Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — MEXICAN WARRIORS WARNED BY TAFT [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN WARRIORS WARNED BY TAFT

Says There Must Be No Firing Across Line. TROOPS TO ENFORCE ORDER Mexico City, an Armed Camp, Awaits Arrival of Rebels—Soldiers Rushed Into Capital for Expected Attack.

Washington, Sept. 13.—With the probability of a battle between the Mexican federal troops and the rebels at Agua Prieta, which is just across the boundary from Douglas, Ariz., President Taft, through the war department, has sent both the federal and rebel commanders peremptory notice that there must be no firing across the line. Generals Steever and Schuyler were instructed to give warning that this government could not submit to and would not permit violation of this notice, and General Steever was directed to so place American troops at Douglas as to enforce the order. F-sderals Get Reinforcements. Telegrams received at the war department announce the arrival at Agua Prieta of a federal force of about 500 Yaqui Indians, in command of General Sanjines. Other forces are on their way to Agua Prieta, traveling by train over American soil through Arizona from Juarez. a A supply of 1,000 Krag rifles and 500 cathines, with ammunition, by the war department, has reached Naco, Ariz., and will be used by General Steever for the arming of Americans on the border should such steps be made necessary by the aggressions of the rebels. Mexico City Armed Camp. Mexico City (by letter to Vera Cruz), Sepj. 13.—Twelve hundred rurales and 500 state ' police have been brought into Mexico City to prepare for the attack Emiliano Zapata has threatened to make on the capital September 16. These, added to tht; garrison of infantry already here, give a force of about 3,000 men for the defense of this city. The rurales are patrolling the streets and the suburbs in mounted squads of 25 to 75 men, night and day, while the 50-odd church towers of the capital are posted with sentries to watch the streets and see that no rioting startSL Ap order has been issued forbid-

ding groups of more than nve persons to congregate at any point within the city and the mounted police have orders to ride down and disperse gatherings of more than this number. Machine Guns on Roofs. As was done at the end of the Diaz regime, machine guns have been posted on the room of the Banco Nacional, the national treasury, the national palace and Chapultepec, the official residence of the president. Along the three suburbs, Tialpam, Guadalupe and Tlalnepantla, through which Zapata has announced he will make hiy attack, especially heavy guards have been posted and the barracks in each of these small towns has been provided with rapid-fire guns and extra supplies of rifles and ammunition. Zapata has assured foreigners that their rights will be respected and urges them to fly the American flag over their homes and places of business, so that his raiders may know whom to protect in case mobs attempt violence toward anyone other than Mexicans.