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Show j oo I NUEVO LAREDO IS MORE QUIET, CLAIM LAREDO, Tex.. May 8. Nuevo Laredo La-redo was quiet today with Mexican federal officials claiming the backbone of tho revolt broken An advanco guard of reinforcements from Monterey arrived last night and tho remainder of the 400 federal reinforcements rein-forcements whose train is hold up by a burned bridge at Lampozas, sixty miles below the border, were expected today. The international bridge between be-tween Laredo and Nuevo Laredo remained re-mained closed, it is said. The revolting Mexican customs guard today were reported to be at Columbia, 25 miles up the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo, and it was said had been joined by nearly a hundred Mexicans from the Texas side. American Consul Robertson at Nuevo Nue-vo Laredo secured the automobiles and left early today for Lampozas to bring in sixteen American and eight British subjects, isolated there on a p:i3senger train since the-bridge was burned yesterday. S |