Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-10
4 DICTATOR HUERTA HAS PREPARED |O DEFEND HIMSELF AGAINST YANKEES

same Indians to tear down the bar ricades which they had just erected.
 Division of Races.
 The Indians demolished their work for General Scott with as much readi- ness as they had put it up for Santa Anna. The Indians of today are little changed from those of 1S47.
 The tremendous importance of this indifferent attitude of the Indians is seen when one notes the division of races in Mexico as follows:
 White, 1 per cent.
 Mixed (mostly part Indian) 54 per cent.
 Indians, 30 per cent.
 Blacks, 1 per cent.
 Illiteracy runs according to differ ent accounts from 75 to 95 per cent.
 It is on the 15 per cent of white that Huerta must put his principal principal reliance, although he is him. self at least half Indian. There is a small percentage of capable Indians like Huerta and the famous patriot, Renito Juarez. Many Indians joined the army of Villa armed with long bows and arrows, weapons which have been discarded by the aborigines of the United tates.
 But great wave of loyalty to their beautiful country has been sweeping the large towns, where the more in telligent Mexicans live. At a mass meeting of Mexican citizens in Pied ras Negras, 800 volunteers were or ganized and armed to resist an ex- pected invasion last week. In the dis trict immediately surrounding Mex ico City warlike preparations long have been going on to an extent un- dreamed of by most Americans. The shipment of 15,000,000 rounds of ann intuition on the German cruiser Ypl- ranga which was seized by Admiral Fletcher at Vera Cruz was undoubted- ly meant for American heads-and it had taken some time to arrange for the purchase and despatch of these cartridges. Even without this ship ment, Huerta's troops will not lack ammunition. There is good ammu- hilton factory at Chapultepec, the beautiful hill near Mexico City, which is the site of the national mlll- tary acadeES Mexico's West Point.
 Uses Boys and Girls.
 Huerta has converted the boys or the Mexico high school into an armed brigade and has had the girls organ ized as a uniformed Red Cross corps. He can also depend upon the brave boys of Chapultepec. The heroic youths of this famous school flung themselves recklessly in the path ot General Scott's army in 1S47 and were decimated. Scott's bold Americans were stirred to admiration by the way these young men from the best faml- lies of Mexico went to their deaths.
 Huerta has, according to the best information of the United States war department, at present 42,7Ol regular soldiers available for field duty. These are scattered throughout the republic in various towns and no single dlvl- sion at the outbreak of hOstlllt1eS with the United States comprised more than 6,OO0. There were about 6,0oO troops in the district around the cap ital and approximately the same num- Der in the vicinity Qf Saltillo, south of TorreOn. .91q ha
 Huerta'suIfOOps
 There was said to be about S,5oo troops in Sonora, 2,00O in Sinaloa, SOU in Topic, 5000 in Jalisco, HOO in Co luna, 4,5OO in Zacatecas and 1.25O in Guerrero.
 On the Atlantic coast the forces before the seizure of Vera Cruz. were reported to be 1,250 in San Luis Po- tosi, 4,1OO in Vera Cruz, and 1000 II Puebla. In addition to these there