Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-05-06

"TeII Me Your Plan Of Campaign"
should be Overthrown at some future
date. Also you have my profound
gratitude and that of my people"
"Tell me your plan Of campaign,
Webster suggested.
"In q secret rendezvous In the
mountains | have 1000 picked men
my fathers veterans. They are armed
with modern rifles and machetes. The
nitrate company, which has been suf
fering from heavy export duties i'm
posed by SarrOs, has loaned me all the
rolling stock of the railroad for one
night. It will be modified at San
Miguel de Padua by next Saturday
night; my troops will arrive late The
same afternoon and entrain at once.
"In the interim all telephone and
telegraph communications with Bue-
naventura will be severed. The night
previous our steamer will have dis
charged her cargo of men and NUM-
lions at San Bruno; chain Of out
posts will at once be- established and
all Communication with the capital
will be shut off.
"On Saturday night, Also the Con-
solidated Fruit company's steamer,
La Estrellita, will make port with 30
Americans in her steerage. These
men will be road-makers and miners
imported by Mr.. ]. S. Webster, and
In order to make certain that they
will come, you have already ordered
them by cable. We have arranged
with the port doctor to give La Es-
trellta a clean bill of health the very
night she arrives. Hence the ships
authorities will not be suspicious, |
hope, when we remove our men after
dark and house them in Lebers ware
house, where they will spend the night
unpaCkng those spades, picks and
shOvels of yours and getting the fac
tory grease off them.
"At o'clock in the morning vari-
GUS citizens of Sobrante, with rebel
lion in their hearts, will begin to mo-
Billie at Leber's warehouse, where
they will be issued rifles and ammuni-
ton and where they will wait until
the action is opened to the south by
the detachment from San Bruno,
which, having marched from San Bru
no the night before, will have arrived
outside the city, and will be awaiting
the signal from me. will attack
from the west-cautiOusly.
"Now, there are 5000 government
troops in the city and in various can
tOnments on the outskirts. These can
tOnments are to be rushed and set
afire; | figure that the confusion Of
our sudden attack will create riot
when l do something that
isn't very popular as war feature
down this way, and that is charge
and keep on coming.
"The government troops will start
to fall back on the city, only to find
themselves flanked by a fierce artil-
Iery fire from the San Bruno cOntln-
gent; the troops from the arsenal, the
guards at the palace and the Fiji
tenth regiment Of infantry now sta
Toned at the Quartet de Infanteria,
next the government palace, will be
post haste to repulse the
attack, and 400 men, with the machine
Jun company waiting In Leber's ware
house, will promptly move upon them
rom the rear and capture the arsenal.
There are a few thousand rifles and a
Ot Of ammunition stored there; 1
Miss my guess If, as soon as the news
If its capture by the rebels spreads
through the city (and l shall have
men to spread it), l shall not have a
ew thousand volunteers eager to help
Sarros.
"0nce cut Off from the arsenal and
he palace, Sarros must fight his way
tut of the city In order to have the
lightest chance to suppress the rebel
Ion, for he will have no refuge in the
'ity. And with the railroad and all
he rolling stock in our hands, with
nut a commlssary for his troops. with
'ut base Of supplies, even should
he government troops fight their way
through, they leave the city in my
lands and I'll recruit and arm my men
nd hunt them down like jack rabbits
It my leisure. Once let the arsenal
nd the palace fall into my hands,
nee let me proclaim myself provis-
Dnal president, once let the people
now that Ricardo Ruey, the beloved,
Ives again in the person Of his son,
nd l tell you, Webster, this country
) saved. How do you like my plan
( campaIgn" /