Mexican "revolt" sees more shooting

N° 151

AHSRE L-E-936 F. 187

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California

1' de julio de 1908

Mexican "revolt" sees more shooting

Many Spots Are fired, but few fall ln the So-Called Attacks.

Insurgents badly armed

Outbreak regarded as of little importance at the capital.

El Paso (Tex.) june 30- The first revolutionary outbreak in the republic of Mexico beyond the borders of Coahuila ocurred this morning at 4 o'clock when the garrison at Palomas, Chihuahua, seventy miles west of Ibis city, was attacked by a band of fifty men who were repulsed with a loss of one killed and one captured. There were fourteen guards stationed at the Mexican post when the attacking party surprised the town. The most of the insurrectionist were armed with rude weapons and home-made implements of warfare.

According to a dispatch received here from Columbus, N.M. across the river from Palomas, Juan Correon, the Mexican General, has arrived there from Palomas bearing dispatches to his Government concerning the attack. It began when a bomb was thrown into the telegraph office, thus shutting off comunnication whit outside points. In the fight which followed several hundred spots were fired and many bombs were thrown at the headquarters of the officers. Owing to the fact that the bombs were illtimed the officers were able to throw them away before they exploded, thus saving the building and their own lives. The fight lasted one hour, after which the attacking party fled to the mountains west of Palomas. One man was killed, but it seems that he was a non-combatant. One of the revolutionist was seriously wounded and cap¬ture-d. He speaks good english and the Mexican authorities think he is a native of New Mexico.

Monterrey (Mexico), June 29-Troops of the seventh Regiment, which left Matamoros yesterday in pursuit of the bandits who attacked that village, encountered them this afternoon after several hours of the pursuit. No details of the fight have been received here, except that the bandits were defeated and scattered.

Mexico City june 30- Reports reaching this capital from the State of Coahuila and points in the North indicate that conditions have returned to normal Since the Viesca and las Vacas raids no depredations of any kind have been reported. Exaggerated reports of the recent troubles as published by some of the papas of the United States are causing indignation or amusement according as the reader is a Mexican or an American.

Troops on guard at border posts Nice legal questions raised by action of Washington Government.

San Antonio (Tex.), june30-Troops 13. and C. Third United States Cavalry, were stopped here today on route to the maneuvers at Leon Springs and ordered to Del Río to preserve neutrality on the Mexican borders They will join a half-troop front Fort Clark at Del Rio to-night. All of the cavalry is under command of Captain Casper Conrad. General Alberto L Myers, commanding the Department of Texas, is at Leon Springs directing the maneuvers. It is probable that the Ninth Infantry will be sent back to the border posts at Fort Bliss and Fort McIntosh.

Washington, June 30.-American military forces are now in service for the enforcement of the neutrality laws along the Mexican borders,

The employment of American troops for this purpose, by the way, is almost without precedent in recent years, and the law officers of the War Department as well as the Attorney General himself, have been obliged to give close study to the question of the extent to which they may exercise the power of preventing persons entering the United States across the Mexican border.

Under the law no passports are required except in the case of Chinese and Japanese, and about the only other reasonable ground for detention of fugitives seeking to cross the line would be some presumable violation of the immigration cc health inspection laws. So it will be delicate task for the Army officers who are charged with the duty of policing this international boundary line to avert clashes with the civil courts if they undertake to make promiscuous arrests of persons fleeing from Mexico into the United States.