Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-07
MEXICAN EXECUTIVE TO USE DE-
PLoMAcY IN EFFORT TO
CRUSH REBELLION.
CONTROL OF OIL FIELDS
SOUGHT BY GOVERNMENT
Possession Of Oil Supply Valuable to
Carranza Who Hopes to Force Fa.
vorabIe Conditions For Expectation
Of Food and Gold From United States
Mexico Still in Turmoil.

arms. has been called on to end the
latest revolt In Mexico-that Of Gem
erals Luis Gutierrez and Francisco
Coss in Coahuila-while diplomacy.
plus arms and American influence Is
counted on to bring Gen. Manuel Pc
laez to acknowledge the authority Of
the government and incidentally divert
| to the national treasury the flow of
money which Pelaez has been receiv-
ing from the Tampico oil producers.
This information was brought to the
border by Travellers from Mexico City
| and supplemented from the carefully
censored stories appearing in newspa-
pers 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 government
would consider nothing but uncond,-
tional surrender and that Gen. Manuel
DlegueZ had been ordered to press the
campaign against Pelaez.
It was stated by one Of a party OF
travellers who is in a position to know
the workings of President Carranza's
latest scheme TO conciliate the warning
Mexican factions, that the recent seiz.
ure of the fleet of the Mexican Navl-
cation Company was not Tor the pur-
pose Of bringing foodstuffs from Cent
- It,.
troops to Tampico and driving Pelae1
forces from their stronghold. One
steamer already had been loaded with
soldiers at Vera Cruz the day he left.
| he asserted.
Fight to Control Oil Fields.
Another statement was to the effect
that Gen. Luis CabelIero had requested
the Tampico producers TO use their in
fluence to bring Pelacz back into the
ranks Of government generals. and
that. II this were not accomplished,
Pelaez would be attacked from the
lardward and sea sides with probably
disastrous results for the oil fields,
from a producing standpoint. 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 it's
control OF the oil supply to force fav-
| orable 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 Cutter
| rez Is said to have been wounded. I'm
official reports received here from the
region Of Saltllo and Monterey, how
ever, state that although five regiments
were sent from Mexico City to the az
fected district and other forces were
| hurried there from the north and east
Gutierrez and Coss virtually have been
unmolested, have anywhere from 200
| to 1000 men and are threatening to
take over the coal mines in the region
OF Monclova, thereby paralyzing the
national railway system.
Gutierrez asserts. according to re-
| ports, that at the recent state election
| in coahuila, he vas named governor
! but that GustaVo Espnosa Mireles. a
| strong Carranza supporter, was count
ed IN" Mireles assumed office on Dec
| i. Although the revolt Is given small
| space in the papers from tho capital
| Governor Iembrano, Of Neuvo Leon, at
his recent conference here with Cover
nor Hobby, Of Texas, was quoted unof-
| fcially as saying that the situation was
serious Coss is the second of the divi-
s!onal general who backed the Carran
IA government to revolt. Villa was
the first.
| Conditions in Mexico Chaotic.
| Americans arriving here from Mex
! leo City say that Cantu. Gales, Pelaez
and Alvarado are virtually independ-
ent rulers in Lower California, Sonora
Tamaulipas and Yucatan respectively.
! that Villa Is rampant IN Chihuahua
the CedNla brothers in the region be-
tween San Luis Potosi and Queretaro
and that unorganized bandits are ua,-
opposed in Hidalgo, and in the Vera
Cruz and Guadlajara districts. The
campaign against the Zapata followers
| in Morelos, at the gateway to Mexico
| City, Is quiescent while forces. estI-
mated at thousands. under the COM
mand Of former federal officers, con-
| troll 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 recrudescene Of border raids.
The last corn crop ON the central plat
eau was ruined by frost and the en-
barge measures on foods tufts are also
beginning to oe felt Prices on almost
everything throughout the republic