Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-28

reon and Celaya. The Villa move
ment last until 1919, when a peace
treaty was signed, but Villa died
in ambush several years later. 1t
was during this period that statiS-
ticians estimate 1OO,0 900 Of the total
Of 200, 900 killed by these 10 rebel
lions we're moved down, while the
republic sank from one chaotic
condition to a worse one
II. Hardly had Villa been elm
mated when Felix DiaZ's ambitions
kindled again and with the rem
nants of the Huerta militariSts in
GLIDING Gen. Aurelio Banquet,
Huerta's war secretary, started a
rebellion in Vera Cruz. Diaz gave
up his aspiration to govern Mex
leo as a bad job and left the coun-
try and so far as is known has
sunk into oblivion in New Orleans.
Banquet, who was reported to have
participated in the execution Of
Emperor Macmillan when a lieu
tenant, fell off a cliff and killed
himself when pursued in Vera Cruz
by forces of Gen. Guadalupe San
chez.
Carranza Overthrow
IL. 1t took Generals Alvaro OBJ
lregon and Plutarco Gales two
weeks to overthrow Carranza In
May, 1920. There were only two
battles. Carranza was killed at
| Tlaxcalaltongo in the state of Pu-
ebla.
IS. Gen. Pablo Gonzales tried to
slip into the presidential chair
ahead Of Obregon in the same year
sort OF during the interval of the
death OF Carranza and the election
of General Obregon, and rose in
arms at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon,
against the central government in
Mexico City when Adobe de la
Huerta was provisional president.
He was captured and expelled and
has joined the rank and file of ex-
lies in the United States.
IA. Gen. Manuel Pelez operat-
ing in the rich oil field of Tampico
gave up the rebel attitude he had
assumed for six months against
Carranza when Obregon gained
control of the country and retired
from politics.
IS. In 1921 Gen. Francisco Muir
guia tried to start a rebellion
against President Obregon but was
caught and executed in Durango.
z. S. Supports Oregon
10. In 1923 Adolfo de Ia Huerta,
Obregon'S minister of finance, aided
by Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez lead
the most serious rebellion since the
villa movement and for three
months it was an ever fight be-
tween the rebels who had launched
tnHlr increment in Vera Cruz.
TAKEN the rort and in the west in
me state CT Jalisco where Gen
Enrt1ue Estrada, former ObreCon
secretary Of war was attempting To
City from the west.
aI6n~t OREGON in person took
: ~. The movement broke
Mir r'st two months after the. Unit
"a Sta+os had extended recopnition
to a Mexican government after q
.aose O. seven years and Washing
tca Threw its support towards OBJ
RECON IN ell wavs as it has done il
me latest rebellion against Presi-
dent Portes Gil. After three
months the tide turned in favor Of
the Obregon administration and
such rebel leaders as were not
caught and executed fled from the
country. among them the three
leaders. de Ia Huerta. Sanchez and
Estrada. the first and last now Iiv-
ing in California. and Sanchez he
lleved to be in Cuba. General
CalIeS became president In 1924 in
the 1lrst peaceful election Mexico
a had in many years. since the
Gays OF Porfirio Diaz when the
power was transferred In q routine
matter from one period for the die
cator 20 another. Obregon became
idents." o
Pre- Election Revolt
IL. With the approach OF presi-
oentlal elections in 1928 again and
Ooregon a candidate opposed nv
Generals Francisco r. Serrano and
Arnuifo r.. Gomez. the former his
secretary OF wal at one time. thew
were charged with prematurely
seeking to gain power by bullets in
stead OF ballots. This was In Oc-
tober. 1927, and Serrano was killed
Tor his efforts, while Gomez. sec
onded by a number of generals
held out In the state of Vera CrIlz
Tor about a month until he was rim
down and captured by Gen. Jose
Gonzalo Escobar, then a faithful
OFFICER o. the army, and executed.
10. General Escobar became
rebel commander in chief against
President Portes Gil in the last
and nineteenth of this series of
armed actions so that the hopes Of
the existing revolutionary govern
ment" which originated with the
Oregon administration, that the