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Show PRAYING FOR END OF WAR Many Mexicans Hope For Intervention By Joint Powers Mexico City, Feb 14 Five days of fighting in the streets of the capital has. in the opinion of close observers, done more to change the sentiment ol Mexicans In regard to the intervention than has the whole two-year period of revelution. Months ago a quiet feeling began to develop among a few of the better class of Mexicans in favor of uu'.-ni-assistance, but it round no public ev presslon at that time. This sentiment has steadily grown, however, and the events of the last two days have strengthened It immensely. The question is now frankly discuss ed by foreigners and Mexicans and frequently it is a Mexican citizen who expresses the opinion publicly thai tlo.- United State? or some other power pow-er or powers joiutly should intervene Mexican Women Pray for Intervention In Colonia Juarez last ninht a gathering gath-ering of Mexican women of the bet ter class made no secret of their desire de-sire for Intervention. Their formal statement of their feeling was as follows "Wo are praying for the end of our Country's troubles, even through intervention" in-tervention" Conditions in the capital are stead ily growing worse All business, both public and private, except that connected con-nected with the war has ceased Even the general postofJfice has closed Its doors and many of its employes are carrying rifles in the ranks of the federal army City Almost In Darkness The city was in almost darkness throughout the night owinx to tho cut ting of the electric cables by shells Today provisions of all kinds were scarcer than ever aud pro soured lo unheard-of heights Robberies, burglaries bur-glaries and pett) crimes of all kinds are on the increase owing to th la k. of police protection. The disposition of garbage has become be-come a serious problem and thechang ing breezes bring home to the people the fact that the carcasaes of bun dreds of horse6 killed during the street fighting or the week still lie in the gutters. Government Has Impossible Tak. Foreigners of military experience, who have carefully followed tbe oper adon In connection with the Diax re. volt declared today that In their opln Ion Diaz wcruld be able to hold out Indefinitely. 'The government has an impossible l task in subjugating Diaz, either with heavy guns or by direct assault." declared de-clared one military expert connected with the British legation. The rebela have ammunition enough for several days at least They also have many more machine gunB than they have brought into nse. Their j losaes hitherto have been compara tively light. Their food supplies are IB sufficient. The men are being paid K regularly $2 a day and a large amount 3f money appears to be available for W Lheir cause K Rebel Marksmanship Excellent. R The marksmanship of the rebl ar E tillery haa been excellent and their E ability to sweep all approaches to I? their positions with machine guna jfc makes it appear Inevitable that an K attempt by the Madero forces to rush WP the arsenal would result in slaughter ir An attempt of this sort was madf F in the last hour of last night's battle f when a detachment of federals ad- JL ranced on the arsenal and was repuls- . ed with heavy loss It is believed this ft, experience will cause General Huerta jfcf to abandon such tactics and confine lj future operations to the bombardment t of the rebel positions I Foreign Residents Excited. 1 The death of another woman during T yesterday's fighting further excited j the foreign residents Mrs Green- j field, mother of Harry Greenfield, an employe of a power company, was h killed by a shell In Victoria street. f I This makes the third woman killed fc among the foreign residents. Mrs Greenfield was a Canadian. |