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Show iDERO OPENS I ATTACK OH THE REBEL FORCES I I Loyal Troops Leave the ji Palace to Attempt Cap- ture of the Arsenal; jjjj 1000 Zapatistas Pass ji Country Club on Way m to the Capital; Maybe ji to Help Diaz. fj TIME OF TERROR IN MEXICO CITY i h Americans Protecting ' i the U. S. Embassy and K Their Homes; Govern- ment at Washington -fe-. Sends Warships to Va- rioug Posts; All is Quiet ?: Along the Border. jfcj ! By International Nows Service. MEXICO CITY. Feb. 10. Loyal tvoopB are moving from tho na- urj tional palace in tho diroctlou or the jsp arsenal, which is held by General Eg Diaz. Bugle cnllr. and sharp firing Hil Indicate that President Madero has ut begun an attack on the rebels. By International Sows Sorvlce. fX; IVIEXICO CITY, Feb. 10. A telephone message jeeeived here Ml just before midnight states that a tliousand'ZapatistEG havo psssed the jj ; Country club on their way to the iIJn capital. The news of their coming S: j ha caused a new outbreak of ox- i;H cltemcnt hero. Vhether they are s ; coming to aid Diaz, or to prey on tho city, Is not known. An additional force of 250 rebels Jv-jj has arrived hero. - j Ily International News Sen-Ice. MEXICO CITY, Fob. 10. All day (.', today the city lay in seeming .1 peace, but in breathless alarm, 't expectant of an attack by President Aladcro's lrooj)s on tho arse- ; ual that was captured yesterday by j., -ji General Felix Diaz after his startling ; release from the military prison nntlcr jtj-jj storm. About noon General Huerta o the government forces led a squad of cav- ; ,t" airy and several batteries into the jj.b streets tribuiarv to the arsenal. Within ' '.'.' five miuutcs cannon and machine guns j' ii had been whiskod into guard action l by the rebel loader aud tho old strong- ,V hold bristled with riflo. The govern mcnt attack was abandoned. T- 1 Sunday Night Quiet. 4 j An unwonted quifit poseBed tho city during tho night that followed yester- dny'a sudden uprising. The otreots around vJ'-J tho. palare, whero 200 wero shot to death. whore Reyes fell dead, where EHas, with- . In twenty minutes of his role as o from !; prison made himself practical dictator f of a republic, wero ollont a the tomb. An occasional shot from a soniry'K rifle. 'i firwl to frighten marnudcre, was all that broko the stillness. And yot tho ctty did not sleep. Tho homes of American residents were nearly ? all under armed guard. American womtn ' , In many Instances ual armed boslde thi ; window. Although no demonstration mr I against foreigners has been openly lndl- 8; 1 catcd, the time of revolution Is one or jjfc ! terror In Mexico CJty. .j; Madero Shows Nerve. Madero is In the pslace. He has nob surrendered. Ho han not resigned. "I will die before I will renounce my n'" right to represent the pooplo of Mcxloo '. with a constitutional pcovemment." ho mid In a incficao to tho rebel leaders , today. if And there is littlo doubt that the pree- V Ident who dared to ride slowly on hln l' great white horse through the streets fjj whorn lay tho iKidles of his followers "t ' yesterday who dared bow blandly to the- ptople while death lurked for him in V overy doorway will keep that pledge and fight to tho end. - t ' Zapata at Hand. ! The end soems near. Outside the clt Genevlev dc Lao, the desperate chieftain of the Zapatistas, who calls himself a i general and who Is' more than that If j ferocious courage makes a general," itas with 3000 mnn awaiting the order of Dlar. j. ;.' ti enter tho street. Dla7, with a. constantly growing army barracked near, la perrosially holding the arsenal key to tho power of the city j (Continued on Page Thie. j. iDH OPENS HIS ATTACK 01 REBELS i - (Continued from Page One.) with a suatd of a thousand pi !;od and loyal mipportorx. Tho altitude of the- rubd l dulullv Irhnnrhiiut mlhftr tlian inonnciriK. Tho re hat been a suidlod anppreaslon of law-lcHHiiesa law-lcHHiiesa In Iho utroetu. Hut evci-a In-stanccH In-stanccH of Khoul robberies roiiBcd the wrath of foreigners. American Women Killed. j Two American wonirii, Mwiuruiil of the j lennt participation in tho trouble, w.it! J shot to dfrfith duriiiR ! lie final battle at ! l!llap'- tr.Uca ycbicrday. Th;y were killed, it is ihouglil by llns maubltie kuiis that blazed from the roof of the nxeeu-tlvc nxeeu-tlvc t-dince. Tliclr hod Ids 0y wlicro thoy it'll until after nightfall. In the duslc of tho evening a bond of fordid robbers of tho deud wont skulking among the i'017)Soh In tiiri HlroetK. The word wont into tli American colony. col-ony. Within live minutwi twenty American?, Ameri-can?, armed with revolvers and guus. liad taken station bosldo tho bodies of the two dead women. The ghouls were frightened fright-ened away by pistol ahois that brought tho extra pollen and soldiery to tho f;ccn. Spaniard Acts as Envoy. Oolotjan. tile Spanith minister, consented consent-ed today to be tho envoy bearing- a. pro-P0fnl pro-P0fnl of Taot from Dlnz to Madera. Tho proposal was that Mudnro resign Immediately Imme-diately and deliver the Kovernment into the handB of DJ:m, nephew of the great Porllrlo, who ruled the nation for so many years. "I will dlo tflrflt,'' replied the president. presi-dent. Acullar and Tjlalic. rebel leaders of power irj the interior, are roportcd to have joined Diaz In tho cllv. Blnnquct is tailing no actlvo part, ostensibly. Me Ib In his home here and admits that ho baa no confidence in lilf own troops. 111b men entered the city last night, one by one;. C'liiiuiahu.i and Puebla. arc reported lo be wholly won by the revolutionists. The most: barbarous warfare hat) been going on in the provinces for the last month, to the peril of many Americans. Dlar. is in possession of Belern prison, the arsenal and two nowdei matraitin. Outside these strategic buildings, his cannon can-non and machine guns hold threatening muzzles down every at root. Quiet Before Storm. Tho only protection that the United States embassy and the homes of United States citizens havo Is si volunteer guard of Americans who watch the buildings night and day armed with what weapons they can get. Everyone understands that tho qulot of the city Is tho quiet of a volcano before eruption. All feel that Madero will never yield; that greater and more deadly struggles are yet to come. The city was supposedly under martini mar-tini law last night, but thero were few members of the police on guard. The solillors wero difficult to distinguish, tt was a question whether it was Madcro's martial low or DIaz'.'i. But undoubtedly the rebels hold the balance of power. Tho nrsonal seised by Diaz yesterday contained 50,000 rllies with ammunition to last an army for threo months. Newspapers Suspend. Several of the newspapers have stopped publication owing to threats El Tmpar-clnl, Tmpar-clnl, & Pais and I?l Dlarlo. The editors edi-tors were afraid to work in tho offices. The mob gathered at the doors of the Mexican Herald, but orles of "No. no," averted an attack upon the building. Public interest centers in the question ques-tion of tho attitude whloh congress may take. It is regarded as not improbable, that the resignation of the Madero administration ad-ministration may be advised. The United Slates embassy wa? guarded during the night by a foreo of twenty Americans selected by former General C. Tl. Agramonte, U. S. A., and commanded by ft. M. Uoulct, a steamship traffic agent. Olhcr.s included In the guard were f. W. Fish and W. V. Patten, Pat-ten, traffic manager and general passenger passen-ger agent, respectively, of tho National railway. Report of Revolt There is a report that the troops at Monterey have revolted and that scones of disorder paralleling thoso ill tho capital capi-tal havo been enacted there. Thc tole-graph tole-graph Is in government control and authentic au-thentic reports cannot be obtained. The death of General Ueyes. tragic and gravely regretted, has been a sourco of gain to tho moral strength of the rebels. The great gray-bearded man shot to death as he led. with Diaz, tho attack on the palace after the two loaders had been set free from prison by yesterday's assault was the signal for unprecedented unprece-dented expressions of public sympathy. The tragedy was followed by the suicide of General Reyes's son Rodolfo. In grief over his father's 'death, the vouug man shot himself through tho head. Young Heyca was an attorney, and had once been counsel to Felix Diaz, the present rebel chlcftian. |
