Horde Of Rebels Moving On Huerta.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 17, 1913:
Dr. Vasquez Gomez Says 20,000 Have Been Ordered to Push Campaign.
EXPECT CRISIS IN A WEEK
Unless Mexico Can Float Foreign Loan, It's Said, Trouble Will Result In Capital.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, April 16.— Plans for operations against Gen. Victoriano Huerta, provisional President of Mexico, by 20,000 insurgents were disclosed to-day by Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez, whose brother, Emilio Vasquez Gomez, once proclaimed himself the head of a provisional Government in the Mexican Republic. Dr. Gomez escaped from Vera Cruz recently, despite attempts by the authorities of that city to detain him. He arrived here under the name of Jose Castillo, accompanied by his son, Francisco Vasquez Gomez, Jr., who was called Rodolfo Castillo.
    Dr. Gomez said the Mexican revolutionists held a general convention today in Hermosillo, capital of the State of Sonora, Mexico, and formed plans for carrying on the campaign against President Huerta and his associate, Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of Gen. Porfirio Diaz, ex-Dictator. He related that representatives of the several elements active in the present uprising agreed in the Sonora capital to issue a proclamation to all revolutionary chieftains, ordering them to concentrate their forces against certain towns and villages now in the hands of the Provisional Government. The Doctor would not admit that he purposed to join the revolutionists.

Calls Mexican Outlook Dark.
    "I consider the political outlook in Mexico extremely dark," said Dr. Gomez to the correspondent of The New York Times. "Military dictatorships every day are becoming more and more repugnant to the people than they were in 1910, when Mexicans arose as one man against the power of Don Porfirio Diaz. No one is resigned to the recent occurrences in Mexico, although it must be admitted that the late President Madero primarily was responsible for them, owing to the fact that he violated almost every plank in the platform of the Grand Assembly which decreed the successful revolution against Porfirio Diaz.
    "The National Convention," the Doctor explained, "agreed among other things to present the candidacy of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., and Vasquez Gomez, but Madero, violating that agreement, insisted on Pino Suarez running for Vice President, thus dividing into two parties those who had promoted the revolution. Francisco Leon de la Barra, who at the present time is playing his last political card in our country, divided the republic still more by presenting himself as a candidate and giving to the nation the rare spectacle of three candidates for the Vice Presidency.
    "Dr. de la Barra," continued Dr. Gomez, "has given up his proposed trip to the United States for the purpose of obtaining recognition from the American Government for Gen. Huerta's régime, for which he is very anxious, because if Huerta fails — and he will fail — De la Barra will be forced completely out of politics and into exile.
    "The Mexican Government," the doctor added, "cannot put down the present revolution in the Northern States. Col. Venustiano Carranza, insurgent Governor of the State of Coahuila, who is at the head of the revolution, already has more than 10,000 men, while ex-Gov. Maytorena of Sonora, who has stormed Ciudad Porfirio Diaz and other Mexican towns in the north, has just as many followers."

Conditions in Very Cruz Bad.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VERA CRUZ, Mex., April 16.— Smallpox is adding to the embarrassments of President Huerta's forces. Ten new cases of the disease were reported in this city to-day — three in the pest house, one in the hospital and six scattered through several streets. The epidemic also is keeping American sailors out of Vera Cruz. The United States warships Georgia and Vermont are half a mile outside the breakwater. All shore liberty has been stopped. Every member of the crew of each vessel has been vaccinated. The officers are taking every precaution to prevent a spread of the malady to the American squadron.
    Financial conditions here are becoming critical. The rate of exchange is rising daily. A Mexican dollar was worth only 40 cents yesterday. It was impossible to obtain exchange on New York or London to-day.
    It is rumored the State Government is crippled for lack of funds to pay troops. Mexico, it is said, cannot obtain a foreign loan until the Huerta Government is recognized generally abroad. No general election will be possible until the republic is pacified, it is believed. A bill was introduced in Congress yesterday deterring the national elections two years or more. It was put forward by the Maderistas to embarrass the Provisional Government.
    Although it is insisted that the better class of Mexicans still is supporting Gen. Huerta's Administration as the only Government possible to the country at present, it is thought an immediate crisis is probable. Unless the central Government can float a foreign loan, say persons likely to know, there probably will be trouble In Mexico City in a week. Pessimism is generally prevalent in regard to the prospect of a wide foreign recognition of the Huerta Government and the flotation of a loan in other countries.

Rebels Start to Attack Guaymas
    NACO, Ariz., April 16.— After a continuous conference of forty-eight hours, 1,200 Constitutionalistas, with all their war equipment, including horses and eighty-three Federal prisoners, and commanded by Gen. Obregon, left in four trains this morning for Hermosillo, Sonora, thence to attack Guaymas. Col. Alvarado and 350 men were left to garrison Naco, Cananea, and Agua Prieta. As the trains started from the station the revolutionists shouted "Viva Madero!"

Smallpox In Guaymas, Too.
    NOGALES. Ariz., April 16.— Although no more meningitis has developed on the cruiser California, smallpox is raging on the shore of Guaymas Bay. As yet the plague has not affected American residents in Empalme.
    The 600 Federals of the Guaymas garrison remain in a suburb of the town awaiting the advance of State troops from Hermosillo. Gen. Obregon's forces from Naco arrived here to-night and will proceed directly to the State Capital to participate in the mobilization of Constitutionalistas at Empalme.