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Show HUERTA MOVES MYSTERIOUSLY By CHARLES MICHELSON era Cruz, Mexico, May 8. The highway from here to Mexico City is free to all, but the Americans have imposed one restriction that those who pa6s either way shall not be permitted per-mitted to return. General .Mans personally or through his aides inspects every train arriving arriv-ing at or leaving Paso del Macho, detaining those pasengers, deemed suspicious for examination At every station en route there Is another Inspection. The soldiers say that all this is done under orders of General llueita The mall goes without with-out Impediment to the capital, hut there it is oarefully examined and all suspicious letters are opened No mail in allowed to go out of the cap ital. which indicates that the Mexicans Mex-icans are much more afraid of ha-Ing ha-Ing what the. are doing known than we are. As much as 600 bags have been shipped at once from this port packed on the hacks of porters and carried across the gap in the railroad, and loaded on trains on the other side. A good many Americans have gone to Mexico City from here despite the train inspection Most of the men 1 went to look after their families, j Those arriving here from the capital capi-tal loda report that the city is again r,uiel, but the other day they I say two American women were caught by the mob in the Zocalo. beaten and their clothes torn from their bicks and they were forced to watch a procession. the principal feature ot which was a donkey wear Ing a mask representing President Wilson s fare while tied to and trail ing from the animal s tall was the Stars and Stripes. Even the Mexico City newspaper are not allowed to leave the city lr.i lrr- an searched and all paper? taken from them This is said to be due to the belief that the American Amer-ican secret service uses words mirk-ed mirk-ed In the newspapers to communicate. communi-cate. Huerta reeenth sounded all the rebel leaders relative io their willing ness to combine their forces against the United States He Is said to have offered to submit to another election the voters to bo men enlisted under an- recognized leader His offer met with no enthusiasm and gamed him no support except on the west coast where anous small bodies of rebels have joined the federal garrisons. In this light Carranza's decision to accept ac-cept the American occupation of era Cruz is no surprise. Mexico City is now the hotbed of conspiracy, Twenty Twen-ty different Juntas are working to bring about an uprising which would compel Huerta's retirement In favor of their different candidates. |