Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
u. S. TROOPS Off
TO SEIZE FLEEING,
HUERTA GENERALS
One Civilian Accompanying
Military Fugitive Carries
S2,500,000 in Cash.

Ell PASO, Dec. 4.--With orders to
arrest all Mexican Federal officers
who attempt to cross the border. a
squadron of the Fifteenth Cavalry has
been sent to Preside. across from
Ojinaga, Mexico. the point toward
which the three Huerta generals, 1000
Federal troops and 1000 men. women
and children who left Chihuahua are
fleeing, pursued by General Villas
| troops.
General Luis Terrazas, an aged cap
italist of Chihuahua, is said to be
carrying with him s2.500,000 in cash;
and this is one reason why General
| Villa is trying so hard to head off
the fleeing column.
Among the fugitives also are Gen
eral Mercado, military governor of
the State OF Chihuahua; General
orozco and General salazar, the last
two of whom are now under lndict-
ment in the United States for viola
tion of the neutrality laws.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4.-Issulng an
other defiance of President Wilson,
Gen. Huerta, In commenting on the
latters message to Congress, today
declared that he meant to keep on
fighting.
II have no intention of yielding" ="
he said. Should this fighting in
Mexico continue for years. l shall con-
tinue to do my part in 1t If I am
alive"
He maintained that enforced loans
would keep him we'll supplied with
sufficient money to carry out his
Nil ms nd N ha do mil rttVN
as long as he can get American oil.
| JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 4.-Gen. VII
la, on his way to Chihuahua today
with 1000 soldiers, is jubilant over
| the fight of the Huerta forces from
that city and promises to invest Mex
leo City by Christmas.
! BY that time he expects the rebel
army to number 10000, and the COM
bined forces will attack the capital.
While looting by isolated bands or
confiscation of property by the reb-
els may continue, the days of fighting
in northern Mexico are numbered, so
far as the present revolution is con-
cerned, according to opinions ex-
pressed by rebel leaders today.
Northern Mexico bankrupt.
General Francisco Villas assertion
| liidL llltIt was liOl illlIii W
| fight for in the north because of the
bankrupt condition of the Federal
army, which caused it to evacuate
so important q city os Chihuahua,
has spread among the rebels.
| What most Immediately concerns
the so-called Constitutionalist party
now Is the elaboration of its civil
government. This embraces a more
systematized customs to be enforced
along the border The rebels hold
all the important border towns ex-
cept Nueva Laredo and Piedras Neg
ras, opposite Eagle Pass. There re-
mains also to be put in force a uni
form currency system for now rebel
and Federal currency are in conflict,
one kind being acceptable in one
place and another kind in another.
Rebel postage stamps already are in
use Many governors and State Of
ficials are to be selected.
The settlement of the civil questions
Is one reason why Villa has asked
| General Carranza to meet him at
Chihuahua. Sylvestera Terrazas, a
newspaper editor in Chihuahua, who
is not related to the wealthy Terrazas
| family, has been selected for governor
of the State Villa expects to leave
| to Carranza the task of establishing
civil government, devoting himself to
| the military campaign southward to-
wards Mexico City.