The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-02-20
RESUME FIGHT AGAIN
ARMIES BEGIN BATTLE TO TIE
FINISH WITH RENEWED
FIERCENESS.
HAD MADE A 24-HOU2 TRUCE
Federal Army, Back in Position, Be-
gins sombardment of Rebels
President Madero to See
Wal Through.

Mexico City, Feb. 1S.-Hostilities
have been resumed with renewed
~ierceness in the Mexican capital, af-
ter a truce which lasted, only a few
hours.
Armistice Soon Broken.
The armistice, signed at 2 o'clock
Sunday by the represent ltives OF both
sides, agreeing to suspend operations
for "a hours, was broken after a few
hours. Soon the sound of heavy can
~nonading and the whirr of machine
guns announced the return of the fed
eral troops to their posts in front OF
the arsenal.
1t appears as if the words Of Ma
dero and DiGz might prove prophetic
and that this time the battle would be
TO a finish.
Reiterates Refusal.
President Madero has reiterated his
refusal to comply with the suggestion
of the senators that he resign. He de-
clared that he was still able to dom
crush the rebel forces.
General DiaZ had not shown himself
to be greatly in favor of the armistice,
but consented to it out of respect for
the efforts OF the American ambassa-
dor and the ministers of the powers to
bring about a cessation of hostilities
until foreigners and other non-combat-
ants still within the zone of the fight
ing, could be removed to a position of
comparative safety.
Diaz regarded the truce as merely a
delay in the accomplishment of his
fixed purpose to drive Madero out o.
the presidency.
Favorable to Rebels.
The fighting Saturday undoubtedly
went in favor of the rebels, who re-
sisted all assaults against them, re-
ceived into their ranks several hun
dred federal deserters, and obliged
the federal commanders to admit that,
for the present at least, the rebel DO
sition was impregnable.
General Huerta, the commander of
the government troops, a hard fighter,
who has been through many cam
paigns, also was opposed to the arms
tice, and chafed under the terms
which it imposed upon him. Nor did
he willingly agree to the sending Of a
large body Of his forces back to the
federal base near the national palace.
Exasperating Attitude.
President Madero's attitude was one
of evaporation, but as he had request,
ed the American government to with.
hold intervention. he could do no less
than consent to an armistice, when
the question was submitted directly to
him. But he let it be known, without
equivocation, that he was determined
to retain the presidency.
The American ambassador and the
German minister called upon the presi-
dent and upon General Huerta and
asked that the military dispositions of
the government forces should be so ar
ranged as to render unnecessary the
firing over the residential quarter, that
a free zone be fixed and that the gov.
eminent unite with the American com.
mittee in the establishment of centers
for the distribution of food to the poor
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General Diaz, Professionally.
There is little actual suffering from
$4,000 Fire in Zion City.
Zion City, H., Feb. 1.-THE anti
tobacco law of Zion City, one of the
sternest ordinances of the Zionist
creed. was violated here at the cost OF
a $4,000 fire. Two boys smoking Gig.
arettes set fire to a pile of shavings
beside the flour mill and the struc.
ture was destroyed. Wilbur Glenn
Voliva, successor to John Alexander
Dowie, founder of Zion City, was
preaching in the tabernacle when the
fire started. He ordered every man
in the congregation to the fire, but all
the hydrants were frozen and there
was nothing to do but watch the cost