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Show HUERTA INTENSELY PRO-AMERICAN United States army officers who know General Iluerta well say he la intensely pro-American. His closest acquaintances on this side of the Hue declare the Mexican's two heroes are George Washington and General Juarez. Victorlano Iluerta was born In the state of Jalisco fifty-five years ago. He fs of Spanish descent. He Is a graduate of the government military college at Chapultepec. He served in the Mexican army until 1902, when he was appointed a general staff officer. The same year he was made a general gen-eral of brigade. In 1912 he was made a general of division. His principal war record dates from August, 1911, when he commanded command-ed the troops sent out by Provisional President De la Barra against the Zapatistas, in the state of Morelos. He served In this campaign until the latter part of October, 1911, when he was recalled to Mexico City, where he remained on duty as a staff officer until March, 1912. Then General Huerta was placed in command of the division of the Lorth. While commanding that division he defeated the Orozquistos troops commanded by Orozco, at Cone Jose, May 12, 1912; at Rellano, May 23, 1912, and Rachimba, July 3, 1912. On July 4, 1912, the day following the battle of Bachimba, General Iluerta sent the 2,'ird Mexican Infantry band, the best band in the Mexican army, to serenade the American military attache, Major Burnside, who was traveling with Huerta. For more than an hour the band played American and Mexican airs. General Huerta's march of 293 miles, In which he had an army of 7,000 men and 25 cannon, from Torreon to Chihuahua, in the campaign against Orozco last year, was described by American army officers as wonderful. The march took him over a country most of which was dry and sandy. |
