The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-31
PAULHUDS0N, AMERICAN, BESIEGED
NMEXlCAN HERALD BIJI DING
As Rival Factions Play Hide and Seek Editor and Family
Hold Fort IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Issued Newspaper
From Plant, Using Up $4,000 Pesos in S,nnlips
tMexico City Correspondence of the
New York Herald.)


Paul Hudson, editor. and the Mexi-
can Herald have just added another
10 a long list of experiences with news
paper making in the tropics, which
threaten to rival in interest those of
Colonel Henry Watterson when he
burst forth a publisher by getting
oIt a newspaper from the tail end Of
an army wagon during the Civil War.
In the ups and downs of the revo-
luton, while the different factions are
playing hide and seek with the Capi-
tai Of the republic, the main reolli-
site Of getting out an official news |
paper representing the faction in |
power is an ability to excel at cross |
country running and to draw a fine |
finish so that the last edition may
get out not more than half a length |
in front of an incoming crowd.
The Mexican Herald, having alb |
stained from all editorial comment on
the situation, having abolished both
the editorial page and the editorial
comment which, according to Latin
custom, Is written into virtually every
news story, had up to the recent oc-
Cupation of the capital by the Zapa-
tistaS managed to bridge over the
gaps and continue to publish under
authorities which have from time to
time represented all the factions and
even during the intervals when there
were authorities at ALL Being a for
cign company and issuing a neutral
newspaper, the Herald was not in ia
Vor with any of the factions, but had
managed to escape the ak, despite
government changes, and was often
the only newspaper of general circu-
lutiun issued in the capital
Foreign Property in Peril.
But when General Pablo Gonzales
and his forces abandoned the capital
July II and Is, in view of the loss Of
PaChuCa, and the appearance from
the north of a considerable Villista
force, which threatened his lines of
communication with Vera Cruz, there
occurred an interregnum of some
thing less than two weeks during
which Mexico City was at the mercy
of a group of minor Zapatista mill
tary officials, when there were no re-
SponSible authorities in the city and
when foreign property was as little
respected as native holdings.
During this period. when, as the
diplomatic representative of one OF
the great European nations re-
marked, "One could enjoy the unique
experience of watching the total dis
integration of the entire social fab
ric," the Mexican Herald plant wa.
taken over by Enrique Bonilla, editor
OF a Zapatista newspaper, called F.
Renovador, the Herald machinery
news print and other supplies wert
used and Mr.. Hudson and his wifi
and small daughter were prisoners il
their apartments in the Herald build
ing. Mr. Hudson was threatene'
with being turned into the street a
any time when the newspaper wa
taken over. Although 1t was at nigh
and heavy rain was falling, he wa
ordered to leave his residence at ono
and only his flat refusal, followe
by the locking of all doors to preven
an entrance except by the use Q
force, enabled him to stall off Bonill
and retain his home and his cOlleC
tion Of antique furniture and painting
accumulated during a residence c
more than twenty years in this coun
try
Uses the Herald Plant.
Acting on an order from the gov
ernor of the federal district, who ha
been appointed by the Zapitistas an
who came back to the city after tn
constitutionalists had retired, that tn
Mexican Herald should be close'
Bonilla did not stop ct closing tn
newspaper, but Immediately proceed
ed to send a force of printers, press
men and editorial workers into TT
building to issue his own newspaper
from the Herald plant. Six pag'
were issued to the edition, edition
We're run off far in excess of the d.
mand in Mexico City, and the pap'
was sold at five centavos, less than ii
cost OF the paper upon which it w;
printed.
In each edition columns of attacl
upon Mr.. Hudson and the Mexics
Herald the editor and his newspap
being charged with being hostile
the revolution and to the Mexican II
ton. Editorial comment taken fro
the Herald which was published
Vera Cruz during the American occ
patton Of that port was copied al
changed to suit the ends of the G
ltors of FL Renovador. Editors
the Mexican situation, taken fro
American newspapers and publish
IN the Herald at Vera Cruz, with II
credit n their source were reDll