Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-04

| loans, IL IltQG HGNtSSetiS, WYNN NAAS'S-
him to resist Indefinitely. So long as h
was able to obtain American oil he DID
not regard the shutting off of native Of
from the railways as vital
The message delivered by Presiden
Wilson to Congress at Washington, yes
teSday, is briefly outlined but promf
nently displayed by all the Spanish
morning newspapers The only paper
pinted in English, however, buried il
on an inside page. In commenting OF
the message the Independence. which /:
controlled by the government. says:
1.-The man at the White House ha:
dared to affirm against the truth univer
sally conceded, that Provisional Presi
dent Huerta is losing sympathy, every
| day, and that his fall is to be expected
1t is hardly believable that President
Wilson would have the temerity to assert
such thing, thereby giving testimony
of his bad faith towards things Mexican
The rear admiral in command of the
British cruisers in Mexican waters,
! Sir Christopher Craddock, was enter
tanned at dinner, last evening, by the
German minister to Mexico, Admiral
| Paul Won Hintze. Nelson Onslaught
messy, the American charge d'affaires,
also was a guest.
The seaport city of Tampico was,
today, officially declared the tempo
rary capital of the State of Tamauli-
pas. General Antonio Rabago, the
military governor, who was forced to
| abandon Ciudad Victoria and who was
enormously reported to have commit
! ted suicide, has gone to Tampico I'M
der orders of the government to re-
establish his governorship of the state
in the temporary capital. The war
| department, today, announced that
! Gen. Arizmendi and other Federal Off
GERS who fled from Ciudad Victoria to
! Carrites, in the state of San Luis
! Potosi, had been ordered to recognize
| their force and march again upon
! Victoria. This task had been entrust-
/ ed at first to Gen. Rubio Navarrette,
who is now in Monterey, to which
place he retreated after his failure to
relieve the hard pressed garrison of
Victoria.
AS though in reply to the statement
made in Paris by General Perfirio
Diaz had been transferred from the
retired list to the active list, on
Sept. 20.
on account of the nature of the or
ganization of the equipment, OF the
long distances, and of the broken to-
Biography of the country, the Federal
government will find it difficult TO
! handle it's various military expeditions
without trains now that the railroads
1 have been practically deprived or oil
4 fuel by the oil producing companies.
| On some of the divisions of the rail-
| road system, coal may be used ana
/ sufficient supplies of that fuel are In
! existence to operate the trains 1or
| sometime, but at the best 1t is prop
able. unless unforeseen circumstances
arise. that traffic other than military
trains will be suspended soon.
Reliable news as to the military opera
lions in various parts of the republic Is
very meagre in the Federal capital ana
what little there is does not favor the
/ government.
/ Telegraphic communication along the
1 line of the National Railroad has been
I re-established but it is understood that
this has been done with the consent OF
the rebels, as they are known to domi-
nate the line to the south of Saltillo and
! TO within IS miles of San Luis Potost
| consular report received here from
| SaltilIo reveals the fact that the resi-
! dents of that city are kept in ignorance
/ of the military operations in progress
in the surrounding country on account OF
the interrupted Geographic communica-
ton.
! Extraordinary methods continue to be
| resorted to in order to secure recruits
for the Federal army. The servant girls
of the Federal capital display marked
caution when they appear on the streets
as they are aware that scores of their
fellow servants have been drafted into
the army as soldiers.
one trick utilized by the recruiting Of
ficers netted the Federal army TO con-
scripts in a single batch. The bills post
ed outside moving picture show an
nouneed that the exhibition was "foI
men only" The little room was crowded
! some time before the performance be-
gan. A series of ordinary pictures was
| thrown on the screen, the first of them
| being one of the Virgin of Guade-
| loupe." the patron saint of Mexico. The
crowd of men greeted this good natured-
ly, but when it was followed by pic
| ture of 1.-The Lords Supper" and this
was succeeded by THE Crucifixion,' the
men who had looked for a different kind
of entertainment started an uproar
which resulted in a raid by the police
who marched off the majority of the men
to the barracks, where they were at once
placed in the ranks of the army.
Preparations for defence in case of To-
cal disturbances are being continued by
the various foreign colonies other than
the Americans in the federal capital. The
! leaders of the American colony are in
| clined to believe that any move in that
| direction taken by them would be likely
to be misconstrued by the Mexican gov
| eminent and it is understood that in or
| der to avoid being regarded as organized
! combatants the Americans in case oil
necessity will take refuge beneath the
protection of the various European flags