San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
GALES MAKES
!. A SPEECH At
zAPATA'S TOMB
Pledges Himself to Radi.
calism and Land
Division.
GIVES ALL WARNING
Military Situation Becom-
ing Serious, 1t Is
Reported.
GIVES ALL WARNING

Reports reaching this city from Mex
leo City state that General Plutarco
Elias Gales recently delivered
speech at the tomb of the bandit
EmiliGno Zapata, in which Gales de-
clared that if elected president he
would stand on the Zapatista platform
of land divisions and confiscation and
radicalism, and that all foreigners, con-
servatives and land owners should take
notice.
La Prensa, a newspaper published
in this city under date of April -,
prints :. Mexico City dispatch con.
firming the same with headlines
Gales adopts program of Zapata.
He so declared in loud voice before
the tomb of the bushwhacker" and the
said that he made the statement so
that the reactionarios in Mexico and
foreigners might know his stand.
Say Navy Goes North.
Conflicting reports continue to be re-
ceived with reference to the attitude
of the Mexican rebel navy. While
certain uncorfirmed dispatches from
Mexico City indicate that the Mexican
navy went to Puerto Mexico and sur
rendered to the Oregon government
there are just as strenuous reports and
rumors circulating in this city that
the entire Mexican navy left Progreso
| early this week. sailing northward and
| carried hundreds of soldiers and much
| equipment, and it is even reported
| that there is TO be landing OF the
Adolfista soldiers somewhere in thu
1 ~. 49,. 81 N n
| forming a junction with the armies Of
| General /. Villareal which is severa
thousand strong. and which at last
accounts was at Sofa la Marina.
Other reports are that Genera
Marcial Cava=os and Pancho Coss hav,
formed a junction, somewhere neal
Tampico and that these two armies
| will also operate in Tamaulipas ant
Northern Mexico.
General Salvador Alvarado, who ha:
been appointed commander in chic
OF the revolutionary army by First
| Chief De In Huerta according to re
cent bulletins received in this city from
Fronteras. is believed TO be in com
mand Of the army and now on boart
the Mexican navy steaming north
wards. ..r.
| Two strong columns of Mexican
revolutionary troops have started
drive to recapture the ports of Yer;
Cruz and Puerto Mexico on the cas-
coast, both occupied by Obregon troops
announces a wireless dispatch from
revolutionary headquarters at Frontiers
received here Friday by Reinaldo Els
| para Martinez, agent of the reyolu
ton at San Antonio. The revolutions
wireless station at Merida, Iucatan
has intercepted a dispatch sent Obre-
| gon By General Francisco Urbalcio
his commander Mt Vera Cruz. notify
ing Obregon that he must prepare to
evacuate the city in the face Of a de-
termined attack. the dispatch says.
General Guadalupe Sanchez. head
ing a revolutionary column in the
State of Vera Cruz, has dynamited
the Interocanic railway bridge at San
Francisco on the line between Vera
Cruz and Jalapa, the dispatch says,
and IS now driving at Soledad to dyna-
Mate the National Railway bridge
there, thus cutting off Vera Cruz from
the interior, before he moves in force
on the city.
The revolutionary troops moving on
Puerto Mexico have advanced from
Barra Tonala TO Ixhuatlan, and the
attack on both Vera Cruz and Puerto
Mexico will take place during the
present week. soy the dispatches, which
tell of reports made by revolutionary
secret service agents in both ports,
that many of Obrcgon troops are ready
to throw down their arms and join the
revolution the minute the two cities
are taken.