The Washington herald., 1920-05-13
Cabrera Quits
Chief at First
Sign ofReuoh
Minister of Finance Now In
United States, According
To Last Advices.
Leaders In Insurrection Re.
ported Fully In Accord on
New Regime S Program.

London, May Ia.-Grahame
Richards, former consul gen.
eral to Mexico, writing in the
Pail Mall Gazette, declared to-
day that if the rumor that rev.
olutionary forces in Mexico :
have captured the oil fields is
true, foreign intervention in
Mexico will become inevitable.
Whatever fate overtakes Venus
tiano Carranza, deposed President
of Mexico, Luis Cabrera, minister
of finance and chief fomenter of
the anti-American sentiment, which
has .tinged the more recent activi-
tics Of the Carranza government,
has taken himself safely out of
Mexico.
Cabrera, whose faculty for eIu-
sIveness has become a by-word on
both sides Of the Rio Grande, ap-
parently lived up to his rcputa-
tion. According 10 unofficial ad-
vices reaching here yesterday, he
LETT Mexico City two full DAYS be-
tore Carranza, without as much as
notifying his chief OF the intended
fight, and now is supposed to be
somewhere in the United States.
Kept Public in DARK.
The story of the getaway OF tn.
erstwhile minister Of finance by
means of ruse was revealed in its
Interesting details here today. Min
lister Cabrera was in the habit Of
receiving members OF the Mexican
CITY press every afternoon. but on
the first day that the revolution an
reared TO menace the city. Cabrera's
secretary. instead. received the
Mexican reporters and gave them a
written statement which had been
prepared by the minister
Thee next day the same perform
ance was repeated. but on the third
DAY Cabrera secretary explained
his chief had nothing to say and
had in fact left Mexico CITY.
With his plans to cross the Amer
lean border at EaEle Pass check
mated by one faction Of the revoIu-
tionists, CabrC-a was forced TO co
to chihuahua City. " here he was ar
rested. but was released upon in
struCtions from Gen. Alvaro Obre-
Eon. provided with money and as
sisted to proceed to the United
States.
CarranEa Remains at Large. -
Carranza, frustrated in his att,
tempt to reach Vera Cruz from Mex
leo City. stiII is at large somewhere
between the capital and the coast.
Advices TO the State Department.
via Nogales. Ariz, report that the
deposed Presto and his faithful
general. Francisco Murguia, with a
force of possibly 1000 men, are be-
tween Esperanza and Apizaco. on.
the line of tho railroad to the coast.
1t was stated in dispatches from
Sonora that tho fedcrals wera
hemmcd in by tho troops Of Cen
anu NllGlE TnOulefl-
tarily expected Obregon has or
dercd that both leaders be taken
prisoner and respectfully treated.
Reports continue to sustain the
carly evidences that the revolt has
been virtually bloodless. while tho
revolutionary agents in washinE-
ton arc insisting that an understand
ing has been reached between tho
various generals who have led tho
revolt in different sections OF tho
republic.
Perfect Accord Claimed.
According to a dispatch received
at the headquarters OF the Sonora
revolution here. signed by Gen
Adolpho de la Huerta, governor OF
Sonora and temporary provisional
President OF Mexico" the Sonora
revolutionists and Gen. Alvaro Oh
regon. the present outstanding fig
ure of the Mexican situation, are in
perfect accord.
'T have been in direct communi-
cation With General Obregon. said
the dispatch. land he has told me
he has recognized the plan OF Aqua
Prieta' and subordinated, himself
to the provisional government"