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Show Camera Men in Mexico City Taking Pictures of Battles in a Rain ol Miot and Shell. Actual scenes from the rcenf uprising upris-ing in Mexico City and the ovrrthiow and slaying of President Francisco Madero. following that ol hjs brother. Gustavo, will be shown in pic'nres by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Com-pany. Within an hour if'er word of the militancy of Felix D:i7 had readied the offices of a New York r.. vipapcr. a represenntivc of the company was en i route to Mexico City li? w.i accompanied accom-panied by a raTicra man equipped with the most rapid and dependable photographic photo-graphic outfit obtainable 1 iif two men went directly to Mexico City Both v ere armed with passports and recommendations recom-mendations from the War Department of the United States, obtained after half an hour of rapid-fire telegraphing between New York and Washington They already have taken several thousand feet of film showing the actual battles in the streets, including the attack at-tack on the American Club, and its subsequent sub-sequent destruction by the rebel soldiers, the cannonadmc of the Capitol building, the struggles in the streets, the night attacks and the fearful carnage wrought by the shelling oi the residential sections sec-tions of the city. Utmost danger attended the taking of the pictures Despite their passports and the papers admitting them to every portion ot the cit. the photographer and representative were obliged to use stratrgy to gain advantageous positions posi-tions where they could take pictures pic-tures unmolested On one occasion, while the fighting between flic opposing forces was at its hercrst height, one of the legs oi the tripod was shot from beneath the camera, overturning the instrument in-strument The camera man barely escaped es-caped injur as the bullet sped between his legs He was forced to seize the machine and flee for shelter, with shells ran ,ig about him. throwing debris and walls high in the air. The ord ers issued both by Madero j and Diaz prohibiting the attendance of either Red Cross or White Cross nurses threatcrcd to result in the breaking out of a pestilence As is 'hown in these films, the bo-lies of countless dead and dying soldiers and civilians were Strewn through the streets, from one side of thi rit to the other Mam-scenes Mam-scenes were taken after the battlev showing th 'tificnns ad agony of the wounded |