Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-05-05
HUERTA'S reign
IS NEARING end
Fall of Dictator Is Consider
ed Certain by Mexico
City People.
KEEPS TRAIN READY
Afraid of Attack, Special Has Been
Standing for Week, But Fear
of Rebels Has Prevented
Flight.
(BY n. A. JENNlNGS)


Mexico City Thy courier to Vera
Cruz and dispatch boat to Galvcston)
Nav 4.-Whether or not Washington
considers that war is Oh with Mexico
is a question for the diplomates to
decide but the people OF this capital
can decide it. for themselve without
the shadow of a doubt. The United
States may not be at war with Mexico
but Mexico is certainly at war with
the United States and, according to
the newspapers, there is organization
of an invading army to march
through Texas and capture a large
portion of hated Yankee land.
Ever since the news came here that
the United jtates marines had landed
in Vera Cruz and taken the city by
the sea- the people have been in
frenzy of excitement and their patrl-
otto fevor has been wrought up to
the highest pitch by the local press.
Stories have been published OF how
the Yankees have wantonly slaught-
cred women and children in Vera
Cruz until the streets ran red The
killing of some cadets in the naval
school at the seaport has been char
acterized as murder most foul and
damnable of the Child heroes" as
the naval cadets were called. The
fact that the infantile martyrs were
blazing away at the marines with
Mauser rifles is considered no ex
cuse whatever for the marines shoot
ing at them.
Cry For Blood.
Every since Tuesday, April %, great
mobs have been tramping through
the streets of the capital, yelling
Death to the Yankees" death to
the gingoes." The mobs have formed
early in the morning and kept it up
far into the night, stoning American
places of business, looting American
stores, assaulting Americans caught
unawares, dragging the Stars and
Stripes through the streets, pulling
the American flag down on the muddy
asphalt and trampling over it While
the national hymn Oh Mexico was
sung, insulting American women
foully, doing everything they could
think of to show their hatred OF the
"vile pigs OF the northern republic"
With all this going on and Huerta
calling on the people to rise and
drive the invaders from Mexican soil,
there has been and is decided
undercurrent of feeling against
Huerta and his government, and the
best citizens, the bankers and merch-
ants as well as many members OF the
chamber of deputies aid the senate,
are saying that the days of the dicto-
on6 that his fHIi
| is certain in the near future.
| Sir Lionel Garden, the ritish min
lister, has brought great pressure to
bear on Huerta and in this has been
backed by all the other members OF
the diplomatic corps of the capital,
| but to all the arguments the old man
| turns a deaf ear.
| Is Afraid To Flee.
1t is an undoubted fact, however,
| that a train has been kept in waiting
for him for. nearly week to take
| him to Manzanillo. He might nave
| gone on this train, but for the fact
| that he has been so closely watched
by the rebels and knows 1t. His body-
guard has been doubled and he can
not make a move th2. a score or
more of secret service men are not
| close to him and alert for an attack.
He is trying now to make comDl-
nation with the rebels, both north ana
south, but apparently with little or
no success.
The rebels know that it is mercy a
question OF a short time when Huerta
will have no support whatever ana
they prefer to capture aad execute
him to making any sort OF deal with
him.
Might Order Massacre.
If Huerta is driven to the wall ne
NAV commit any excess, and even
| hA"J SO
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