The Washington times., 1929-04-11
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MEXICO CITY, April IL
I.N.S.).-An alleged plot to
dynamite the private train Of
Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales,
commander-in-chief of the
federal armies, is under in
vestigation at Torreon by the
military police, according to
a dispatch from Torreon to-
day.
This Il the latest of a long list
Of reported assassination plots
against the former president and
now secretary Of war.
A man named Santiago Perez and
q woman are being sought.
Details of the alleged plot are
vague.
Three American built bombing
planes have reached Guadalajara for
service against the religious rebels
They will attack the rebel strong
holds with INT bombs which are
said to have been made in United
States arsenais.
Ell PAso, Tex. April II a.N.S.l
Concentration of Mexican rebel
forces in a small strip of Sonora
lining the international border,
where escape to the United States
will be open, appeared to be the
strategy of revolution leaders today.
Less than hundred miles of
this border territory is now in con-
troll of the rebels. All seaports
have been closed to them and
strong federal columns are reported
closing in from all sides.
Occupies Juarex
A federal army yesterday occupied
Juarez which was hastily evacu.
ated by the command Of Gen Mar
cello Caraveo late Tuesday night. A
civil administration was installed
and the customs house reopened.
Movements Of exports and imports.
held up by embargo while the rebels
held the town, was resumed.
General Caraveo is reported NOV
Ing westward today to join the re-
treating command of Gen. Gonzalo
Escobar, who marches out Of Chi
huahua City three days in advance
Of Caraveo. The State Of Chil1ua-
hua is now said to be clear OF
rebels.
Caraveo and Escobar hope to join
the Sonora forces commanded by
Gen. Francisco Manzo and Gen.
Fausto Topete. This combined force
is converging on Nogales, Sonora,
opposite Nogales Ariz., and Aqua
Prieta, opposite, Douglas, Ariz., the
only border points still held by the
rebels.
q. S. On Watch
Whether American military au-
thorities would permit the rebel
army to enter the United States
and be informed became question
tonight when word was received
from Washington that the Admin
istration there has classified the
rebels as bandits. refusing to recog-
nize them as belligerents.
This, it is believed, will mean that
rebel leaders fleeing into the United ]
States will be arrested and held as
ordinary criminals. to be turned
over to the Mexican federal authori-
ties.
Mexican revoiutionists are not con-.
sidered bandits by the State Depart
ment in the ordinary sense of that
term, Secretary Stimson said today
anent border reports. that rebels
crossing to the American side might
be turned over to the Mexican fed
eral authorities.
Secretary Stimson said his use Of
the word bandits" yesterday had
been nisconstrued. What he meant
was political bandits" and not the
ordinary criminal bandits.
Persons cannot be extradited for
political crimes and it Is into this
category that the Mexican rebels
fall, according to the departments
conception.
With the dispatch of $500 more
American troops to Mexican border
stations, there are now about 1000
soldiers, infantry and cavalry and
artillery, strung out at strategic
points along the border to protect
American lives and property, War
Department officials estimated to-
day.
The reinforcements were ordered
from Fort D. A. Russell, in Wyom-
ing. by Mai. Gen. VIM. Lassiter as
a precautionary measure.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April II e.
N.Sl.-Infantry. cavalry and field
artillery were to take the field today
along the New Mexico and Arizona
borders to protect American interests
where American and Mexican towns
are close to each other in the zone
of the revolution.
Col. Robert Mccleave, chief of staff
of the Eighth. Corps Area, stationed
here, under authority Of General
Lassiter, ordered the following units
into service:
One regiment Of infantry from
Fort D. A. Russell to Bisbee, Ariz.;
one battalion of field artillery and
troops Of cavalry from Fort Bliss to
Hachita, n. NJ.