Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-15
It is Expected Port Will Be Opened
to All Commerce.
LA STARTS FOR sALTILLO
He Will Attack STRONGHOLD with
twenty-five Thousand Men.
REBELS IN NEED OF AMMUNITION
ChteftRin Thinks Coming Combat
VIII Practically Exhaust supply
ON Hand-Win Ask Modifi-
cation Of Embargo.

ican wnrships are again at Tampico.
Rear Admiral Badger cabled the
Navy department late today that
Rear Admiral Mayo with the Des
Moines and Dolphin steamed up the
Panuco river from the outer harbor
at IL a. m. and anchored in front OF
the town. All was quiet there, with
constitutionalists in possession.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, May H.
Details of the fall of Tampico late
Wednesday was received in an off
clal dispatch today by Colonel ].
Ricaut commander in Matamoros.
The federal force under General
zaragoza fled under cover of down
pour of rain, being followed by the
forces OF Generals Pabl and Luis
Caballero.
Gunboats Escape.
VERA CRUZ. May i4-Three Mexican
gunboats, loaded with federal soldiers,
escaped from Tampico yesterday when
eho AAah nAA0AMAoAA VI A-EON1iOHAl f~Tetl-
dent Huerta on the eastern seaboard OF
Mexico was taken by the constitutionalist
army, and rode &C anchor today under the
protecting guns Of Rear Admiral Mayo's
squadron OF American warships off
Tampico.
It is probable that among the federal
officers on the Mexican warships is the
commander whose refusal to comply with
Rear Admiral Mayo's demand for a salute
to the Stars and Stripes in reparatIon
for an insult TO the American flag pre-
cipitated the American occupation of the
port OF Vera Cruz.
With the fall of Tampico the line OF ad-
vance OF the oonstitutlonalists forces to-
ward the south has been drawn from
coast to coast and now embraces more
than half the republic OF Mexico.
Observers here express the opinion that
the taking OF Tampico by the constitution
alists forms one of the closing scenes OF
the dictatorship OF General victoriano
Huerta. They believe that his downfall
is n question only of weeks and perhaps
only OF days, while some are inclined TO
give the dictator only a few hours be-
fore his control in the federal capital
ends in possible riot and bloodshed.
HuertR is Hemmed In.
General Huerta Is now hemmed in by
the constitutionalists in the north. while
his most important seaport Is in the
hands Of American troops. and American
warships are watching both coasts.
OF all the important railroads in Mexico
only those running from the capital to
Puerto Mexico. salina Cruz and Man.
zanillo remain completely under federal
control.
Within sixty miles OF Mexico CITY
Emiliano zapata and his lawless FOL.
lowers rule the entire state of Morelos.
Farther south the Figueroa brothers
and an army OF bandits are running riot
through the state OF Guerrero.
70 the west OF the capital the railroad
to ManEanillo Is open, but American war
ships dominate the port, while TO the east
OF Mexico City, Vera Cruz has been cut
off, and with 1t the whole stretch of wild
country northward to Tampico.
According to the best information OBJ
tainable, villa is besieging San Luis Po-
toH. Y that city has not already fallen
into tAe hands OF the constitutionalists.
General Huerta therefore is fighting
with his back to a wall that offers little
defense, for rumors are everywhere cur
rent that Zapata and possibly the Fl.
guerO brothers with their followers will
combine with the victorious constitution
slists and carry out an assault on Mex
leo City from the south as General villa
drives home his attack from the north
The federal forces are being driver
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