El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-08
DIPLOMACY NAY
CHECK REVOLTS
Carranza viii Use Force,
However, to Get Tampico
Oil Fields, Claim.

LAREDO, Tex, Feb. s.-Diplomacy.
not arms. has been called in to end
the latest revolt in Mexico-that Of
generals Luis Gutierrez and Francisco
Coss in ,Cohuila-while diplomacy,
plus arms and American influence is
counted on TO bring Gen Manuel
Pelaez TO acknowledge the authority
OF the government and incidentally
divert to the national treasury the
flow Of money which Peiaez has been
receiving from the Tampico oil pro-
ducers. This information was brought
to the border by travellers from Mex
leo City and supplemented from the
carefully censored stories appearing
in newspapers which recently have
been brought here from Mexico City
According to a story printed in
Mexico City, Gen. Pelaez, whose forces
have been guarding the district that
supplies the entente navies with fuel
oil, had made oYertures TO treat for
amnesty with the government The
paper added, that the government
tional surrender and that Gen. Manuel
Dieguez had been ordered to press the
campaign against Pelaez.
1t vas stated by one Of a party OF
travellers who is in position TO know
the workings OF president Carranza's
latest scheme to conciliate the war,
ring Mexican factions, that the recent
seizure of the fleet OF the Mexican
Navigation company was not for the
purpose of. bringing foodstufts from
Central America, but for Transporting
troops to Tampico and driving
Pelaez's forces from their stronghold.
One steamer already had been loaded
with soldiers at NeracruZ the day he
left, he asserted
Would Use OH To Force U. 5.
Another statement was to the effect
that Gen. Luis Cabellero had re
quested the Tampico producers TO use
their influence to bring Pelaez back
into the ranks Of government gen.
erals; and that II this were not &C
complished. Pelaez would be attacked
from the landWard and sea sides, with
probably disastrous results for the oil
fields, from a producing standpoint.
The claim was made that the govern
ment was determined to secure con-
troll Of the oil fields, not only that il
might get additional revenue, but also
10 use its control Of the oil supply 70
force favorable conditions for the ex-
portation Of foodstuffs and gold from
the United States TO Mexico.
With regard TO the recent revolt in I
COahuila, Mexico City papers an
nOunced that Gutierrez and Coss had /
taken the field against the state gov
eminent, but had been defeated and i
their forces driven to the hills Cutter !
reg is said to have been wounded IN
official reports received here from the /
region Of Salttllo and Monterey. how
ever, state that although five regi- 4
ments were sent from Mexico City to
the affected district and other forces
were hurried there from the north
and east, Gutierrez and COss virtually
have been unmolested, have anywhere
on 80 annn (
anlng TO take over the coal mines in
he region or Moncloya, thereby par
alyzlng the national railway system.
Gutierrez aserts, according to re-
ports, that at the recent state cleo
lion in Coahuila, he was named gov
srnor. but that Gustavo Espinosa
Aireles. a strong Carranza supDorter,i
: as counted in" Mireles assumed Of
ice on December Il. Although the
'eVolt IS given small space in the
lapers from the capital, governor
lembrano, OF NeuVo Leon, at his re-
;ent conference here with Gov. Hobby,
u Texas, was quoted unofficially as
aging that the situation was serious
1oss Is the second OF the divisional
generals who backed the Carranza
government TO revolt villa was the
irst.
Revolutions Numerous.
Americans arriving here from Mex /,
co City say That Cantu, Gales, Pelaezt
M Alfarado are virtually independ-
Mt rulers in Lower California, sonora,
amaulipas and Yucatan respectively,
hat Villa is rampant in chihuahua, /,
y Cedilla brothers in the region be-
Ween san Luis Pososi and Queretaro {
no that unorganized bandits are IN
ppised in Hidalgo. and in the Vera I
ruz and Guadlajara districts The =
ampaign against the Zapata follow
rs In Morelos, at the gateway to
iexico City, is quiescent while forces.
stimated at thousands, under the
ommand Of former federal officers,
ontrol the isthmus
Hunger and the constantly increas-
az cost OF living are believed to be I
ne cause OF much Of the present dis {
ontent IN Mexico and especially OF I
ne recent recrudescene Of border 7
aids. The last corn crop on the I
entral plateau was ruined BY frost {
M the embargo measures on food I
TUFTS are also beginning to be felt
'rices on almost everything through {
" the republic have risen TO unpre- 7
edented heights.
Colds Cause Headache and Grin I
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