Few involved in mexican rising

N° 155

AHSRE L-E-936 F. 104

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California

2 de julio de 1908

Few involved in mexican rising

Indications That Only sixty Unorganized Bandits Were Implicated.

Mexico City, july 1° In a Statement made today on behalf of the Mexican State Department by Secretary of foreign Affairs Senor Federico Gamboa, that official adds:

"In order that the grossly exaggerated reporter regarding the recent trouble in Northern Mexico may be corrected, and in compliance with your request, I am giving you access to certain °facial correspondence which will probe that the contention of the Mexican State Department that the recent troubles had no political significance are well grounded".

A number of telegrams and official documents were thereupon shown the correspondent, which set forth the following facts:

That the recent attacks upon villages of Viesca, Las Vacas and Palomas were made by small bands of malcontents, who were driver lo deeds of desperation by lack of work, consequent hunger and an enmity toward the local officials. These men had been furnished literature of an anarchistic and inflammatory nature by agitators in Los Angeles, San Antonio, Tex., Austin, Tex., and St. Louis. In no instance had a representative man ln the attacking parties nor had the largest group of raiders numbered more than sixty men and that die trouble was practically over."

More than a score of the raiders have been caught and others are being closely pursued by troops.

Del Rio, July 1° There has been no firing on the Mexican border to-day. Everything is quiet at both Ciudad Porfirio Diaz and Las Vacas and Mexican troops have the situation well in hand.