Monday, June 17, 2013

Arms For Mexican Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 17, 1913:
Big Schooner on the Way from Havana — Journalists Executed.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, June 16.— It was learned to-day that a large schooner laden with rapid-fire guns and much ammunition sailed from Havana for Mexico last Friday night. The vessel is in charge of the Mexicans Vicente Segura and Alfredo Rodriguez.
    The schooner was bought and loaded at New Orleans. She took on a number of Mexican revolutionists here.
    Passengers arriving from Mexico to-day report that four newspaper men have been executed by the rebels at Oaxaca.

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