Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — MEXICAN TROOPS SUFFER REVERSES [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN TROOPS SUFFER REVERSES

Several Towns Reported Taken by the Revolutionists. RESPECT AMERICAN INTERESTS Rebels Respecting Madero’s Orders ir Detail and Are Taking No Goods That They Dq Not Pay For—--167 Soldiers Missing.

El Paso. Tex., Dec. 2. — Reports from Chihuahua declare that Mexican troops were either killed or taken prisoners in the battle at Pedernales, fought fifty miles from Chihuahua. It is stated that 167 soldiers were sent out and that none of them returned, nor have they been heard of since. There is ample confirmation of the statement that the rebels have control of every town between Chihuahua and Madera, on the Chihuahua and Pacific road, but they are rot molesting Americans and they are allowing all trains to operate again. At La Junta, a junction point on the line, the insurrectos have twenty Mexican soldiers prisoners. As soon as additional soldiers arrive from the /interior, they will be sent against the insurrectos, but the latter are entranched in the mountains. They are respecting Madero’s orders in every particular and are taking nothing they can’t pay for, and molesting no Americans nor other foreigners. It is reported that the need for troops in Yucatan is preventing the Mexican government from sending the necessary number to Chihuahua to put down the trouble. A Mexico City dispatch reports that there is trouble in YUcatan and that soldiers have been gent there. An American in from the Madera district is quoted as follows In the Herald: “The insurrectos are holding Minaca, Guerrero, Las Escobas, Basachu, Bocoyna, La Junta, Pedernales and El Carpio. When the Insurrectos took Guerrero, they went to two ■tories owned by Mexicans and took S6OO worth of goods. Then they went to a German’s store and got. S2OO ■worth of provisions and paid for them. Later then went to the German’s store and took some dynamite and two days later returned and paid for it. “The captain explained that they did not awaken the proprietor the night they got the dynamite, because they feared to frighten his wife and mother-in-law.”

Minaca is the base of supplies, and there the insurrectos made Jefe Politico Antilion swear allegiance to Madero. He later escaped to Chihuahua by disguising ihmself. Whenever the insurrectos capture a soldier they compel him to discard his uniform and cap and put on a serape and straw hat similar to those worn by the mountaineers.