Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — CANTU OPENS WAR ON GOVERNMENT [ARTICLE]

CANTU OPENS WAR ON GOVERNMENT

Mexican Patrol Boat Seized and Captain Slain. BELIEVED CREW ALSO KILLED Peace Envoys Sent to the Governor by Provisional President De La Huerta—Publish Text of Villa Agreement. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 6. —Hostilities have begun at Ensenada in the rebellion of Gov. Estpban Cantu against the Mexican central federal government with seizures by Cantu authorities of the Mexican patrol ship Tecate, killing of Capt. Leonardo Zepeda of the Tecate and arrest or slaying of the crew, according to information brought to San Diego. Seizure of the Tecate and shooting of her captain took place night before last. Offer Terms to Cantu. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. G. —Unconditional surrender was demanded of Gov. Estaban Cantu of the northern district of Lower California by the representatives of Provisional President de la Huerta, who recently conferred with him at Mexicali, it was announced here at the agency of the de facto Mexican government. It was said also that If Cantu immediately ceased activities against the federal government and retired from the governorship., he would he restored to a colonelcy in the federal army, a position he formerly field. Huerta Sends Peace Envoys. Mexico City, Aug. 6.—Provisional President de la Huerta has sent a commission to Estahan Cantu, governor of Lower California, in an effort to dissuade that official from continuing his revolt against the federal government. Hopes are entertained by the provisional president that the conflict can be settled without bloodshed, according to the Universal. Government troops, which will be sent into Lower California to put down the insurrection led by Esteban Cantu, governor of that state, are being mobilized at Guaymas and Puerta Isabel, in the state of Sonora, and at other ports, Gen. P. Elias Calles, secretary of war, said. “Cantu has mot more than 1,000 men,” he added, “and they are not of the flghtfhg kind. Most of them are saloonkeepers and gamblers.” Urges Compulsory Service. Compulsory military service is the only way of solving Mexican military problems,The general declared, and he expressed himself as favoring the establishment of flye military zones—the northern, southern, central. Atlantic and Pacific. The text of the agreement to surrender signed by Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, at Sabinas, Coahuila, on July 28, is published Im dispatches received from San Pedro, Coahuila. The terms are substantially as given in the news dispatches of that day. lliey provide for Villa’s retirement to private life with a guard of 50 men for his own protection. The remainder of his followers get a year’s pay and farm land. Villa himself will live in the hacienda de Canutillo, In the state of Durango. The Villa forces are given as nine generals, 33 colonels, 25 lieutenant colonels, 33 majors, 85 captains, 34 lieutenants, 4J. sublieutenants and 558 noncommissioned officers and privates