The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-06
VILLA EXPECTS TO TAKE THREE MONTHS TO PREPARE MARCH
 TO MEXICO CITY.
ON LElSURELY CAMPAIGN
Will Take SaltiIlo and Tampico Before Turning His Attention to the Cap ital of Mexico-Huerta Allows Ship ment of Gold.


 the rebel commander, may not make his intended descent on Mexico CltY before the lapse of another three months. according to a prominent business man who arrived here from the capital today. The refugee, who just had completed successful nego- tiations with Provisional President Huerta for the removal of a large quantity of bullion from mining dis tricts near the capital, says General Huerta is still sending federal troops aorthward, as he apparently dreads more the possible approach of Gen eral Villa than an advance of the Americans.
 General Villa is proceeding leisure lv. said the refugee if he has the in- tention of moving on the capital. Both Monterey and Saltillo are be- lieved in Mexico City to have been evacuated by the federals, who are said to have fallen back on San Luis Potosi.
 General Huerta, he asserts, has done nothing to show he anticipates q forward movement of the American army or expects in the event of such movement to offer serious resist ance
 The government powder factory is reported to be turning out daily 5000 dynamite bombs. These are u1der stood to be intended for defense against General Villa or Emiliano Zapata, the southern rebel. The refugees said that except for shipping a dozen or more cannon to the head quarters of General Gustavo Maas and like number to General Gull lermo Rubio Navarret at Jalapa, and supplies of dynamite for mining the railroad bridges, nothing further has been done by General Huerta to pre- pare for resistance on the road from Vera Cruz to the capital
 The business man who narrated these facts spent some hours with General Maas at Paso del Macho From personal observations he esti- mated that General Maas had less than one thousand men under his or ders. Q He saw only a few small de. tachments here and there on the way from the capital
 General Navarret, who is said to have visited Vera Cruz a few days after the American occupation, and to have moved about freely in disguise, is reported to have from 800 to 6O0 men with him at Jalapa.
 The refugee said street demonstra- tions in Mexico City after the taking of Vera Cruz apparently were ended by a proclamation issued by prom inent merchants whose sympathies were with the revolution. They en- deavored to offset the Notifications published by the government press. One of the direct results of the merchants action was the abandon ment of a gigantic demonstration pro- iected by the Spanish colony, based on report that the Americans had sunk the Spanish cruiser Emperador Carlos V, in the harbor of Vera Cruz, and had declared war against Spain. Under cover of this proposed dem- onstration it was reliably reported that Mexicans intended to make general attack on Americans and to sack and set fire to their property on the assumption that the blame would be placed on Spaniards
 Government officials in the capital, he said for the most part, made eff forts to protect foreigners, The confiscation of arms, except those taken from the United States embassy and of automobiles, was done without official sanction and it was said the automobiles would be returned to the owners and those re- sponsible for their appropriation sent to iail, where it was possible to fix | the blame. American and other for eign business houses, he declared, have reopened their doors and are eX- perieacing little difficulty in their affairs
 Most of the Americans have left the mining camps where they were employed.