nenustiano CarranZa or l even to retake and reopen the railroad between Monterey and Laredo, Texas His successor has done no better The rebels have extended their field of op
 erations until small towns from the gulf coast to Chihuahua are entered seemingly. almost at will.
 Conditions in the central states are little if any better. In it's desire to clear up the border situation" and
 open the railroads in order that the l United States may have a higher opin-
 ion of the general situation. the gov
 ernment has confined most of its ener-
 gieS to the two northern campaigns.
 Opposed to the rebels is the army of Huerta, more numerous organization 1 than any Mexico has ever seen. But
 in it's ranks as volunteers are thous
 ands of men 'recruited' from the jsils
 of the country and from prisoners cap l tured in battle. The recent success of Continued on Page F'tve)