WOMEN IN BATTLE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 9 January 1911, Page 3

WOMEN IN BATTLE

THE REYOLITPiN IN MIX K >. Mexico. November ill. ■ The slumbering fires of revolution have broken into open llanie in several purls of Mexico, principally at Piiebla, the second largest city of the republic, and a! Sa.ita Cruz, which is said to have surrendered to the revolutionists afar several hours of Jierce lighting. At Puebla, where the lighting started on Friday, between lot) and 170 per-on ■ were killed during the battle. Women look part in the fray, shooting from (lie tops of houses, on which they were strongly entrenched. One woman kilb-i the chief of police and another wounded ,i major of infantry. lieports that tli» soldiers have joined the revolutionists are declared false. The (joverimient has made many arrests ami captured arms and ammunition here ami in other cities. There arc no indications to-night of trouble in this city. Details of the lighting in Puebla are meagre, as the (iovernment is using the wires. POUCE CHARfIE MEETING. One hundred persons, including the Chief of Police, were killed in the riots at Puebla to-day, according to the statements of passengers arriving here tonight.

The stories told are Ihat She iroiiblr began this morning when several policemen, headed by the child', atlnnpted to break up a meeting of -anli-re-eleetionists being held in a large hall.

As Chief of Police Miguel Cabrera ami hi- men advanced toward the building a door was opened by a woman, who shot the chief.

A light then began between the police and the occupants. A bomb was thrown I'roin oiii! 01 the windows in ihe mid-t of the policemen and rurahs, the latter ■lmvinir Ijeen called to assist. 130X11! KILLS XIANY. A bomb exploded, killing many. The oilier casualties occurred in the course of lighting which took place in the street. The passengers further asserted that from midnight until they left Puebla in the afternoon, there was continuoiirioting, mid while the anti-re-electionM-had been dislodged from the building, fears were entertained that the disorders were by no means at an end. From other sources in .Mexico City tonight it was learned that the Seventeenth Battalion left 'here late to-day for Puebla by special train, and that other trains were in readiness to transport additional troops to the scene if necessary.

It was officially stated here that IS men had been killed at Puebla. A telegram from Puebla at (i.40 tonight said that at that moment the .first regiment of Federal troops had arrived, as" had nlso a corps of ruralcs. These, under the command of Generals Luis Valle and Eduardo Cauz, were being led against the house in which the rebels were for ihed and were attacking, s'houling, "Long live the .supreme Government!"

The Xladeroistas, as they have cone to be known, were keeping up a hot lire from the windows and balconies.

The wife of Joseph Cerdan, who kilhd the Chief of Police, was killed by the lire of the troops. Several women were among t'hs dead and wounded. XVOXIAX KILLED P.V POLICE. A Inter despatch contained the information that a fortified house had been taken by troops and that 100 rilles and a large quantity of ammunition had been captured. Enrique Creel, secretary of the foreign relations, late to-night authorised the statement that he had no official information as to the number of dead and wounded at Vuebla, but that many had been killed and that bombs and dynamite had been employed by the revolutionists. The trouble, he" said, was confined to Puebla. ' "1 have had reports from the Governors of all the States," he said, ''and can say positively there is no disturbance anywhere iu' the Republic outside of Puebla."

Plans of .the revolutionists included ;in uprising in Mexico City Sunday aftornoon, ami the I'rlieratiou of the thousuiuU of prisoners in IJolem, tin 1 famous city goal, and in the penitentiary. These plans have been frustrated. Details of the anti-Diaz conspiracy, aliened to have been promoted by Francisco I. Matlcro, now a fugitive from Mexico, and which has resulted within the last two days in the arrest of several of the conspirators in this city and elsewhere, came to light to-day, indicating that next Sunday was the date fixed for a general uprising. The conspirators appeared to have extended the operations to the States of Vera Cruz. Hidalgo, ■Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Xuevo Leon, Puelila, Palisco, liuanajuato, Yucatan and Zacateeas. XEW PHBSIDEXT DKCKKI'I).

To the authorities in these districts, orders have been sent to put down any disturbances. Circulars which appear to have been M'lit out by Madero or his agents from San Antonio to persons in this city outline his campaign and announce Madero a- Constitutional President of Mexico. Among other statements is the follnw•mLr:_»l° Francisco Madero. will place myself at the head of a revolutionary parly a»ainst the (iovernineut of Mexico. Between the -20 th and 3Mh of Xovemla-r '1 shall lead my followers against the (iovernnient of Mexico."