FIGHTING IN MEXICO

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 17 March 1911, Page 5

FIGHTING IN MEXICO

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

A LONG RANGE BATTLE

(Received March 16, 1 p.m.)

NEW YORK, March 15

From the housetops at Presidio, Texas, a long-range battle is visible. Women and girls are providing tea for the lighters. In Mexico martial law starts tomorrow. It is believed rioting will follow in Northern Mexico.

SYDNEY, March 15

Professor Mills, of America, who is an authority on Mexican affairs, in an interview, declared that President Diaz was a despot, who was financed by American money. Throughout his career Diaz lias represented the big interests of American and European capitalists as against the financial interests of his own country. The rebellion is the final outbreak of Ihe people against a long series of outrages.

The leader of the rebellion, General Madero,. is highly educated, and a wealthy ranch owner.

Professor Mills believes the revolution will succeed, but that the United States may suppress the new Government. If so, American capitalists will seek to extend the authority of the United States Government to all Mexican affairs.

UNITED STATES DESIGN,

A SENSATIONAL RUMOUR

(Received Last Night, 1(5.24 o'clock.)

LONDON. March 16,

The interference of the United States in. the Mexican trouble is reported to. be due to an effort to obtain a suzerainty over the Panama Canal. It is rumoured that the Japanese coolies who are landing in Mexico, though nominally industrial, are, in reality, trained soldiers, similar to the Japanese in Hawaii.