HUERTA SHOWS HIS HAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7

HUERTA SHOWS HIS HAND.

SUSPENDS THE CONSTITUTION.

assumes dictatorship,

By Telerrsmh—Press Association—Copyright

Washington, October 14. President lluerta has suspended tho constitution aud declared liimseif Dictator.

In consequentco of this coup d'etat, tlio United States refuses to recognise the forthcoming elections as constitutional. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. Mexico City, October 14. A witness of the recent fighting states that General Alvirez, with four hundred men, were ambushed at Torrcon, and that only four escaped. General Slvirez, when hopolessly surrounded, broko his sword and sat on his liorso calmly waiting till ho was shot. Tlio rebel general removed Alvirez's body to Tqrroon, whero it was conspicuously displayed, suspended from a telegraph polo,

At fcha present moment in Moxico a strong reaction back to General Porfirio Diaz's harshest measures has set in, wrote Mr. Edwin Emerson, the "Outlook's" special correspondent in Mexico, in Juno last. With tlio warning examplo of Madero's despised acts of clemency before _ thoir eyes, the present masters of Mexico propose to Tulo with the clenched fist of their forebears. "Hard blows and 110 more politics" is all the cry, but little attention eeoms to be paid to the necessary alternatives of "bread and good administration." Military men who showed themselves loyal to tho late President Madero havo been killed, and others aro being hounded to death; without any regard to the fact that their military honour and oaths of allegiance tlemantled such loyalty. In several of the States of the Mexican Republic all constitutional guarantees, such as free speech, free press, free gatherings, or tho right of habeas corpus, have been, declared abolished, while in most others tho constitutional guarantees are ignored, and Governors of States, provincial prefects, and mayors are cither arrested and dragged to the capital, or, as In the case of many others, are driven into the bush for fear of being assassinated, as several have been.