Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-09
SidelightS on Mexico
.(BY A VETERAN.)

Washington, D. c., July 6.-Twenty-
five thousand Americans could cap
ture Mexico's chief places in sixty
days and a like number of United
States soldiers could hold that cOun-
try, in the opinion of an American
who has lived twenty-five years near
the west coast of our tumultuous
neighbor. HIS is civil engineer by
training, but now a farmer. He writes
to friend as follows:
81 am still on the ground, but ready
at moments notice to take to the
brush if l cannot get to my farm on
the coast.
when the Mexican authorities
were sending train north, April 25th,
F, and picking up all foreigners en-
route, l, not Wishing to leave, having
| too much to look out for, decided
would remain, so the evening the
train was expected l made myself
scarce. No, l did not have that cot
bed cached in some convenient cave.
st slept on the rocks that night, a
short time, anyway. Most of the
night l spent trying to find the soft
est place, which I finally decided was
my own body. The next day my COM
panion and I hiked it five miles fur
Their up into the hills, well, loaded with
pack, guns, and canteens, no. small
job.
! That night we slept beside big
boulder at the base of a mountain.
The next morning we climbed we'll up
the mountain and built fort. We
| hod fnVtv minimize hJ1t
had to go for it only every two days.
We were in spot where no one
would think of looking for us and a
place where any twenty men would
y have found it job to. have taken us
alive We had provisions for a week
and l knew that if the dance" were
on we could safely return before that
time.
We returned the next day as l re-
LEVIED "wireless" that the difficulty
was up for mediation.
"May 1, three torpedo boat destroy
ers slid into the bay and sent word
to all Americans to get out. I decd-
ed to get back to my old place, but
my companion thought he preferred
going hayward and my friends and
family brought such pressure to bear
on me that l went to my farm, where
l considered myself safe, as l had
three other Americans as companions
and we we're off the main line of reg
ular travel and could get next to. the
Yankee bluejacket when he came in
a three-hour hike.
"May 4, was back here and al
work. Your clippings are interesting
especially the article by Cassimiro
Rendon. You can Judge how true the
whole story is from the fact that the
fellow is not nor ever has been, gov
ernor of Sinaloa.
"The Mexicans are stepped in the
old style diplomacy; deceit, in other
words. You have noticed for several
years, just such articles appearing
from time to time. They, fearing in
PREVENTION. have tried to hide Their
own weakness by conveying to the
: American mind that intervention
would be herculean job. and that il
would take an army of 100000 mer
ten years time and millions of dollars
to subject the Mexican people. moi
counting the enormous loss of life.
:. Now, our pseudo governor indicates
,, that Intervention will find Mexico pro
/, cided with nearly 100000 defenders
that the combined armies now muster
about 10000 men: that these>s mil
lion men are drilling every day ant
have been for months; that all arr
, fully AIMED, have plenty of ammuni
Z ton and most are fairly good shots
I that the two contending factions will