Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-10
REBEL ATTACK ON !
TAMP|CO IS NEAR;
WARN Foreigners
Admiral Fletcher Invites All
NOn=COmbatants to Shelter
of u. S. Fleet.
GENERALS VILLAREAL AND
CASTRO HEAD INVADERS
German Captain Offers to Aid
Efforts of American Naval
Commander.

VERA CRUZ, Dec. 1O.-An over
| whelming force of rebels threatens
to attack Tampico at any moment
according to advices received by wire-
less telegraphy this morning from
/ Clarence A. Miller, Americsn consul
at that seaport.
! A messenger from General Villa
real, the rebel commander. reached
/ the American consulate in Tampic1
last night with the information that
! 1000 rebels commanded by Generals
I Villareal and Castro were approach-
1 ing the city. The rebel advance
guard it was said was at Laguna
| Puerite, nine miles from Tampico.
] General Villareal declared his in
tention of assaulting the city with
the least possible delay He said he
had given his followers strict orders
to refrain as far as possible from de-
struction of property and rc protect
the lives of foreigners, but he feared
| they would be gravely imperilled in
| the attack on the city and the con-
sequent fighting In the streets For
| this reason he earnestly requested the
+, American authorities to take imme-
| date steps to remove all foreign resi-
dents from the place
Fletcher Ready 10 Take All Aboard.
j Up to the time of the dispatch Of
Consul Miller's advices no definite ac-
! ton had been taken on this request
/ but Rear Admiral Frank f. Fletcher.
commander of the United States fleet.
| had made preparations to take all
/ foreigners on board his vessels at
moments notice and to land marines
| If 1t appeared advisable.
/ II ,1.,.. l,a4 -.
| of the German cruiser Bremen con-
ferred with Rear-Admiral Fletcher
/ on the question of landing marines
and courteously assured the Ameri-
| can admiral that he would act in
! harmony win his desires.
! WASN'T NGTON, Dec. 10.-The plac-
ing of the scaut cruiser Chester and
the gunboat Wheeling at Tampico
yesterday was intended by the navy
| TO meet Just such an emergency as q
| rebel attack on the city.
| The Chester and Wheeling. ships Of
1 light Draft, with the Tacoma and the
supplysShip Culgoa, also at Tampico.
H can approach near enough to the city
/ to take off Americans and other for
| eigners who may be endangered,
while the battleships Rhode Island
and Michigan are obliged, because of
| their great displacement, to lie seven
and eight miles out to sea.
U. $. ships Are Sufficient.
/ Officials feel that the American
| ships now there are sufficient to af-
| ford refuge to all who may seek it,
| in case of fighting. Rear admiral
| Fletcher, aboard the Rhode Island.
| is in command of the situation. His
! last reports stated he had received
/ "a hn jn11Qf~
lists generals that they would respect
foreign property, which consists prin-
| cipally of oil and tank lines, mostly
British and American owned.
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Nullifica-
| tion of the recent elections by the
Mexican Congress and ratification OF
Huerta's provisional presidency to
/ continue until other elections are
held, probably next July. oceasioned
no surprise among officials here.
/ Reports reaching the state depart-
ment say that before the elections
! lists of congressman drawn from
among the Huerta supporters were
sent out with virtual orders for their
| election. Diplomatically the situation
was unchanged today.
l.. JUAREZ, Mexico Dec. 10.-Events
/ today Indicated tnat OJlnaga, some
| times called Presidio del Norte, the
small Mexican village on the border
opposite Presidio, Texas, would be
| the scene OF the next important move
/ in the Mexican revolution.
| Rebel leaders were more than ever
convinced that Ojinaga. where the
! Federal troops have concentrated,
cannot be ignored by General Fran
cisco Villa. Within the town are
fortified practically all the Federal
troops of the north, with most of
their important generals. Their re-
treat thither avowedly was to obtain
money and provisions. because in the
interior they had been without pay
and were on the verge of famine.
Reprovisioned and provided with
money the Federals are in position
to renew hostilities.
Should he determine to attack the
Federals in force. General Villa, now
at Chihuahua City. would have to
check temporarily his advance south
ward toward Torreon, but 1t would
be In line with his plan to leave only
rebel territory behind him in his
southwark march.
The rebel forces about Ojinaga ara
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