New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-03
Old Ideas Die
Hard i'm Mexico:
Revolts Go On
Osuna, Raising Standard in
South, Is Defeated, but
Flees to Hills and Prepares
to Make More Trouble
Villa Blows Up Train
Generals Can't Get Used to
Idea Cars Are Not Their
Own Private Property
By Sophie Treadwell

NT''iN''''t
Copyrig ht. 1920 New York Tribune Inc.
MEAlCO CITY, July 2.-Mexico's
new President. new government and
new plan for new general order of
Things cannot make new army and a
new people, fguratively, overnight.
The Obregonistas, now in control here
in the southern republic, are beginning
to realize this and are forced to count
upon and so to deal with the almost
identical and vet intact army which
existed under the Carranza regime.
This old army under q new regime,
the new administrators Of Mexico are
beginning to realize, has not YET
changed its kin. 1t has the same in
terests, motives, customs, virtues,
vices and defects of organization
New Rebel Defeated
News reaches the capital that Cen
eral Carlos Osuna, who raised himself
in arms against The de la Huerta
government in Tamaulipas. has been
defeated, though tie general himself
has escaped.
Disgruntled with rhe new order of
things, General Osuna used the same
old method Of starting trouble so com
mon in Mexico's history He retired
last Sunday to his ran.h-La Diana
north of the City Of Victoria, and an
nounced himself ready for volunteers
Tor new revolution. Various station
guards along the railway from Monte
rey to Tampico quit their posts in
exactly the same old way and started
out for La Hacienda de Ia Diana. In
traditional manner they requisitoned
horses and arms en- route and soon
Osuna found himself with about five
hundred men, Yesterday he waylaid
train, taking foodstuffs, but not
molesting the passengers.
From here onward the story is the
same old story. Federal forces fought
the same old battle with Osuna's
revolutonaries and defeated them,
but the leader went uncaptured, to
hide away in the hills and recruit new
forces for another sporadic revolt.
Villa Dynamites Train
Francisco Villa, too, has nothing new
to offer under the new regime. News
reached the capital to-day of Villas
newest and latest attack on train in
Chihuahua. The same old methods
Notwithstanding spot in the desert.
dynamite under the tracks, men hidden
behind adjacent rocks, waiting for
armored car carrying the escort, firing
on the passengers and crew and then
the same old escape.
Various generals who announced
their allegiance to the Obregonistas
and threw off the yoke of Carranza
readily are also having trouble ad-
justing themselves. General Luis
Hernandez left Mexico City yesterday
with an escort and under orders to
take away by force, if necessary, GER
tam railroad equipment, including
rolling stock, from generals in North
ern ana Central Mexico who have
held the property so long that they
feel possession is nine points of the
law. General Alfredo Machuca left
the capital yesterday for the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec on the same mission.
Generals Can't Understand
An order was issued several days ? 20
by Secretary of War P. Elias Gales
directing certain generals to return
government railway property. But the
majority of these generals, accustomed
to consider as their personal property
trains that have been turned over to
them for the movement of troops or
have been taken in fighting, refuse to
obey, or rather, to quote General
Eduardo Garcia, Chief OF Staff to the
War Minister, they have not under
stood their orders
The idea of special privilege was
amply nourished by Carranza and the
generals flourished. They cannot now
understand that there is new Presi-
dent IN Mexico and a new plan with a
new order of things. They persist in
doing things in the same old way.
MEXICO CITY July (By The AS
ISOLATED Press. General Francisco
Gonzales, former governor of the State
of T&maulipas, captured at Santa
Engracia by General Arnulfo r. Gomez.
has been ordered executed by General
P. Elias Gales, Secretary of War.