MEXICO AND UNCLE SAM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 138, 29 October 1912, Page 6

MEXICO AND UNCLE SAM.

A WARNING TO MADERO. 1 MEXICAN OUTRAGES. Sau Francisco, September 10. ' There are signs that the Government of the United States is losing all patience , with the Mexican authorities and their inability to maintain order, fraught as the present situation is with constant danger to the lives and property of Americans in the neighboring republic. A semi-official statement has been made in * Washington that President Taft haii served a warning on President Madera that if at the end of 30 days-he still shows himself unable to protect Amer? can interests in Mexico, the United ■States, will require that he immediately resign. Should Madero refuse,.to te»ifn° it is intimated that. intervention would immediately follow. . Credence is given to the report by the fact tliftt the" Mexican Ambassador at-Washington has left post haste for Mexico' City, evidently on an important, mission. " As a matter of fact; conditions hpe become utterly intolerable in. Mexico. Amongst other American Corpdra:tibn3 that liave appealed to the''"Government at Washington for proteetion-against the 5 attacks of bandits and masI querading as rebels is the Southern Pacij fie Railroad Company. Bodies,. pf.,rebels (containing from 300 to '3OOO nieii have J been pillaging the country through which I the railroad runs, cutting telegraph wires and burning bridges and'stations. In ten days more than two .miles.,of bridges were burned. One train was held tip by a crew of rebels under Eniflio C&mpa 30 miles south of the AiieKcttii border, and partly destroyed. The rebel'ileader himself boarded the tariff,,.fnd;jyjth an •xkibition of extreme defer ? eflce explained to the passengers that tKey. w'olild not' be molested, and that hV merely wanted all the arms and ammunition oii board the train. After the Tebel? liad-, taken ] what few revolvers and cf).r^ri<Jges ; they, could find, the were compelled to drive the train to a. near-by-bridge. The mail, baggage and-'socond-elasfi ■ cars were placed on the bridge- and set on fire. Telegraph lines w£i'e;tied:tp the engine, and when the train started were torn down. Only the, coach and sleeping-car escaped destruction. All the baggage of the passengers .was burned. Campa notified the Southern Paciic Company that he would' bum eVery bridge and station and-piece i.Qf equipment unless the company quit transporting Federal troops. ... _ . The country south of Daiiglas, Arizona, U.S.A., which is a border town, is over-run with lawless > rebels, •In this district are a number of, jnin-. ing camps. The women children } have mostly been sent back to the Unit-

Ed States, but the men who' remain a;re subjected to constant! attScks;' ..Such alarmimg reports of-their straits were sent out that an armed body of cowboys was organised at Dauglas to dash into Mexico and rescue them. An

adequate supply of" rifles' and-60,000 rounds of ammunition were available, and the cowboys wererready to JDjOVfl into Mexico at a moment's notice. Another indication of the perils. by which Americans in the mining districts are endangered is the appeal made to the United States by those in and around

Cananea for arms and ammunition ; t,o protect themselves against. the marauding rebels. The American Government made every effort to get for the threatened Americans 500 guns with'SOO roiinds of ammunition for each weapon. This action was taken with the consent of the Mexican Government, which was, requested to provide a stronlg J escort for the arms. An example of the'outrages perpetrated against the "oufclanders" in Mexico, typical of what is /happening every day, is reported in a despatch yesday from El Tigre, a mining camp in Sonora. A band of Orozco's rebels visited Ysabel station, near El Tigre, and confiscated £2OO Vorth of American property. Then the rebels burned bridges and tore up the track of a railway owned toy a mining corporation. Millions of dollars' worth of American property is stated to be in imminent danger of confiscation or destruction in the State of Sonora.

It ia acts such as these that make it certain 'that Mexico is now closer than it' has been at any previous stage of the present revolution to American intervention. This seems to be required not only to protect Americans, but to save Mexico. The very latest complication is occasioned by bands of rebels dashing across the border and clashing with the United States soldiers. Their intention, it has been said, is to force Uncle Sam to take ail active hand in the cmbroglio. Clearly, the replacing of the dictator Diaz by the successful revolutionist, Madero, has only increased the troubles of Mexico.