Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-12-20

July 81 OF ms rcaF-EfE VI 'hSo>
Outbreaks Are Ascribed to the Ae
tivity of Various Factions In Rebel
lion Against the carranza Govern
ment.
One hundred and twelve days ir
Mexico-from April 10 to July 81 OF
the present year-saw 317 major out
breaks of disorder reported in news
papers published under the close
scrutiny Of the Mexican authorities
according to map indexing condi
tons in Mexico just submitted to the
United States foreign relations SUB
committee investigating the Mexican
situation, says the New York Times
Rebel factions and bandits, the mill
tary and police organizations, and po
litical partisans were responsible fol
! all of these outbreaks, which did not
include the ordinary police crimes ano
misdemeanors.
/ OF the thirty states and territories
in Mexico all but lower California,
which is under the practically indie
pendent control Of Governor Cantu
and Quintana Roo, isolated on the
peninsula of Yucatan, furnished their
quota of violence and bloodshed.
Of the 317 outbreaks Of violence re
ported, the Mexican newspapers
ascribed 272 to the activity of various
factions in rebellion against the Car
rama government, Is to the depreda
lions of organized bandits, 10 to the
lawlessness of police and military Off
Gals, and three to clashes between
political partisans. Two newspapers
Excelsior and Ell Universal, published
in Mexico City, the seat Of the Carran.
"a government, reported 312 Of these
outbreaks. Four were reported by
Correo del Norte, published at Chi
, huahua City, and one was reported by
Ell Heraldo Of Chihuahua City.
Editors Are Deported.
It is significant that the outbreaks
were reported in Mexican newspapers
for during June the Carranza authori
ties arrested and deported to the dis
turbed district of Chihuahua a grouI
of newspaper editors whose publica
lions had displeased the government
by printing accounts of various dis
turbances.
Mexico's transportation system, tn
maintenance of which is vital to gov
ernmental control and to the subsist
ence of the people, was the particula
prey of the rebel bands. During tn
112 days indexed on the map present
ed to the committee, there were re
ported in 10 states Y instances o
trains dynamited, looted, and burned
railroad stations attacked, and raj
road track demolished by rebellion
marauders operating against the Cal
rama government. In addition I
these direct attacks on railroads, tn
various rebel forces during the sam
: period raided or occupied 81 OF Tn
| more populous towns on the variou
t railroad lines, looting, burning, an
3 killing. In the states of Vera Cru
= and Puehla the reports showed 30 q
|
lines which connect the Mexican cal
- ital with the coast, all Of which cause
a more or less extended interruptions
e traffic.
n The state of Puebla during the p'
u riod covered by the map was the seen
" of "a outbreaks of violence. Or the'
more than half occurred in the INN
Z date vicinity of Puebla City, one
4 the larger cities of Mexico. One
the attacks, reported in EXcelslo
Z June IS. was directed against the hac
4 cnda Of William jenkins, America
consular agent at Puebla, who IN U
& toher was captured and held for RAJ
som by the rebels. In the June attaC
the hacienda was looted and the ma
n ager killed.
u Garrison Revoits.
q Excelsior reported on June II TIL
y the entire Carranza garrison at Sc
Marcos. Puebla, had revolted, viii
# rebels were looting towns, kidnapll
q women and men, and dynamiting ra
s road trains throughout the state.
Fifty-one important outbreaks
E disorder were reported in the state
Vera Cruz during the period cover
by the map, and everyone Of the
outbreaks was ascribed to the activi
of rebel forces.
Throughout the period covered
the map the reports indicated unint'
rupted activity by PanchO Villa a
his forces in the states of Chihuah
and Durango. On April 20 UniverS
reported an indefinite suspension
railroad traffic across southern q
huahua because of Villas activiti
and on May 20 Excelsior reported t
villistas concentrated at Parral, wi
Villa himself bound north to turn II
cash 100000 pesos of stolen sil7
bullion.
Several battles between Villas t
lowers and Carranza troops, numero
Villa attacks on railroad trains a
strategic railroad points and numero
raids by Villa forces were report
For ten days, Universal reported
June 4, the villa forces held the
portant town of Parral, and on Ju
Q Excelsior said that villa had CT
tured San Andres and transferred
Headquarters there. These activit
of villa led to the establishment
concentration camps at Jiminez
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