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Show DIAZ ADOPTS NEW POLICY. War of Extermination Will be Waged Against the Insurgents, Capture Meaning Death for Rebels. Mexico City The Dlax government, thoroughly aroused by tho spread of brigandage and vandalism Incident to the revolution led by Francisco I." Ma-dero, Ma-dero, and determined to protect property prop-erty and the Integrity of the government govern-ment at any cost, will at once begin to wage against the lawlese element a pitiless war of extermination. Resurrecting a provision of the Mexican constitution not used in fifteen fif-teen years, and acting under Its au thorlzatlon, the government will set aside for six months certain personal guarantees. Those detected in highway high-way robbery, of raiding a village or arm, or train wrecking, or cutting telegraph or telephone wires, or even of removing a spike from a railroad track or throwing a stone at a train will be summarily shot by those making mak-ing the arrest. |