Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-19
CHAOS REIGNS
IN SOUTHERN
REPUBLIC
ALTHOUGH SITUATION IS VERY BAD,
IMPRESSION IS GAINING GROUND
THAT HUERTA'S OVERTHROW
WOULD Be sure AND PRECiPI-
TATE ANOTHER REVOLUTION.
HOW THE MEXICAN
ARMY IS RECRUITED

Mexico City, July l9.-Only tn
conviction that the retirement o
President Huerta means the elevation
of another revolutionist and tn,
plunging of their country into great
er depths of hopelessness, prevents
thousands of representative Mexican
business men from uniting in peti
! tion to the existing administration tC
yield. Many of these business mel
| believe that only foreign Intervention
can restore, peace, but expression OF
1 such opinions is not popular and are
made guardedly or with due reserva
/ ton. Overthrow of Huerta by any OF
the rebellious forces probably would
mean succession to the presidency of
Carranza, Maytorena or Obregon OF
other leaders possessing no universal
I following such as could be depended
on to stop rebellion.
Late in June plan was advanced
by Manuel Calero, former Ambassa-
dor to the United States. Jesus Flores
Magon and Jorge Vera Estanol, for
mer cabinet members, to unite upon
candidate for the presidency agree
able to loyal citizens and rebels. This
suggestion had for its weakness the
assumption that rebels in the field
would not assent to anything but the
overthrow by force of arms of what
they term usurpins administration.
The scheme fell of it's own weight.
The failure of the government to
make any headway in Sonora against
the rebels the daring displayed by
bands, which captured Zacatecas and
Durango. capitals of adjoining states
and raded with impunity the coun-
try and smaller towns; the occupation
or blockading of all the border ports
of entry and the steady and swift
growth of the movement throughout
the republic has created even at the
national palace spirit of pessimism
easily perceptible. Huerta and his
betrayed their despond
ency by concentrating all efforts on
the National railroad from
lieved that if this line could be open
ed the effect abroad might be such as
to enable them to market bonds for
which foreign bankers were given op-
tions, and Huerta's forces could thus
pyolong the fight. The campaign
IS ainst Matamoros was practically
abandoned, in order to use all avail
/ Bile troops along the railroad.
Enforced service has provided
Huerta with an army of perhaps $4,000
r1en, but of such character that gov"
commanders dare not detach
small bodies of troops for scouting or
,ther work. Bugle calls might not
trng the detachments back to their
camps.
The army has been recruited by
by emptying the jails and
Utilizing prisoners captured in battle. !
These men are rushed into service and |
gathered until far from the I
places of their enlistment, so as to
.revent wholesale desertions. 1t wa1
With such body as this General
)ieda was compelled to operate in his
out of Guaymas.
Rebels under Smiliano Zapata ap-
cared fully as active early this
his month as in months past, and
ally incursions of the federal district
self were common. The raiding OF
property or village almost within
light of the national capital and tales
atrocities had ceased to excite con. +
prn. ,
An incident that illustrates some
hat the apathy of the people gener :
l)y occurred recently in village in q
he state of Guanajuato. Rebels raid.
the place and carried away from q
,e Mresisting male population prac- /
cally all the women. The men draft. $
{ petition to the president of the t
public to send sufficient soldiers 10 Il
)und up the rebels and restore to
,em their captured wives, sisters and 7
veethearts. The number of males in T.
lat town was greater than the num- t
sr of rebels who raided the place. a
Two rebel leaders of minor import C
ace in the state of MOrelos recently a
st their lives in manner rather
for men whose careers Il
i'd been as stirring as their. With n
eir men they made what turned out Il
be their last fight in a church. The p
derals had penned them in and then Ii
sgan battering at the doors. O
One of the men seized priests n
be and when the soldiers gained en- u
ance they found him kneeling be-
re one of the shrines. The pseudo a
lest was dragged from his knees, and o
S identity revealed. He was shot O
The other rebel had sought safety c.
crypt. Lifting the stone slab he e.
rev out the crumbling bones of the t.
cupant for more than hundred o
ars, crawled into the space himself d
I'd lifted the stone back into place. h
1e bones beside the crypt excited the s.
riosity of the soldiers, who exam CT
ed the interior. The living occu. W
mt became eligible forthwith for
al interment. "a