The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-05-14
.CARRANZA IS TOLD
He MUST RESIGN
Council Of Military Officers
Sends an Ultimati0n
GONZALES JOINS THE REBLEs
Decision OF Military Group To Aban.
don Him Prevents President
carranza From Agrees
sive Action.

Washington. General Pablo Con.
zales, long regarded by Carranza as
his staunchest supporter, has joined
in the revolution, according to advices
through official channels. He was a
few miles east of the Mexican cap.
itel Tuesday in command of two regi.
ments of federal troops and had Sc.
.vered both railway lines extending to
Vera Cruz.
Another report received here
through unofficial channels was that
the high military officers whom Car.
rama summoned in councils a few
days ago, had supplemented their adj
vice to him to resign, with an ulti-
matum fixing May Is as the limit for
his tenure of Office.
The reported determination of the
military group to force him out of
Office goes far, officials here believe
to account for the failure by Car
rama in getting under way any Of
fensive campaign. To date the revo-
luton has moved forward without
battle and the report mentioning the
ultimatum added that his military adj
visers were determined not to follow
course that would inevitably involve
the country in long struggle filled
with danger of foreign complications.
When Gonzales disappeared from
Mexico City, government officials
there are said to have professed
ignorance as to his whereabouts, but
all secrecy as. to his movements was
removed when he joined Manuel
Gonzales, commanding a federal force
near Los Reyes. This meeting was
followed by the immediate utilization
Of the force as revolving unit. After
cutting the railroads Gonzales and his
force are said to have moved toward
the State of Puebla, where a strong
force of rurales recently announced
their support of the rebellion.
Gonzales, who was the leading OPP
ponent Of Oregon for the presidency
until Ambassador Bonillas entered
as a candidate, conferred with OBJ
RECON just before Oregon fed from
the capital where he was being held
as an important witness IN case
brought against General Cajudo for
sedition. Prior to that a conference
had been held between Obregon, Con-
zales and Bonillas, at which, it was
announced, Bonillas had been urged
by both Obregon and Gonzales to join
them in withdrawing their three can
didacies in the interest of harmony.
Bonillas refusal was followed by the,
revolt in Sonora and the fight Of
Obregon.
Cable companies refused Tuesday to
accept messages from Mexico City for
the first time since the uprising. The
refusal to- accept messages was con-
strued by officials here as an indica-
ton that when the revolutionists cut
the railway lines between the capital
and Vera Cruz they also cut the land
wires which parallel one of the roads
most of the way.
Whether Carranza still has access
to the cable station at Coatzacoalcos,
south of Vera Cruz, was unknown
here, but regarded as improbable on
account of the presence of rebels in
the vicinity of that point on the 18th
mus of Tehauntepec. Salina Cruz, the
cable station at the Pacific end of the
isthmus, has been reported in posses
sion of the rebels. The only land
wires left the government for direct
communication with the United States
are those through Eagle Pass and
Laredo.