Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05
FEDERAL TROOPS Modified.
Government Sends Out Large Forces to
Crush ReyOlutionists.

Government Sends Out Large Forces to
Crush Revolutionists.
MEXICO CITY. March tP.--Fed-
eral troops moved to two far-fiung
fronts today to give battle to rebel
armies which threatened the existing
Mexican government.
Commanding the army of the north
whose objective is recapture of Sonora,
thousand miles to the northwest, was
Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales, secretary of
war, and himself native of the state.
The army of the south was placed
in charge of Gen. Andrea Almazan. 1t
is his task to dislodge the forces of
have captured the State of Vera Cruz
and are now threatening an advance on
Mexico City.
Gen. Gales, as secretary of war, is
commander in-chief of both armies, but
will take the field himself with forces
sent to Sonora for the northern CAM
paign, leaving actual charge of south
ern operations to Almazan.
Rebel Movement Widespread.
Meanwhile, In official government
statements there were indications tho
rebel movement Is more widespread
than the administration has heretofore
admitted. The State of Coahuila was
definitely involved in the revolution with
detection of its military chief, Gen. Jose
GonZalo Escobar, noted in a statement
of President Portes Gil. OaXacan and
isthmian disturbances we're noted in an
official resume of military operations
early today, which said small bodies OF
troops were being sent to suppress the
movement in Oaxaca.
| Dispatches telling of rebel claims that
eight and possibly more states were I'M
plicated in the movement were not SUBJ
: stantiated in the official reports, which
| thus far have named only four, Sonora
and Coahuila in the north and Vera
Cruz and OaXaca in the south. Reports,
however, that Gen. Gales would mobi-
lie his army of the north at Irapuato
| Guanajuato. led to the inference other
OBJECTIONS had occurred or were antici-
pated in the great area between Guiana
juato and Sonora.
Mexico City Quiet.
| Mexico City is quiet. The heavy troop
movements through the city's streets
draw crowds of onlookers, but there
have been no disturbances. These
movements have been principally OF
lSdfdhys ulldIitIy anu IIIOuhidAl ga VIA
! lery, with the majority of forces dis
| patched going in the direction. of Vera
! Cruz, most of them by train.
| The official resume of military &C
tivity yesterday, issued early today, said
| that aeroplanes had flown over Vera
Cruz and dropped pamphlets appealing
to officers and men of the rebel army OF
Gen. Jesus Maria Aguirre to return to
their old allegiance.
| At Valbuena Field the army air force
prepared planes there for use against
the rebels. The camp was hive OF
activity.
Morrow i'm Conference.
Ambassador Morrow, upon his return
from Cuernavaca, hurried to the office
| of Acting Foreign Minister Genaro
Estrada. who, it is presumed. made an
appointment for him with President
Portes Gil Shortly afterward he drove
to Chapultepec Castle and conferred
with the President and with Gen. Gales
| Upon leaving the castle he made II
plain he could exercise his office only
with the Mexican government recog-
nized by the United States and with
which he is accredited.
| A manifesto was issued at the head
quarters of Jose Vasconcelos, candidate
for the nomination of the "Anti-Re-
electionist" party for the presidency
disavowing the revolt and affiTWing al
legiance to the government
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, nominated by
| the Revolutionary party at its Quere'