Mexico To Ask Our Aid.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 24, 1913:
Wants Mail to Revolutionists Held Up — Fillbuster Successful.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, June 23.— The Mexican Government hopes to arrange with the United States some means of intercepting mail directed to the revolutionists, according to Pedro Enriquez, a Mexican Postal Inspector, who arrived to-day from Vera Cruz. Enriquez is going to Washington to-morrow to take up the matter with the Government. He says he has an easy plan whereby the mail can be intercepted at the frontier.
    Revolutionists arriving from Mexico to-day say that the expedition which left Havana on June 13 with arms has safely landed at Campeche.

    DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 23.— Reports that Gen. Pedro Ojeda, the Federal commander in Sonora, had surrendered after a four-day battle at Ortiz were denied to-day by the Constitutional junta in Douglas. Official messages from Hermosillo said the battle was resumed to-day. Junta, members asserted, however, that Ojeda was surrounded and cut off from his base of supplies.

    EAGLE PASS, Texas, June 23.— A "third degree" with loaded rifles was given to C. H. Rippeteau, an American traveling salesman of Dallas, Texas, who was released to-day by the Constitutionalists at Piedras Negras, Mexico, and escorted safely to this city. Rippeteau had been held for several days charged with carrying Federal messages through the Constitutionalists' lines in Coahuila State.
    Thursday night, at Columbia, Mexico, he said, efforts were made to get him to confess that he had been laying dynamite about Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the scene of recent fighting. He denied the charges. At 3 A.M., he said, he was aroused from sleep and questioned again about the dynamite.
    A firing squad then escorted him several hundred yards from the camp where he was a prisoner and told him he would be shot immediately. His watch and money were taken from him and he was asked to give the name of some one to whom he wished them sent. Then the squad leveled their rifles at his breast, keeping him standing, he said, for what seemed to him several minutes, awaiting the command "Fire." The order was not given. Instead, after a long wait, rifles were lowered and he was escorted back to camp. He was then brought to Piedras Negras and released.