Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-01

Her oil engines of 1850 horsepower
give her a speed of 16 knots on the
surface and 10 knots submerged. The
surface tonnage is 200. Two more
vessels of the same class are COM
plotting and work has been commenced
on the e. class, which will have I
a speed of 90 knots
The increase in the size of al. Eng
lands warships. from battleships to l
submarines. and the higher wages to 4
be paid the men is going to have 1
an appreciate effect on this years
naval estimates. which, it is believed,
viii approximate s25O.0O0, 900 an in 4
crease of nearly 90 millions over last
year
The personnel of the navy will ma
terially swell the expenditure. as it
/ tenburg, who as second sea lord, was
responsible for the recruiting and .
training, consented 10 take the posi- .
| ton of first sea lord and become
Chargeable for maintaining the fight
| ing and sea-going efficiency of the feet .
| and its organization for war, on the .
! distinct understanding that n progress .
| sive line of policy would be adopted
| forthwith in regard 10 the personnel. .
| The new estimates have also to take +
| account of the renewed competition of .
Germany and her allies of the triple
alliance.
Mexico City-That Emiiiano Zapa- /
ia has an army of more than 5000
men well drilled and we'll provided
with arms and ammunition is a story
that caused the capital to smile when
it was brought here recently by Abra-
ham Martinez, a semi-offlcial envoy
OF the government to Zapata, but
which before the end of the month
believed here that it will alter very
sideration. If the story is true, it is
believed her that it will alter very
materially the relations of the central
government and that of the rebel
whose name has spread panic through
half of Mexico, and which has been
adopted as a battle cry by thousands
who perhaps have never seen him.
Since that day more than year
yet president, met Zapata at Cuautla
|, and by inaugurating negotiations for
peace frustrated the plans of the pro-
visional government to suppress him
and his band, the government has
. from time to time INDUCED in rounda-
bout efforts to end its disagreements
with him. Martinez has played a big
, part in these negotiations. Recently
he brought to the government Zapatas
terms of peace and, although they have
= not been made public, it is known that
Zapata does not now insist upon the
resignation of Madero, but that federal
| troops be retired from the state of
| Mcrelos and that he be made the mill
tary commander of the Seventh mill
tary zone, whose headquarters is at
- Cuernavaca. He offers to furnish his
T own soldiers, guaranteeing the main
It tenance of peace.
h Martinez declares that he is con-
t WINGED of the truth of the statement
e that Zapata has an army of 5000
a. men, in addition to those numerous
y, bands which have been raiding the
y length and breadth of the states of
e Mexico, Guerrero, parts of Puebla,
J. OaXaca, and even those whose opera
h tions in the state of Morelos have
gained for them the term savages.
G. Zapata's army-that over which he
n has direct CONTROLS, according TO
h Martinez, in a region , by 40 miles
as in an isolated part of the state OF
" Morelos. There his men have been for
months doing little besides drill and
. prepare for eventualities. The drill
=, ing and organization have been done
- he says, under the general supervision
:, OF Gaudencio de la Lave, colonel
:, in the regular army who joined the re,
20 bellion.
- General Joaquin Beltran, who con
:. Quoted the campaign against General
- Felix Diaz ia era Cruz and who later
"a was made the military commander in
~ that district, has been succeeded By
-. General Velazco. Genera. Beltran was
ordered to report to Mexico City
where he was left subject to orders
u from the department of war.
II Another change that has caused
e much speculation and considerable
% gossip was the relieving of Commodore
VI Azueta Azeuta was in command OF
; the little fleet in Vera Cruz harbor
n and Diaz depended upon him for sup
5 port, but az the last he joined forces
= with Beltran to capture the rebellion:
"A general.
That the loyalty of the army as {
whole is doubted is common talk il
- clubs, cafes and in almost all public
places, and recently the Statement
was made on the floor of the lowe
N house by deputy, formerly an aid
of the president, that high Officers
- had been approached by those endeav
IL oring to incite an army uprising. Thu
statement provoked an acrid discus
sion in which the galleries took al
informal though noisy part. One depu
ty, in eulogizing the army, referred
to the recapture of Vera Cruz afte
n its occupation by Felix Diaz, and i'm