Show Yaqui Indians Slice Off Soles of Victims Feet and Leave Them Thein In Desert Wild Tribe Has Never Been Subdued in Years Believed to Be Descendants Descendant of Mongolians As Chinese Can Understand Their Speech General Obregon Is Irish But Born in Mexico No Mercy Is Shown Either Side When Captured jr iY JOHN CROSBY Special yf qi 1 Site h CopyrIght 1926 1 2 By The Tho Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association U AR to the knife knit and the tor- tor torr ton tor-It tor 11 r turo lure tiro firo Is Imminent In Mex Mex- Mexico tc leo ico o And one of it Its Us concurrent phases may be b greatly heightened danger daner tor for Americans who like Jacob Rosenthal or of o Woodmere L murdered I-murdered I murdered this week by kid kid- kid kidnapers I ap venture rs venture Into the tho bandIt Infested country south of ot the Rio Grande If It the subjugation of o the tho re- re revolting re revolting Yaqui tribesmen In Du- Du Durango Durango Du and ond Sonora Is undertaken in earnest by the Mexican gov- gov government government BOV It will Involve the use of a D large part of ot the thIS Mexican army Transfer ot of these troops to the west coast would lea re both Mexicans and foreigners In other sections at the tho mercy rcy of bandit bands Quarter will not be asked nor given In any bel between Mexican troops and the ho according to latest reports ave e slain General Alvaro Obre- Obre Obregon con Obre-con Eon gon captured several days day ago T LI LIKE CHINESE The rho wage war In the same way ay as the hordes of Khan the tho Tartar Tart chief chief- chieftain tam tain from whose soldiers anthro anthro- anthropologists believe they nee are descend descend- descended descended ed d They are arc distinct from from the theM M YM and t the e other her Mexican e tribes ana ano Dune and other ph physical character character- characteristics characterIstics characteristics are life distinctively Mongolian They have a a language nil nfl their own and It Is notable that the Chinese In Sonora are able ablo to Un- Un Understand un understand It it Since Cortez's Cortex's time efforts have hae been made to subjugate this race without success President For Por- Por-firlo Por Diaz In the height of ot his power when the Mexican army and lila his were ere at a high highpoint highpoint poInt ot of efficiency was wa unable to accomplish it It Mexican officers In his day the tho last time tim an attempt was as made to overcome the tribes feared capture far tar more moro than death In battles tor for the they knew capture meant torture and hor hor- horrible hor- hor horrible horrible mutilation ICAR re CAPTURE C The captured on the theother theother theother other hand are arc equally In dread of at capture In the last campaign prisoners were deported In fri many Instances to the Hennequin plan plan- plantations plantations of ot Yucatan hundreds of miles from their homes and fam- fam families fam families illes and forced to 10 work ork under condItions and In a climate which they y feared worse than death Life Is not held very cry dearly either In in the tho M Mexican army or oramon among amonI the Each side sido Is composed compost of ot fatalists and mercy I not a predominant char char- characteristic The writer personally has seen the bodies bodic ot of Yaqui vie vic victims vic victims tims the tho th soles sole of ot whose feet had been sliced off oft and who ho were then turne turned 1 loose to wander through sa sands of the tho Durango deserts IN 1 WILD COUNTRY COU The approaches to the Yaqui Taqui strongholds in the tho Sierra Madre mountains of o Durango and nd So- So Soflora So Sonora nora flora are aro almost Impregnable The range Is Impassable for tor hundreds of miles mile to any vehicle The tra- tra traverses traverses tra traverses verses are ar made mad on foot toot or on mule back and require days das da of marching Much of the tha country is still sua marked tierra Incognita unknown n unknown land on land on the tho Mexican government maps In those thos fastnesses the lived lI under almost the same as conditions as In the days das of Con Cor- Cortz tz Cor tz When Comingo and Arrieta Arnieta subordinates of Pancho Villa captured Durango Duranto In 1913 their Yaqui followers were armed with Kith Ith bows bow and arrows arrow and wore little but a n blanket and a breech breechclout breechclout breechclout clout The Tho first articles article taken as loot by the Indians were the tho morning coats striped trousers and top hats of o the th German con con- consul con consul sul lul and his and aides aides and those who ho saw the five tiTe savages who secured them parading paradine around the cathedral ro rat ral 1 plaza In this formal regalia with bows s bow and arrows arros und and torn tom torn tom will never ne torset this the sight SHOOT ECil E To fight Is as a naturAl to the as to breathe It ts Is always alwa's their custom when starling on an expedition to fire tire a 0 salvo In the theair theair theair air At Vera Vcra Cruz Crus Cru in HIS 1911 wore were loaded inside and on top ot of three freIght cars cau car bound for Guadalajara at midnight Those fired their salvo alvo but fired It through the roofs roof and ond a pitched battle batlle was as waged for 40 minutes until General Candido Aguilar succeeded in calling II a ahalt ahalt halt Over O were killed hilled and anda a AN AS IRISH MEXICAN l General Obregon whom the are said Mid now to regard as asan asan asan an enem enemy depend depended d on them for much of bi Ills his success ii lit the field and for tor his safety at nt home lie JIe was always alwa's guarded by Yaqui troops Obregon although a Mex Mexican ican lean by birth Is as Irish as Paddys Paddy's pig pig- fl He speaks Yaqui perfectly and has haa the Celtic abil- abil ability abU abil ability ity ot of o gaining the confidence of sa savage vago races With modern arms and am- am ammunition ammunition am ammunition the tribesmen can be counted on to offer R a resistance to the go to troops and the tho conflict bids fair to be not only bloody but long drawn out |