"INCREDIBLY SLACK."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 7

"INCREDIBLY SLACK."

■-■*■■>■ MEXICAN ARMY OFFICERS. DINNER ADJOURNMENT AT j> ■ BATTLE. By Tejesrraph-Prose AKOcliilion-CisDvrliillt "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables, . ■ _ London, January 1:2. The "Times" correspondent at .Mexico City, describing tliv warfare iu Mexico, says:— "T!io Mexican idea of making a koldiw is to ciiiiii liiin in a uniform, give him n. rifle, am) let him fight tlin best, lip can.-- , Tlio soldiers are mostly lncliaiiß, of low intellM'tiif)! scale, ami are recruited under pressure. Many criminals are transferred from tbo prison into tlio army. ■ "The officers arc incredibly slack, in a recent small battlo tlio Kedrnils, using machine rhiis, forced■ ilio rebels io retire, 'flic nature of the' country liiivdo ' it easy to nut off tlioir %etro.ity hut ' the colonel looked at his watch and said; 'Dinner, time,' (old thu busier to '" sound 'Cease lire,' and leisurely retired. /'Tlio army is accompanied by hordes - <)l women, laden with pots and pans. • blankets, and sometimes babies. These form the commissariat, without whom the soldiers of the army could no' move." SANCTUARY IN CUSTODY. REFUGEES' IN THE UNITKD STATEf dice. January 13, 11.10 p.m.) PrDSJtlo (Texas), January 13. It is reported that tlio United States authorities arc interning sis Mexican Federal generals, and 'threo thousand soldiers, fugitives from Ojiunßa, until hostilities throughout Mexico .have end' cd. It is considered that this is tlu only practical method of dealing witit "•' tlio refugees, owing to the likelihood of everyone being shot who may be cap* tured by the rebels. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables (Iteo. January 13, 8.15 p.m.) Mexico City, January 12. It is reported that Gonond Villa cxo» cuted three hundred prisoners' at Ojih- ' aj*a. Tlio rebels arc still uua.., to peiieirate to the south.