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Show PATROLS M BOTH SIOESJF BONER EL PASO, Tex.. Nov. 13. Efforts of the United States military and tlie Mexican Mexi-can secret Fen-ice today arc directed to prevent development of a robel plan to attack Juarez, the Mtstican border town and port of entry so often threatened. Tho arrests Una week here and at San Antonio. Tex., of Colonel Pasctial Oror.co. Sr., n.nd Colonel David do la Fueuto directly resulted from tho premature- exposure- of the rebel plot made known to the war department by Mailoio agouti here. The arrests are made possinio by the ".Toinl-martlal'' lnw which exists along tho American side of the Mexican frontier. fron-tier. Military commanders nt Fort Bliss and at Juarez arc alert- f'atrob; of American and Mexican troops have boon InsUiiled on eithfti- side of the line? Rebels In apparently ap-parently small groups aro pressing to-wu.rds to-wu.rds Juarey. front east and west, but a movement of Mexicans from the American Ameri-can side is most feared by officials. This la evidenced by this arrest In the United Statca of General Oro-co's father and De la Fuente, his chief of staff, who was captured at San Antonio as lie was about lo come here to toko charge of the movement move-ment against Juarez from some point In New Mexico near El Paso. Organization of tlie so-called Political Refugee and Protection league. Is causing officials much anxiety. The organization I was launched a few ibiys ago at. Phoenix. Ari::.. with declared intention of forming a fraternity of Mexicans in the Culled States to defend, morally and materially, refugcon hold on American soil for other than criminul offenses. The large Mexican Mexi-can population of the American border states makes complex the problem should the organization assume such proportions that the small membership fee will make possible a material fund to assist robel activity In Mexico. |