THE MEXICAN INSURGENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 24 November 1910, Page 5

THE MEXICAN INSURGENTS

REVOLUTIONIST CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED. A BATTLE IMMINENT. 3y Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, November 22. The revolutionary leader Madero entered Mexico at the head of his followers. Troops have been despatched against him, and a battle is imminent. A later report from Acambaro, Mexico, states that a body of 300 men freed all the prisoners in the gaols, and having armed themselves, seized the country funds and the municipal hall and engaged the troops. In the fight twenty revolutionists were killed and eighty wounded. Madero is reported to be at the head of 600 insurgents. The Republican troops have been sent northward to meet him. The meeting will probably take place near Laredo. The insurgents have eut the telegraph wires. Hundreds of troops at Gomez and Palaehio have gone over to the insurgents. Mexico, November 22. Heavy fighting is proceeding in the Mexican revolt. President Diaz has assumed command of the troop's. A revolutionist conspiracy for the wholesale assassination of Government, officers has been discovered.

A WIDESPREAD MOVEMENT. A New York letter of November 10 ran as follows:—"The United States looks like having trouble with Mexico. Repeated insults to the American flag and assaults upon American citizens in the towns of Mexico culminated in an antiAmerican demonstration, which began and has developed into an affair of international importance. The whole trouble is the upshot of a lynching in Texas, where a Mexican youth, Ayrone Redriguez, was burned at the stake for the murder of a woman.

"A vigorous protest has been registered by the American Ambassador with the Mexican Foreign Department, and at the same time the Ambassador telegraphed the facts to Washington, and asked for instructions. To-night the trouble was renewed with greater force in the capital. The windows of American business places were smashed by the mob, which, incensed by the recent lynching of a Mexican in Texas, also smashed up the offices of one of the leading newspapers, El Imparcial. The police charged the rioters with drawn swords, and, after a fierce melee, managed to disperse them. Two Americans were killed, one being lynched by being strung up on the outskirts of the city. Americans riding on tramcars were bombarded with stones, and a child that was struck on the head died from its injuries. "Cavalry with drawn sabres charged the crowd and killed three of the rioters. It is reported that an attempt was made to-day on the life of Mr. Wilson, tne American Ambassador;

"The United States Government demanded an instant apology for the murder of the two American citizens. Mr. P. C. Knox, Secretary of State, received from Mr. Wilson, the United States Ambassador in Mexico, a long cypher report, which resulted in the departmental chiefs being hastily summoned to a consultation.

"A searching investigation is to be made into the lynching of the youth Redriguez, and if the facts warrant it the United States will make an apology. But no matter what developments take place in Texas with regard to the lynching there, the Mexican GJovernmcnt will be held responsible for the outrages on American subjects, and reparation will be demanded.

"Revolutionary refugees in Texas asthe anti-American riot is only a blind for covering a widespread revolutionary movement in Mexico, the leaders of which had seized on the lynching incident as an opportunity to gather their forces without interference. The situation is complicated on account of the diplomatic difficulties existing between the United States and Mexico over the latter's friendly attitude towards the former Xicaraguan President, (ieilral Zelaya, who is charged with the murder of two American subjects. The Mexican Foreign Minister recently visited Washington, and offered a settlement, which was not satisfactory."