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Show 'MADERO'S ' V STATEMENT '"'J i Does Not Conslcei .-all of Juarez To 3 " ' Be ' Grcat Importance. 0e! , MEXICO CITY. Feb. 27,-Tho fall , 'of Junrz lacks tb Importance a slm- j - 'liar surrender had when Madero ,, i wrwtod It from Diaz troops Jrui May, ? n the opinion of Mexican officials, j Then it was the crowning ovent of n JJMt 4 loaf; series of operations. It Is con- Xk, r tended, while now similar clrcum- ? l ' stances do not exist, 1 ?t" As to the method of Its taking, Con- FV I sul IJorento carried out Instructions ' l j Ivon to avoid compllcatons with the 1- J l t'nitod States government when he or- ' t I' dcred the garrison to offer no resist- 'ItiB nce U8MjI W&t lhe ncxt Rcn on lno naT ot M1P' tho Mexican sovernmont will be was Q.'iy not made public tonight, I'nomcial- ;J ft jy It wan stated an effort would bn .ijS i made to fitarro out the robelB bj- cut- t i tins off food supplies, this to be ac-)9 ac-)9 ' j compllebed. It Is believed, through tho '4f I co Pcraon le Amoflcan author!- .iJ Notwithstanding the tIowb of tho M jidmlnlstratlon, tho occupation of the t ' j border town la looked upon bv many . j I Mexicans and foreigners as ifkoly to : go far toward putting now animation Ji1 Jnto the revolutionary movement It iutff 'in ovon reported In special dispatches Vi rom EI Pnso rhat th,s constitutes tho trf ' real beginning of the revolution. foWjj; Americans hero who yeatorday wore viw n the verge of panic wore nssured of tajitj aafoty for the present at loaat. but ,j many havo mado preparations to IotTm leave tho country. Qafjl Tho following signed statement was Tj I Riven out by Presidont Madcro upot le jS( being ahown press tllspatchcs an ili nounclng tho surrender: ofi "Tho government doos not consld-djfjj consld-djfjj or Cludad Jnarc7 to be of particular Ri . I stratoglc Importance. Tho proof of , I this Is the fact that It has main's main-'s j lalned there nolthor a largo military V i force nor munitions of war, and has 2 i made no attempt to defend the point, TEl i nH wou' have been tho case had mn ,,,nrcz Docn a plcco of declolvo or oven ,1;1 conBlderablo Importanco to the coun- $lff.j "The delicate situation which a fight Li at Juarez would have precipltatod. 'la mocd tho government to tolegraph 'AS the Mexican consul at El Paso, or- UV, dera to take ajiy action h deemed advisable to prevent tho possibility of shot bolnjr rtred by the combatants combat-ants acroEa tho Internatfonal boundary. bound-ary. HIb orders cavo him the right to aacrifico the poesesHion of Juaroz If necessRrj' to carrj out these in-stmctlonB. in-stmctlonB. j "In view of thow orders. It is evident evi-dent that Consul Llorente has only carried out his Instruction. "The political importance of the taking of Juarez it not tho same nor dooo Jt In any wav approach the character char-acter It did when I lod tho Madero troops against It- Thero hao been no previous military succesooa whlc7i made tho prosont occupation docifllo as was tho caso then and it is not to bo feared that the taking of that point now win ndvanco In tho estimation esti-mation of the public th Importance of the pror.ent revolutionary actlvitico." Minister of Foreign Relations Manuel Man-uel Calero. after an interview with President Madero tonight said he was awaiting a reply from the Mexican ambassador at Washington, who had been Instructed to confor with tho officials of the American government with a view to the permanent suspension suspen-sion of traffic across the boundary at Juaroz as long as that point is in rebel reb-el hnnds. Ambassador Wilson today called the attention of the Mexican government to appeals for protection made to the embassy by ten or more plantations in various parts of the republic whero Amorlcans are menaced by revolutionists. |