Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-15
BY ALLENE TuPPER Wilkes.

A
| tie town OF Magdelena, Sonora. Slim.
silent. tightly buttoned up in CHINA
mon brown sweater, there was not
brass button or insignia on him. He
had just come from France to volun-
teer as common soldier in the army
of the Constitutionalists, though he
had held the rank Of brigadier-generai
in the standing army of Mexico. 49,:
Felipe Angeles was graduated from
the Military College at ChapuItepec.
When still boy he became an in
structor in the Academy and later
its president. He is considered an
authority on artillery tactics and has
twice been sent by the Mexican gov,
eminent on military commissions to
France ~. ......
Under Madero he went to the state
of Moreles to put down an uprising
led by Zapata, with the surprising
result that the people who fought
became his friends and looked to him
for relief from the destitute state in.
to which previous military suppress
sion had thrown them. He was call.
ed back to the City of Mexico by the
revolt of Felix Diaz. In the capital
he faced the problem of defending
the city and his president while I'm.
der the command of superior officer
who was no longer loyal. He escap-
ed assassination because of his popu-
larity with the army, but his protest
at the killing of Madero caused him
to be thrown into prison and after
wards sent out of the country
This is the soldier who came last
autumn to offer his services to Car
rama. AS military ability of so high
an order was not going begging in
Sonora, he was made "subsecretario
de Guerra Jefe de Artilleria."
He had not yet begun to play the
role of good angel, though there were
many poor souls in Moreles who
would have taken oath it was his real
character His success in this part
became known to some of us on the
safer side of the Rio Grande, when
he was sent to help Villa in the siege
of Torreon. =. -: ..:4-. ..
These two men, so widely different
in type-Villa, the one time bandit, |
and Angeles, the military expert -
became the closest of friends, drawn |
together by common hatred. With |
Angeles it was hatred of the treach-
cry done by the man in power at |
the City Of Mexico, with Villa hatred |
of the injustice the class which this !
man represented had for years i'm.
posed on the whole country To both |
the hope of future prosperity in Mex
leo lay in the destruction of the old |
order 1t was only in their methods
that they differed, and just here did
Felipe Angeles become Francisco Viii
las good angel. !
I will never let him leave me,
wrote Villa, and the natural leader
became the pupil of the teacher.
Angeles is the most powerful in
fiuence for good behind General Vii.
la writes an American from the bor-
der, Says another, IF you are look.
ing for strong men on whom the fu-
ture of Mexico may depend, keep your
eye on General Felipe Angeles. He
is not only enthused with the highest
ideals of the Constitutionalists, but
he has had, superior educational and
social advantages which fit him for
equal association with the best men
Of any country"
Americans have reason to think
we'll of him, for when our soldiers
took possession of Vera Cruz the Fed
eral officers at Saltillo, fellow stud.
ents and pupils of his in the Military
Academy at Chapultepec, wrote ask
ng him to join the Federal army in1
the honor of Mexico against
he "specter of the north" General
Angeles answered:
Your telegram says that we are on
he eve of race war. This is false,
We are, however, in great danger of
,eing drawn into q terrible war
" Huerta in. order that he may stop
W Huerta in order that may stop
he great triumph which will soon be
'urs-we of the Democratic party of
dexico. If you are patriots, you could
With but two words bring peace to
dexico. You could say to Huerta,
Stop here He continues that he
oes not expect they will utter these
words, and he trusts to the greatness ,
I President Wilson, the good sense OF
be American people, and the patriot.
SIN of the directors of the Democra-
ic party of Mexico, to bring peace
0 his unhappy country.
Just how hard it must have been
or him to take this stand against
Is former classmates and pupils. ! I
ealize when / think of the last talk
had with him before leaving Mex g
%. 1t was carried on in a remark
Bile mixture of Spanish, French and ]
ngIish, for my knowledge of any one e
I the languages seemed to be in ad =
erse ratio to his.
We were trying out new touring c
ar that had just come down from No 8
ales. Captain Salinas Carranza, the +
yiator who was wounded few days {
90 at Mazatlan. drove very fast, and B
) it had rained the day before the b
PADS were fearful. We rushed
trough puddles and streams without Z
lowing up at all. and General An Z
eles proposed that the car be chris f
.ned "Anadjav because It swan 50 a
ell. We hear a great deal about p
le reckless horseback riding in the Il
,uthwest. They drive their cars the q
.me way, going at full speed over t
40 arsd avery 0hstruction gallOui d