Says revolution has commenced

Nº 147

AHSRE L-E-935 F. 111.2

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California

29 de junio de 1908

Says revolution has commenced

Mexican in jail at Los Angeles asserts that outbreak is serious.

Los Angeles, june 28.-Ricardo Flores Magon, president of the revolutionary junta, who has been in custody here for many months on a charge of violating the neutrality laws of the United States, and who is accused of having incited a revolution against the Mexican Government in a paper which he edited and through connection with a widespread campaign in the South-west, to-day declared that the outbreaks reported from the Mexican territory during the past forty-eight hours are part of an organized movement. Magon, whose removal to Arizona has been resisted in successive proceedings which have brought the case before the Supreme Court of the United States, predicts that the revolution will be serious.

Magon raid: "If this revolt against the Mexican authorities lasts three months, until all the people of Mexico can know that it is going on, it will result in the com¬plete overthrow of the Mexican Government. May 15th the revolutionists in Mexico issued a manifesto which was distributed broadcast over all Mexico and to all Mexicans of favorable politics in the Southern States of the United States. This manifesto called on the Mexican patriots to take up arms against the Government and set the date for the beginning of the revolution on July 25th.

"I believe that the present outburst must be due to a sudden wave of enthusiasm for reform. What we want now is time. The means of communication in Mexico are very poor. If the outburst lasts three months nothing can stop it. The people want a new Government and new laws, but not all of them know yet that an opportunity to obtain these things is prepared. What we are fighting for most is trial by jury, the observance of the law of habeas corpus and the downfall of the Diaz regime."