MEXICO IN REVOLT,

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 5

MEXICO IN REVOLT,

AMERICANS INSTRUCTED TO LEAVE. • AMERICANS INSTRUCTED-ffQ LEAVE, By TcletrapH-Presß Areociitlon-Oopyritrht Washington, March 3. Tlig United States Ambassador (Mr. 11. L. Wilson) at Mexico City has been instructed to warn all Americans thero to withdraw across the 'frontier. Mr. Taft's proclamation, warning American citizens against entering Mexico, is regarded ns indicating that the situation in Mexico is grnvcr than appears on tho surface. RUMOURS OP SECESSION. President Taft and his Cabinet turned ft scrutinising eye toward Mexico to-day (wrote tho \\ ashington correspondent of tho San Francisco "Chronicle on February C). Official documents placed bofore itho President seriously questioned tho loyalty of General Orozco to tho Mexican Federal Government, and intimated that tho. present conditions in tho State, of Chihuahua, bordering on Texas, might develop into a movement of secession, establishing an independent republic in tho north. The President discussed precautionary measures with his official family, and tonight the War Department has sent additional orders to army posts throughout the country to be ready for a possiblo mobilisation; tho Department-of Justico has instructed its agents to exercise all possiblo vigilance in enforcing neutrality, while tho State Department has asked for quick reports from consular agents of any danger in the interior to Americans or their interests. After to-day's Cabinet meeting, tho correspondent added, tho President professed not to be alarmed over tho i situation. It was admitted in official circles that tho separation of Chihuahua, from the rest of Mexico would creato a situation different in many respects from thoso that existed during the last rebellion. It is believed that there would not be. much fighting on the border, for with Juarez in the hands of the Orozco adherents tho new revolutionists would concentrate at tho city of Chihuahua, 200 miles south of the border, where the advance of an army from Mexico City first would be contested. A mossago from Mexico City on the some date stated:—"President Madoro tonight regarded tho situation in tho State of Chihuahua as materially improved. Tho facts concerning conditions there are that Braulio Hernandez, Secretary of the Stuto of Chihuahua, who rose in rebellion on Sunday and took possession of Santa Eulalia, has joined forces with Antonio Rojas, the Vasquista liberated from the penitentiary last week by a mob. Today their men were distributed from Santa Ysabel to San A.ndres. Government troops have been sent in pursuit of thorn."