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Show oo NEARER TO A CLASH. Mexico is said to be preparing to resist invasion. A dispatch from El Paso says a Mexican demolition detachment de-tachment of engineers brought fllty cases of dynamite to Nuevo Laredo and fifty to Lampasos. It has become known on the American side of the river that every one of the steel bridges between Nuevo Laredo and Monterey has been prepared for dynamiting, dyna-miting, though the charges have not yet been placed in the prepared spots. These bridges are at Rodriguez, Sali nas, Vallaldama and Victoria and 1 destroyed would take months to rebuild, re-build, as they croBs deep canyons. The Mexican consulate at Fresldio, Texas, is known to have received instructions in-structions from Ignacio Bonillas, Mex lean ambassador at Washington, to as certain whether Americans applying for passporta into Mexico hae hod previous military service in the United States and to notify the Mexican ambassador am-bassador with a request for instructions instruc-tions before approving passports of any former American soldier. The Mexican official explanation of this move is that oil companies have stan-ed stan-ed a move to employ ex service men and send them to their Mexlcsn pror ertles. Whether other consuls ot Mox- ico along the border have received similar Instructions Is not known. It Is said the Moxicans nre getdng machine guns and ammunition from Liege, Belgium. It is proper for the Moxicans to be preparing against intervention, but the United States government should not fail to act with great vigor and if a decision is roache I to go into Mexico, the movement should be In the nature of a surprise and the blow a struck should be powerful. There should be no purely persuasive campaign, cam-paign, but an invasion Intended to : clear up the Mexican situation for i all time. i A report made to the senate foreign for-eign relations sub-comiv.ltt . e investi- eating Mexican affairs declu.es that from April 10 to July 31, of this year, I there were 317 major outbreaks of dls- order reported in new-papers under 'the close scrutiny nf th" Mexican Ml thoritles i Of the thirty states and territories In Mexico, all but lower I'nliiornir, which Is under practically independent inde-pendent control, furnished their quota of violence and bloodshed. Of the 317 outbreaks uf violence reported, re-ported, the Mexican newspapers ascribed as-cribed 272 to the activity of varioun factions in rebellion againrt the ('nr-ranza ('nr-ranza government, 15 to the Jepn da-tlons da-tlons of organized bandits, fifteen to the lawlessness of police and military officials, and three to clashes between political partisans Two newspaper.--. Excelsior, and El Universal, published In Mexico City the seat ol the I u-ranza u-ranza government, report' id 312 of these outbreaks, four were reported by Correo del Norte, published at Chihuahua Chi-huahua City, and one was reported b El Heraldo of Chihuahua City. It is significant that these outbtt k were reported m Miea.i newspapers, newspa-pers, for during June th: CerhttltB authorities arrested and deported to the disturbed district of fhllitiihua a group of newspaper editors whoae pub llcations had displeased tile government govern-ment by printing accounts of various disturbances. Mexico's transportation system the maintenance of which is viiul to gov-ernmental gov-ernmental control and to the lubSlfl tence of the people, was Uv pUrtlcular prey of the rebel bands. Hut jng the 112 days there were reported In IS states. 72 instances of train.-; dynanut Bfl, looted and burned, railroad Btfl tions attacked, and railroad .racks demolished de-molished by rebellious marauders op erating against the Carranza govern ment. In addition to these direct attacks at-tacks on railroads, the various rebel forces during the period covered ! y the reports raided or occupied Bl of the more populous towns on the various va-rious railroad lines, looting, burning and killing. In the states ol Vera Cruz and Puebla, the reports showed thirty direct attacks on the Important railroad lines which connect the Mexi-can Mexi-can capital with the coast, al! of which Caused more or less extended ii.terrup- I tions of traffic. The state of Puebla during -he pt rlod was the scene of thirty-four outbreaks out-breaks of violence. Of these more man nan occurred in the Imrredn;' vicinity of Puebla City, one of the larger cities of Mexico. One of th-se attacks reported in Excelsior, June 15, was directed against the bacleuda of William Jenkins, American consular consu-lar agent at Puebla, who during October Oc-tober was captured and held for r:.:i som by the rebels. In the June at I tack the hacienda was looteJ. and the manager killed. Excelsior rpor'ed on June 12, that the entire Currants gai-' rison at San Marcos, Puebla, nad re-' voited while rebels were lostmg I towns, kidnaping women and men, and dynamiting trains throughout the state. At Barranca Hon In, within ten kilometers (about seven miles) ot Puebla f'ity, a passenger Tain from Mexico City wa6 held up by a rebel detachment de-tachment nr. |
