New Britain herald., 1929-05-14
MEXlCA|VS FINALLY.
 OVERCOME YAQUIS
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Aex1cos Ctty. Aey lS (UF)-Mex- ico's ASscsst wsrriors, the YaQuis at last havs asreed to bs commanded by noa-Ya4ui leaders. For 900 years -3e4 under Spanish rule and 100 under Nexicaa-ths Yaquis main- tainsa tAsir Independence. refusing ts 'bs oeaauersd. Beaten at the end by tAs government. with their coun- try ih ruins. they now % one step further h becoming Mexicanized by thsir acceptance of . foreign com- mlAder.
 Four hundred Yaqui soldiers are It Fort Perote a mountain near Orizaba in the state of Vera Crux. This is the. group which for the first time in history has submitted to . non-Indian leader. The war offices announcement of . change in the or sanjsation of this Yaaui force was regarded aS signifying the disap- pearance of Yaquis n separate units. Hereafter they simply will be part of the army. Col. Enrique Morfin F1guerea has been assigned to the group under the new arrangement.
 The actual conaueror of tho Ya- Quie is Gen. Francisco Manzo, one of the leaders of the present rebellion who recently crossed the United states border at Nogales to escape fallins into federal hands. The Nan 10 campaign. against the Yaauis un- dertaken three years ago was organ ized with 12.o60 troops and eauip- ment which included nine airpianes.
 Contsolied River Valley
 At that time the Yaquis controlled . region extending . hundred miles north of Guaymas in Sonora and which included some of the best lands in the republic. The stretch under Yaaui ownership extended along the Yaqui river valley in dis trict larger than the Imperial valley of California and with water re- sources three times as great as those of the Imperial valley.
 Today the only Yaqui country left in Yaqui power k in the Bacatete mountains. But the power is small. All the warriors are gone or killed. Women and children and old men predominate in the last citadel.
 A in tho present revolution, the rebel Indians in Yaquiland lost their fight partly through the govern ment.s use of the most modern arm of war-the, .airplane. The nine planes that Manxo had on his front flew again and again over Yaqui ter- ritory. bombing and spreading terror. The federal pltnes drove the inhapi- tants of Bacatete. the capital. into the mountains and finally destroyed it .-....... .
 Waated Own Chief
 Ammunition ran low after the war had raged incessantly for many months. the plane raids continued increasingly, and finally. cut off from the world. and beleaguered from the air and all points of the compass. the Yaquis surrendered. Their sur render. however was conditional. They agreed to take service :n the Mexican army provided their own chief. General Ignacio Mori should bs permitted to continue as their head. ..
 Their liberty curtailed by the rigid discipline of the army. the Yaquis were not always good sol- diers although their valor in hsht- ing was unquestioned. The group at Perote was for this reason. per- haps little better of than prisoners.
 The Yaquis still preserve their an- cient language and customs. AL though they are Christians. in com- mon with othcf Indian tribes of Mexico. they have mixed the sym bols of Catholicism with the signs of the old gods.
 While the Mexican government