The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-02-14
VERA CRUZ FALLS;
LA HUERTA FLEES
U. S. Consul Notifies Washington
of Retreat Before Advancing
Army of Pres. 0bregon.
END or RESURRECTION DENIED
Rebel CHIEF Takes Ship for Unknown
Port-Richmond In Harbor Guard
ing Americans-U. S. consuIs
Forecast End Of Rebellion.

Washington. Cruz has been
evacuated by the de la Huerta rebels.
This announcement was made at the
State Department following reports
received here from Consul Wood at
Vera Cruz.
The rebels have been put to fight
by the advance OF Federal forces I'M
der General Martinez. official reports
state, and the fevolutionists are fee
ing in Wild disorder in the general d.
rection of Tuxpam to the north and
Puerto Mexico to the south.
Official reports received here by
Manuel Teller. Charge fAffaires Of
the Mexican Embassy state that
.Adolfo de la Huerta, leader of the re-
volt, abandoned Vera Cruz with a
small band Of supporters.
The u. S. S. Rochester is still at
Vera Cruz, 1t was announced at the
State Department, and will remain
there until quiet has been restored on
the Vera Cruz front.
The fall Of Vera Cruz, following sue
cessive victories by Government
troops on the entire eastern front, is
believed by officials to be the begin
ming of the end of the revolution. Fed
eral troops have emerged victorious
in all their battles within the last
week, and these victories, with tie
capture of large quantities Of supplies,
have stripped the rebels of strength.
1t is now believed In official circles
that IL the Mexican Federal forces
can administer as decisive defeat
to the rebels in the Tuxpam region
as was administered to them on the
Vera Cruz front the revolution will
come to en- end.
Large bodies of rebel troops station
ed on the Vera Cruz front have sur
rendered TO President Obregon's
forces without battle, official dis
patches state, adding that the morale
of de la Huerta's revolutionists is
very low, that majority OF his men
were content to admit defeat without
giving battle, and that they went over
to the Federal lines In large numbers,
taking With them their arms and sup
plies. Rebel troops who engaged in
battle with the Federal forces were re-
ported to have suffered terrible losses
and were forced to retreat in great
confusion,
President Obregon declared that the
fall of Vera Cruz was the most clever
ly executed movement during the
revolution, and he believes that the
rebel stronghold in the region of Tux
pam and Puerto Mexico will now fall.
following the dispatch there of Gov
eminent tropE used in the Vera Cruz
campaign.
Federal Force Advancing on Vera Cruz
Mexico Dispatches from the
Presidential train at Irapuato an
nounce that Adolfo de la Huerta. lead
er of the rebel forces at Vera Cruz,
has abandon I'd that port and COM
plete evacuation of Vera Cruz by the
rebels has taken place. The troops
have left for the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec, while de la Huerta, with his
Cabinet, left on board ship for an
unknown destination.
The immense steel bridge on the
Mexican Railway, known as the
Puente de Metlac, reported destroyed
by rebels, was not seriously damaged
1t will be repaired and trains will be
able to use the bridge in three days
Excelsior says four destroyers pur-
chased by the Mexican Government
are 500 tons displacement and armed
with four Colt 75-millimeter cannon
with four rapid fire guns. These ships
are stated to be en- route to Vera
Cruz to cut the rebel retreat to Puerto
Mexico or Yucatan.
General P'utarco Elias Gales an
nounced he would be candidate for
the Presidency. In a short statement
General Gales says that after the
campaign against the Villistas, now in
revolt in the State of Chihuahua, he
will resign from the army and devote
his time to the campaign, for the
elections are called for July.