The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-17
Daily Arriving in New Or
leans En- Route TO
Coahuila
MEXICO AROUSED
AS NEVER BEFORE
R2be.sya neclaee Carfanza viii Have
/ Seventy fbosssnd sicn to Over
throw HueFfs Gent rDI-.On to
Mexico eisy Mar Csg

New Orleans, Apri IS sinitaes nio .,o-
litieal leaders from MS g We Mex
lean republic are arriving Ia New or
leans daily, most of them en- route 10
Coahuila to join Gov. venustiano carran-
"a, who has been proclaimed provisional
president by various revolutionary fac
tions now in arms against the Huerta gov
ernment.
Col. slvino NJ. Garvia. commandant af
the rurale forces of the state of zcatecas.
who arrived today, declared that carranza
would be seated as President of the re-
public by June %.
9 ON TO Mexico City, is the war cry Of
an army of 250o0 men which is now being
organized to march against the capital
said. General Huerta cannot possibly
muster one-fourth tha number of loyal
troops, which is proven by the fact that
thousands of the soldiers dispatched from
Mexico City against the constitutionalsts
of the north have declined to fight and
many of them have deserted and Joined
the ranks of the revolution"
Colonel Garcia declared that Carranza
within month would be able to mobilize
an army of 10000 men, two-thirds of which
would remain on garrison duty through
out the republic, while 5000 picked men
engaged in the campaign against the cap
ital
Mexicans Aroused
He said Mexicans are aroused as never
before as result of recent barbarties,
and the effort to establish a military gov
or ant ftfnpra ta1
dreamed of by any of Huerta's predeces-
sors." The federal troops who are still
loyal to Huerta, he said, are raiding and
burning ranches and even numbering pa
cific residents. At Sierra De Matehuapil.
in the state of Zacetecas he said, federal
troops burned all the buildings on sew
eral ranches because the rurales under
him, who revolted, were permitted to
quench their thirst at these places.
Colonel Garcia said that the state OF
Zacetecas is controlled by the revolu-
tionists under the leadership of Col Eu-
I, ladio Gutierrez.
Serapio Aguirre, member of the Mexi-
can national congress from the central
district of Coahuila, also arrived here to-
day en- route to Monclova. Coahuila, tc
Join Governor Carranza. He declared that
the consttutionalists had given their ul-
timatum to the Huerta government, which
was:
First, the immediate resignation OF
Huerta and his cabinet.
Second, the departure from the republic,
forthwith, of General Huerta, Gen. Felix
Diaz, General Mondragon and General
Banquet.
This revolution will continue" he de-
clared, until the last evidence of this ef-
fort to re-establish military government
in Mexico has been wiped out and civil
government and political justice has been
again enthroned.'
He denied emphatically that any branch
of the revolutionsts is in favor of seces-
sion. but were fighting for restoration of
the government to the people.
Mexican Political Leaders
General Emiliano zepata has recog-
nized Governor Cprranza as leader of the
constitutionalist forces in Mexico, accord
ing to a statement issued by the New
Orleans constltutionalist junta tonight.
A committe sent by General Zapata to
Governor Carranza arrived today on the
steamer City of Mexico, the statement
saws. and declares Zapata recognizes
Governor Carranza as leader of the
forces now fighting to overthrow from
power the traitor and assassin, Huerta."