Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-08
GEN. BLANCO
NIPS REVOLT
IN THE BUD
Hero OF Matam0roS Proves Equal TO Oc-
Casion In Mexico City When 1000 OF
Huerta's Police Came Dangerously Near
Causing New Outbreak in Capital
HAD TROUBLE WELL IN HAND
WITHIN A FEW HOURS
Frank Rabb and Edwin S. BrOdx Declare
That Man Who Captured MatamOrOs ir
Revolutions Early Days is Proving
Himself Man OF The Hour"


The inside story IF the recent trouble
in Mexico City when ronStitHtionali>t
soldiers and police FLASHED. with the re-
suit Of twenty-five killed and many
wounded, il brought to the border by Col
lcctur ~ Customs Frank sahl. Edwin =
Brudix and Mexican Consul !. n. t;arza.
who have just returned To the city after
a three weeks tour ~ Mexico. with =
stay Of ten days IN The capital
Al 1 o'clock. Thursday afternoon. Aug.
uSt ~. shots rang out near the head.
quarters of General LuciO Blancn. Five
hours later. or IA = o'clock. four thunS-
and police who had served under Gen.
cral IIuerta and who had been retained
BY the cOnsiituti0naliStS. had been di>
armed aud relieved of their uniforms
and their places filled hy constitutional.
i~t soldiers. including large number
of Naqui Indians from the army " Gen
Icral Blanco
In that short time what j. believed 10
have been well organized plot ID start
u revolt against the new government had
been clearly ~nippc,l in the bud" through
quick action on the part of General In
clio Blanru. the conStitnti0nalist general.
who. with a. small command on the ird
day Of June. 1919. captured the city Of
Matamuro>. and gave 10 the c0nSiitu.
tionalSt> in their early and weak days
their first port of entry
The trouble seemed tn have started at
stable near the headquarters uf Gen.
eral Blanco. when fifty policemen ap.
pcared and demanded that the soldiers
guarding the place furnish them with
fifty horses. The guards happened 10 he
stoical Naqui Indians. Their orders
were a. deliver horses ~ nn one without
orders and according ~ Mr. Er"diX. with
them orders were orders. The police
when asked To show their orders for the
horses told the Indians that they need
rd no orders The Indians calmly told
them to get out The police refused and
drew their bright new MauScrS. which
apparently had just recently been fur
lni>hcd them No further words on their
part were necessary. The laquiS opened
fire
II was In my room in the headquar
ters of General Blanro IA the Sime." said
Mr. BrodiN TODAY. ia telling ~ The occur
renee. .Il seemed that almost ~imultan-
eou>ls with the firing near the stable.
firing started IN an altogether different
direction. and apparently had progress
"a well to the outskirts ~ the city.
There was little or ne tronble in the
heart ~ the citt II was certain that
battle wn> ia progress. and N rnuilnTicii
for perhaps. an hpitr and half. Tcle-
phones from General Blanro'> heaslquar-
terS were Immediately connected with all
the barracks III the city. and the troops
were hustled out General Blanco him
sell rot ont ia the middlr ~ the street in
the thick ~ the FRAY and directed hi
men. remaining with them until thu. >it.
uation had been calmed.
General Blanco promptly informed
General Carranza. the supreme chief
that Ia the following morning there
would ~ rp more M hr l.Nnn police who
hail ~rr.t-l under General Iinrrta. S'A
hundred ~ them were captured before
lair thai night. mant of them clad onl,
la their underwear and shoes. havin.
rid themselves ~ their uniforms IN
the hope that they would be better able
% effect their escape.
The following morning the police ~
parimcal had put on IN entirely new ap
pcararee Their uniforms wer. Khaki
and instead III .auS ~ helmets. they all
wort fht larr hfs hats sr pornlas