Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-15
DIPLOMACY NOT
ARMS IS TO END
The REVOLUTION
Mexican Government Gives
Up Force in Trying. to
Suppress Rebels.

W,
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
nico oil producers. This information
was brought to the border by tray
e1ers 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 made overtures to treat
for amnesty with the government.
The paper added, that the govrnment
would consider nothing but uncondf-
tional surrender and that General
Manuel Dieguez had been ordered to
press the campaign against Pelaez.
It was stated by one Of the 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 re-
cent seizure Of the fleet of the Mexi-
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 PeIaez' 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, bun
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 othel
forces were hurried from the NORTH
and east, Gutierrez and Coss virtual!
have been unmolested, have any
where from 1900 to 1000. men an(
are threatening to take over the Goa
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, strong Carranza supporter
was counted in" MireIes assumed of
flee on December IT. Although tn
revolt is given small space in the pa
pers from the capital, governor Fem
brano, of Neuvo Leon, at his recen
conference here with Governor Hob
by of Texas, was quoted unofficiall
t 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 wa
: the first.
n Americans arriving here from Mex
3 leo City say that Cantu, Gales, Pc
f laez and Alvarado are virtually indie
Y pendent rulers in Lower California
: Sonora, TamauIipas and Yucatan re
# spectively, that Villa is rampant i
Chihuahua, the Cedilla brothers i
IS the region between San Louis Poto.
and Queretaro and that inorganic
e bandits are unopposed in Hidalgo, an
# in the Vera Cruz and Guadlajara dis
n tricts. The campaign against the Ia
: pata followers in Morelos, at the gate
= way to Mexico ity, is quiescent Will
forces, estimated at thousands, III
=, Eder the command of former feders
- officers, control the isthmus.
Hunger and the constantly increas
u ing cost of living are believed to b
y the cause of much of the present dis
- content in Mexico and especially {
-, the recent recrudescence of horde
II raids. The last corn crop on the Ger
Is trail plateau was ruined by frost an
le the embargo measures on foodstuff
are also beginning to be felt. Price
N on almost everything throughout tn
Id republic have risen to unpreceden
g, ed heights.