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Show RUMORS PROVE FALSE. From time to time refugees arriving at Vera Cruz from Mexico City bring stories of uprisings and rumors of uprisings up-risings against Dictator Huerta, yet the one-eyed old J Indian with a well developed devel-oped taste for brandy, is still on the job and the people of the capital city biand just as much in awo of him as ever they did. Moreover, there are no present pres-ent indications that the dictator has even the remotest intention of resigning resign-ing or that he will not die fighting if the constitutionalists finally make an attack upon the city. One of tho latest of these stoiies is to the effect that General Velasco had protested against taking the field with a few thousand raw recruits who joined the army on the expectation of war with the United Slates, but who were sent out to give battle to Villa. Velasco Ve-lasco is said to have insisted that any attempt to stop the rebels with the force at his .command would result in useless slaughter, and that no possible good would result. "Whereupon Huerta is said to have told the federal general that he must fight or take the consequences, conse-quences, presumably au ignominious death.- Velasco moved northward with his recruits and prepared to resist the advance ad-vance of. Villa. From another source than Vera Cruz comes the news that j c-lasco and his meu have gone ovci to the rebels and that nothing but flight, remains for Huerta. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately this story is no more true than the others. Velasco still commands com-mands the federal forces and is doing the best he can to check the march of ' tho victorious constitutionalists. Lew people would be disposed to blame the officer, however, should he decide to assist in the elimination of the dictator, dic-tator, who is- hound to lose iu the end. |