APPALLING TALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1928, 10 December 1913, Page 5

APPALLING TALES.

WRECK AND RUIN IN MEXICO. HORRORS OP CIVIL WAR, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrie'nt "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, December 8. "Tlio Times" Mexican correspondent tolls appalling tales of wreck and ruin caused by tho civil war, saying that only a tenth part of the truth has been toltl.

When General Villa arrived' at Torrcon the unauthorised irregular pillaging lvas immediately stopped, because 'General Villa is a stickler for orderly, decent plundering.

CRISIS EXPECTED SOON. (Rec. December 9, 6.40 p.m.) Washington, December 9. A Mexican crisis is expected in a few days' time. General Huerta is again bankrupt, and has notified the Federal generals to make- their own arrangements about paying the- troops—meaning the adoption of rebel methods of pillaging. It is reported from Mexico City that tlio rebels have dynamited a St. Helena freight train, killing 103 soldiers and twenty women. Captain Do La, Pona, who was captured, had his ears cut oft and his eyes and tongue torn out bcfoi'o being shot. The Federals captured l onep dynamiter, and compelled him to sit on a stick or dynamite, which was then exploded, blowing him to pieces. PRESIDENT WILSON'S IMPERIALISM. (Rec. December 10, 0.30 a.m.) London, December 9. Tho financial press comments on President Wilson's Imperialist policy, and upon his determination, directly the Mexican question is • settled, to compel satisfaction witli_ Mr. Bryan's Nioaraguan Treaty, which tho Senate rejected last summer.