FIGHTING IN MEXICO

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 260, 24 March 1911, Page 5

FIGHTING IN MEXICO

' STARVING FEDERAL FORCES. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Mexico, March 22. It is reported from El Pa. a o that the insurgents are clearing the war zone of provisions, thus attempting to starve the Federal troops. "MALICIOUS NEWSPAPER STORIES." Received 23, 11.10 pjn. New York, March 23. President Taft assured the Japanese ambassador that the statements that Japanese activity in Mexico had caused the movement of the United States troops were utterly unfounded. They ■were simply malicious newspaper stories. "FIGHT OR BE SHOT." Received 23, 11.10 p.m. Mexico City, March 23. The insurgents who capture Federal soldiers offer them the alternatives of joining the rebels or being shot. This action has been taken in retaliation for President Diaz suspending personal guarantees in order to exterminate the rebels. New York messages to Sydney papers state that stories of lintense suffering throughout the whole of northern Mexico have reached there from El Paso. A courier, who walked to that point from the north of Chihuahua, reports that famine is imminent, and 25,000 people are faced with the danger of starvation. People are fearing that the siege oi Chihuahua, which has already lasted eight days, will soon result in disease and death, and numbers have already received permission to leave the place with her children. They are now roaming the country side. Speaking at Milwaukee, Congressman Berger, a Labor orator, stated that President Taft and his Government were going back on the best of the traditions of a great republic when thev mobilised an army in order to uphold in a neighboring country's machinery under which even the elementary-rights of civil government were denied to the great majority.