Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-09
T0RRE0N TO TEST
REBEL STRENGTH
To UTMOST
Apparently Gains
Ground During Conce0tra
ton of Constituencies
Toward Mexico City.

isf aosuina JOURNAL SPECIAL 1r.sep WRIT
f Mozieo city Feb $ President iln-
erta haa succeeded 10 the pnst week,
without much fighting ia reopen'ng
Ithe lines gf communication 90 Iamplco
Fond Laredo ana between salullo ana
lTotroon. This apparent advantage D.
lcxplaincd 10 some extent iy the faci
that the rebels have received iustru
/ tons to cease operating in small bands
in those districts where they had been
lcuiting tho Hines ana join tine consti-
Ituuonalist movement near forre9t,
lthe middle districts, ana about TAM
+ pico on tho gulf coast
Tho Indications are that There viii
I be ION ia the military operations
until the rebels have supplied them
selves with additional arms and om-
munHon which are now available
from the United states and that when
Generals Cuuanzo and villa and other
rebel leaders have completed thelr
preparations Tor M advance, several
important engagements VIII be
+ fought
In the lsthmua Of Tehuantcpoe and
+ "a me adjoining regions extending
north both east ana west Of the cap
+ iml numerous rebel organizations ore
operating bui mo interest in their
Icampnigns has grown less In tho esq
lpcentlon Of developments IN The coun-
try suli further north whore both face
tons have modified large armies.
.4.fssfa.U..ft.t tsts
operations comparatively close 70 the
cnpital are directed by Gen. Juan
Francisco Lucas popularity called the
patriarch Of the sierra Indians"
These Indians control O large arc1
90 tho north and east of the capital
for the most part IN the state Of pu-
cbla. They are we'll equipped and
appear 40 be determined to 10 thcir
share in the coming operations They
have received among them force of
about 200 northern rebci0. Who sarvo
to link their movement with that con.
Quoted hy General Carunza
President lIucrn has ~ Torrcon
Go00 men and i000 az Monterey AL
Tampico The federal garrison is ape
,en,at. .. "''e 80. '.''' w. 49,
90 reinforce Tampico. Huerta has.
declared mat he will continue TO scnlI
troops to Torreon until tho garrison
there numbers 10000
thero d. mush aoubt ,.bon t,. ability
of the r,bois A. tei,o r,rrc,n
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