New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-06
Hope That Warning Fac
tons May Be United
Called idle Dream"
REBEL MARCH ON
CAPITAL POSTPONED
Huerta Fears Foe at Home More
than Americans, Is Inference
from His Actions.

ushered in to-day under a dazzling,
broiling sun.
The situation here and in the city's
environs has not changed a particle.
Dusty Vera Cruz is surrounded by the
big feet and its forces, including the
bluejackets on the battleship New
York, which is stationed at the princi-
pal outposts, and on the scorching SAND
hills are Federal soldiers, numbering
perhaps 1900 all told. occupying CO.
atzacoalcos. Alvarado, Tejerla, Jalapa,
Paso del Macho and Orizaba.
General Funstons soldiers are still
using the public schools for barracks
The "watchful waiting" regime visibly
IS having its effect on the spirit OF the
men. and so far as can be seen mere
there is no prospect Of relief. the
Mexican Herald" says edtorally to-
day under the caption "Our Duty TO
Humanity:
THE hope that the Mexican factions
can get together. even in such crisis
as this, is an idle dream. The belief
that Villas entrance into the capital
would stop the revolution and pillage
in Mexico is fallacious.
THE ignorant elements Of disorder
that have been let loose upon this coun-
try by three years Of turmoil find this
method Of livelihood exactly TO their
liking, and they never will return TO
the prosaic work of ploughing corn I'M
til they are forced to do so. Unfortu-
nately no Mexican or combination OF
Mexicans is strong enough to-day to
whip the country into order again"
Villa Attack Delayed.
Francisco Villa, the rebel commander,
may not make his intended descent on
Mexico City before another three
months, according to prominent bust
ness man who arrived here from the
capital to-day, after having completed
negotiations with President Huerta for
the removal Of a large quantity of bull
lion from the mining districts in the
vicinity of the capital General Huerta
is still sending Federal troops north
ward, as he apparently breads more
the possible approach of General Villa
than an advance of the Americans.
General Villa is proceeding leisurely,
If he has the intention Of moving on
the capital. Monterey and Saltillo are
believed in Mexico City to have been
evacuated by the Federals, who are
said to have fallen back on San Luis
Potosi. where they are understood by
the government TO be threatened by
the revolutionists.
General Huerta, 1t is asserted, has
done nothing to show he anticipates a
forward movement of the American
army or expects in the event of such
to offer serious resistance.
The government powder factory is re-
ported to be turning out daily some
5000 dynamite bombs. These are un-
derstood to be intended for defence
against an attack on the capital by
General Villa or Emiliano Zapata, the
Southern rebel.
Except for shipping a dozen or moro
cannon TO the vicinity Of Paso del
Macho, the headquarters of General
Gustavo Mas, on the Mexican Rail-
way, and a like number to General
Gullermo Rubio Navarrete, at Jalapa,
on the Interoceanic Railroad, and sup
plies of dynamite for mining the
bridges on the railroad, nothing fur
Their has been done by General Huerta
to prepare for resistance on the road
from Vera Cruz to the capital.
Less Than 1000 with Mas.
The business man who brought this
news called on General Mas at Paso del
Macho. having been furnished safe con-
duct by General Huerta. He spent some
hours with the general while the train
on which he was passenger was heid
pending the arrangement of formaliues.
From personal observation he estimated
that General Mas had less than one
thousand men under his orders. He saw
only few small attachments here and
there on the way from the capital.
General Navarette. who is said to have
entered Vera Cruz few days after the
American occupation and to have moved
about freely in disguise. is now reported
TO have from 500 10 600 men with him at
Jalepa.
Events in the capital since the taking
OF Vera Cruz were then narrated. There
were street demonstrations the first few
days, when various American business
houses were stoned by the mob. These
demonstrations were apparently brought
10 an end by n proclamation issued by
merchants in the capital whose sympa-
thies were with the revolution. They en-
deavored to offset the alarming oxagge-
rations and falsihcations published by
the government press. They also tried to
relate with more or less truth the state
OF affairs in Vera Cruz.
One of the direct results OF their action
was the abandonment of gigantic dem
onstration projected by the Spanish col
ony based upon widely circulated report
that the Americans had sunk the Spanish
cruiser .mperador Carlos V in the harbor
of Vera Cruz and had declared war
against Spain.
Plot to Attack Americans.
Under cover Of this proposed demon
stration IL was reliably reported that sew