Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-21


ing and finding all the machinery set
In action and Intervention about to be
accomplished. Congress must be heard
from first.
With seven battleships on the east
coast Of Mexico, two cruisers and q
third on the way thither and three
cruisers and auxiliaries on the west
coast or en- route and more In reserve
1t will be simple for the navy to fulfill
Its part Of the programme. Tampico
Vera Cruz, Campeche, Progreso. Pu-
erto. Mexico and perhaps one or two
other ports will be seized and block
AIDED without difficulty on the Atlantic
side. Guaymas. Mazatlan, Salina Cruz
will be the principal ports to be held
and guarded on the west coast.
On the border Matamoras, Neuvo
Laredo. Piedras Negras. Juarez No
gales, will be occupied. together with
their railroad and telegraph commu-.
nications. Forces will be advanced
southwark from the border and west
ward from Vera Cruz toward Mexico
City and capitals will be seized as rap
idly as the advancing forces can make
their way. e
This advance will be governed more
hv tha stafs ~ rai,road oonmunica.
tions than by the opposition Of Mexi-
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American forces will begin the work
of disseminating themselves TO the
more remote localities. for the double
purpose of stamping out the raiding
bands and affording protection to for
eigners and their properties. It Is not
expected that this will be done In q
day or a month, for there Is no doubt
that at the. outset considerable bodies
Of MEXICAN troops win confront the
American forces. tt..g
Huerta claims now to have an army
of 80. 900 men. 1t is believed here that
he actually has not more than two
thirds of that number Of soldiers, and
that not more than quarter Of these
could easily be assembled into an ar
my IN any Ouc VihScs
Is In the war with Mexico the Amer
lean forces habitually. IN an unbrcken
series Of victories. defeated forces
three and four times or their own
number. Army officers see no reason
why these performances could not, at
least In a measure, be repeated. Thus
it is believed that the effective mill
tary force of the Mexican government
could be broken and disipated In
comparatively brief period, with Dut
few battles worthy OF the name.
Carranza claims for the Constitu-
tionalists $4,000 men under arms.
When all Mexico has been under arms
for nearly three years. army officers
here, with definite reports to guide
them, do not credit these revolution
lists with more than half that number
of soldiers. Their forces are even more
widely scattered than those Oh the
Federals. and are not organized. A
junction Of forces is not considered
likely, on the principle that tine Mex
lean hates his countryman more than
he does the Yankee by reason OF old