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.HoERTAPLANS TO
HOLD ON FOR YEAR
b Act Of Dictator Approved
by Mexican Congress-
ARE CENSORED
Epresses News of Defeats and Is
Eo&ermined to Continue Absolute
way Over Military Affairs.

] exico City, Dec. 5. = Provisional
ident Huerta accepts the congress
1ftslal endorsement of his action in
yfng for an army of 100000 men as
q aplete approval of his course in de.
'ylg the United States.
Vdicials of the government were
= f6ed that he would continue to ex.
y jse for one year his powers as die
Tor relating to measures for war.
E<6se were part of the powers which
M seized when he dissolved the old
E5Gress and assumed complete die
I orship.
Gongress is in full accord with
3sident Huerta," said one OF the
Hfnet ministers 1T realizes that he
doing everything possible for the
eifcation of the country.
The revolution in the north would
6bably have been crushed long ago
supplies not been sent across the
f9der to the so-called Constitutional
n. The embargo by President Will
"a was joke. At all times the rebels
We been able to get supplies.
#sGeneral Huerta is a Mexican pa
&f6t. He will die before he will sur
der to the enemies of his country"
5nvery act of Huerta as dictator has
W- been approved by congress, and
Is safe from prosecution on the
Hge of usurping power. From le-
etandpoint he has made his posi-
II secure, but the blows dealt to
= generals in the north and rebel
Itivity in the south indicate that the
|St is slowly but surely enmeshing
The government supplies are dwind-
Nc daily. If Huerta succeeds in col
&cting 100000 men for his army he
III be unable to provide many of
fem with equipment.
kHuerta dclared that the country was
<lfsupporting, and that forced loans,
made necessary. would enable him
resist indefinitely. So long as he
Ens able to obtain American oil he
n not regard the shutting off Of ma
1Fe oil from the railways as vital.
Constitutionalist troops began q
|1mbardment of Mazatlan, the chief
Iexfcan port on the Pacific coast.
hey opened q rife fire on the city
|te Wednesday. killing forty-five Fed
Eo1s and five non-combatants and
0rfng the night posted their cannon
q the hills about the city. At dawn
lse1e poured shellsr into the city and
ITO the harbor about the Federal
Tampico and Guerrero.
Az soon as the bombardment OPEN
4, General Resgado, the Federal
ordered all the citizens to
ave. as the gunboats were about to
eply to the rebel fire. The boats guns
ave only a short range and their
hells are likely to fall into the city.
Coxcatlan, state Of Puebla, was cap
1red by the Zapatistas. Thirty per-
ons. mostly women and children.
1ere killed. A priest was shot to
cath.
The government has ordered news
apers to publish no details of military
lovements, excepting Information OBJ
lined from official sources. AS the
My official news given out consists
{ reports of Federal victories, this
rder means that the public Is not to
9 Informed of any of the reverses
'hich have become 80 frequent.
Anxiety among the Americans in In
reaeing. They fear that when Huerta
nds himself unable to resist the
lows of the rebels he will incite the
ywer classes against citizens of the
|nited States in the hope Of inter-
ention, which he thinks would rob
10 Constitutionalists of the fruits of
hoir victories.