The Dickinson press., 1914-05-30

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partment Of war and marine has
charge Of all military affairs. The
secretary of war and marine Is the
representative In the cabinet.
Military Administrator.
For purposes Of military ~administra-
ton the republic is divided into ten
military zones and three commander
les. All are in constant touch with the
department Of war and marine. The
ministry Of war and marine IS divided
into nine-bureaus or sections, each OF
which has special charge of q given
branch Of military administration.
These sections are special stan corps,
department Of engineers, department.
Of artillery, department Of the navy,
sanitary and hospital service, depart
ment Of infantry, department Of cav
airy, military Justice, archives and IL
brary, auditing and administration.
The military Communicates r es-
tablished at the City Of Mexico, Vera
Cruz and the port Of Acapulco, in the
state Of Guerrero.
Mexico possesses the following es-
Establishments for the manufacture Of
war material, oil of them subject to
the war department: General artillery
stores. artillery workshops. IN arms
factory. an artillery foundry. a powder
factory. a cartridge factory and a ma
tional arsenal. There has recently
been opened for operation also a facto-
ry and laboratory for the manufacture
Of smokeless powder. according to the
most approved methods.
A Fine Military Academy.
The educational establishments are
the Military academy at Chapultepec,
the Academy Of As%pirantes, a naval
academy at Vera Cruz, a college Of
practical military surgery, a veterinary
college, a college of military bugle
calls and a school connected with the
artillery workshops. In addition there
are schools in all the barracks for the
instruction Of the soldiers In the rudi-
ments of general knowledge.
The Military academy at Chapulte-
pee ranks high among the establish
ments Of its kind throughout the
world. The course of its studies for
officers Of infantry, cavalry and tactt-
cal artillery is three years and for off,
GERS Of the staff corps technical artil-
lery and the corps of engineers seven
years.
Has Few Vessels In Navy.
Mexico has not burdened itself with
the heavy expense Of a large modern
navy. The few vessels which she pos
sesses are destined for purposes of in.
struction, coast guard service and
transport. Those vessels are the trans
port and gunboat General Guerrero, re-
Gently built for the Mexico government
in England, the gunboats Vera Cruz.
Bravo, Morelos, Democratic and Tam
pico: the transport Progreso and the
corvets Zaragosa and Yucatan, train
ing ships.
President Wilson gave careful con
sideration for some time to the other
alternative to intervention-the lifting
of the embargo against importation Of
arms from the United States into Mex
leo, thereby giving the Constitutional
lists the opportunity they sought, to dem
onstrate whether they could s%traighten
out Mexico's tangled affairs.
What deferred this government was
its uncertainty as to the ability Of Cen
eral Venustiano Carranza and his Con-
s~titutionalist followers to establish a
stable and lawful government and to
maintain 1t. To determine this was
the purpose of the missions Of Dr..
William Bayard Hale and Governor
Hunt Of Arizona, who unoficially in
vestigated the claims Of the Consitu-
~tionalists. FIN
In view Of the dilatory tactics ap-
parently adopted by Huerta, the pres
ident FASTENED these reports from spe.
cial investigators. It was his. evident
purpose to get all Of his facts in hand
before he announced his policy either
to the foreign governments or to con-
gress.
While President Wilson expressed
disapproval in his August message Of