Mexico Complains Of Aid To Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 31, 1913:
Informs Washington Arms and Ammunition Are Passing Across the Border.
ASKS UNITED STATES TO ACT
Huerta's Capital Anxious Because of Rumors That Street Fighting Is to be Renewed.
    MEXICO CITY. March 30.— The Mexican Government has made a formal protest to the American Government against the shipping of arms and ammunition from the United States to the rebels, and has requested that greater vigilance be exercised in guarding the frontier. Mexican officials understand that many consignments of war material, including large numbers of machine guns, have been sent across the border, in some cases even at the regular ports of entry, and are in the hands of the rebels.
    It is pointed out by the same officials that since the rebels are in control of a large part of the frontier, this country is dependent absolutely for the time being on the efforts of the United States to prevent the rebels from obtaining supplies. That the rebels are procuring quantities of ammunition appears to be a fact.
    No notable improvement in the revolutionary situation is apparent. Most of the successes in recent days are credited to the rebels, although severe punishment in minor engagements has been inflicted on the adherents of Col. Carranza, rebel Governor of Coahuila, near Monterey. The report that Carranza and his chief lieutenant, Major Carfias, had been captured has not been confirmed.
    The followers of Carranza appear to be less organized than those of Maytorena in Sonora, but many bands are harassing a wide area throughout Coahuila and in part of Nuevo Leon, and the new organization of rebels in the States of Durango and San Luis Potosi are greatly hampering the progress of the Federals.
    The Government seems to regard the situation in the Northwest as more delicate than that in Coahuila. Gen. José Mier is on his way to take command of the campaign in that territory. The slow mobilization of forces along the Chihuahua-Sonora line continues. These are to be supplemented by troops sent in transports to the west coast ports of Guaymas and Mazatlan. The Government asserts that it soon will have 10,000 men in that region, including many of Orozco's army, commanded by old officers. Thus far few of the former rebels are engaged in the campaign.
    The residents of the capital are nervous because of the continued rumors of friction between President Huerta and Gen. Felix Diaz and of plots and intrigues, even to the fixing of dates when a new battle may be expected in the streets, or the assassination of one or the other of the principals may be perpetrated. On Saturday so keen was the excitement that the President called the newspaper men to the palace after midnight and issued a formal statement that he and Felix Diaz still were friends, and were working in harmony. Huerta's statement was duplicated by Diaz.
    Gen. Geronimo Trevino, who resigned recently as Governor of Nuevo Leon because of his' lack of sympathy with the Huerta Administration, arrived in the capital to-day. He was greeted by officials and escorted by troops, and was received in audience by the President, but no statement has been made as to the object in bringing him here.
    A dispatch from Cuernavaca says it is reported that Pascual Orozco, Sr., has been executed by Zapata's soldiers, but the report is not confirmed.
    That Emiliano Zapata does not intend to recognize the Huerta Government seems to be certain from the fact that he is holding as his prisoners Pascual Orozco, Sr., and four others who accompanied him into the South to negotiate a peace pact with the rebels.
    Zapata's terms include the withdrawal of all Federals from the State of Morelos, but these have been sent informally, instead of by means of the Orozco commission, who have been disarmed and are under guard near Cuautla. The reported execution of two of the Commissioners, who were former leaders under Zapata, is not true.
    It is understood that the Government will resume its campaign of extermination, and in case his father is held or killed it is likely that Gen. Pascual Orozco and his men will have an important rôle in the campaign. The Commissioners were taken to Zapata, who, according to dispatches from Cuautla, was inclined to liberate them, but was prevented from doing so by his own men. The death of Francisco Madero is regarded in Zapata's camp, these dispatches say, as a treasonable act. Orators among the Zapata forces are making speeches to the rebels in which they characterize a surrender as cowardly.

    DURANGO. Mexico. March 30.— Six hundred Federals were defeated recently by a band of rebels 1,000 strong near San Gabriel, thirty-five miles northeast of here. The rebels, according to Federals who are arriving here on foot, captured a trainload of supplies and ammunition. Both sides are said to have suffered heavy losses.