MEXICO'S REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 5

MEXICO'S REVOLT.

KEBELS BLOW UP A BANK. By Telegraph-Press Aseociatlon-Copyrijht Mexico City, March 10. Drunken rebel soldiers raided the vaults of the National Bank of Juarez, and secured seventeen thousand dollars (.£3400). They then blew up the structure with dynamite, and burnt vnluable securities. "The situation in Mexico," wrote the s?an Die<p "L'nion" recently, "while not desperate, ; s exceedingly grave. KofiMante to the Government, is in progress in mnny parts uf the Republic. It Tnn?cs from petty insurrection to organised revolution, it. would be a bitter pill for the Miideristas to resort to the Diaz loiicy of suppression, which they denounced so strongly. ■ They may iind themselves driven to it, 'however. In the United States during the Civil War tho press of tho North was far from free, notwithstanding the guarantee of the Constitution. Tho so-called 'copperhead' journals several times found themselves in trouWn with the Federal authorities, and got; the worst of it, 100. Perhaps tho Mexican papers that aro making so reekless use of their now liberty would do better to exorcise more discretion."