The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-11
DIPLOMACY NOT
ARMS is TO END
The REVOLUTION
Mexican Government Gives
Up Force in Trying to
Suppress Rebels.


cy, not arms, has been called on to
end the latest revolt in Mexico-that
of Generals Luis Gutierrez and Fran
cisco Coss in Coahuila-while diplo-
macy, plus arms and American influ-
ence is counted on to bring General
Manuel Pelaez to. acknowledge the
authority of the government and in
cidentally divert to the national
Treasury the flow of money which
Pelaez has been receiving from Tam
pico oil producers. This information
twas brought to the border by trav-
elers from Mexico. City and supple
mented 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, General Pelaez whose
forces have been guarding the district
that supplies the Entente navies with
fuel oil, had m ade overtures to treat
for amnesty with the government.
The paper added, that the govrnment
would consider nothing but uncondi-
tional surrender and that General
Manuel Dieguez had been ordered to
L
1t was stated by one of the party Of
travellers who is in a position to know
the workings of President Carranza's
latest scheme to conciliate the war
ring Mexican factions, that the re-
cent seizure of the fleet of the Next
can Navigation Company was not for
the purpose of bringing food stuffs
from Central America, but for trans
porting troops to Tampico and driv-
ing Pelaez' forces from their strong
hold. One steamer already had been
loaded with soldiers at Vera Cruz the
day he left, he asserted.
Another statement was to the eff
feet that General Luis Cabellero had
requested the Tampico producers to
use their influence to bring Pelaez
back into the ranks of government
generals; and that, if, this were not ac-
complished, Pelaez would be attack
ed from the landward and sea sides,
with probably disastrous results for
| the oil fields, from a producing stand
point. The claim was made that the
government was determined to secure
control Of the oil fields, not only that
it might get additional revenue, but
also to use its control of the oil sup
| ply to force favorable conditions for
the expectation of foodstuffs and gold
from the United States to Mexico
| With regard to the recent revolt in
| Coahuila, Mexico City papers an
nounced that Gutierrez and Coss had
taken the field against the state gov
eminent, but had been defeated and
| their forces driven to the hills. Gu
| tierrez is said to have been wounded
Unofficial reports received here from
the region of Saltillo and Monterey,
however, state that, although five
regiments were sent from Mexico City
to the affected district and other
forces were hurried from the north
and east, Gutierrez and Coss virtually
have been unmolested, have any
where from 1900 to 1000 men and
are threatening to take over the coal
mines in the region of Monclova,
thereby paralyzing the national rail-
way system.
| Gutierrez asserts, according to re-
ports, that at the recent state cleo
ton in Coahuila, he was named gov
ernor, but that Gustavo Espinosa Mi
relies, a strong Carranza supporter,
was counted in" Mireles assumed Of
flee on December II. Although the
revolt is given small space in the pa
pers from the capital, governor Zem-
brano, of Neuvo Leon, at his recent
conference here with Governor Hob
by of Texas, was quoted unofficially
as saying that the situation was seri-
Gus. Coss is the second of the divi-
sional generals who backed the Car
rama government to revolt. Villa was
the first.
Americans arriving here from Mex
leo City say that Cantu, Gales Pc
laez and Alvarado are virtually indie
pendent rulers in Lower California
Sonora, Tamaulipas and Yucatan re-
spectively, that Villa is rampant in
Chihuahua, the Cedilla brothers in
the region between San Louis Potosi
and Queretaro and that unorganized
in the Vera Cruz and Guadlajara dis
tricts. The campaign against the Ia
rata followers in Morelos at the gate
way TO Mexico ity, is quiescent while
forces, estimated at thousands, un.
Ger the command of former federal
officers, control the isthmus.
Hunger and the constantly increas.
ing cost Of living are believed to be
the cause of much of the present dis
content in Mexico and especially Of
the recent recrudescence of border
raids. The last corn crop on the cen
l trail plateau was ruined by frost ant
the embargo measures on fopdstuffs
are also beginning to be felt. Price!