Saturday, August 17, 2013

Three Battles At Capital.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 17, 1913:
Zapata's Rebels Driven Back by Federals Just Outside City.
    MEXICO CITY. Aug. 16.— Three engagements between rebel followers of Gen. Emiliano Zapata and Government troops were fought to-day along a line which extended for three-quarters of the distance about the Mexican capital. One fight was just beyond Gaudaloupe, small town two and a half miles outside Mexico City, in which twenty-four rebels were killed. Another occurred beyond Atsecapolcalco, resulting in the killing of eighteen rebels. The third engagement was fought near Milpa Alta. The losses there were not given. The Government forces are driving the rebels backward.
    Of the fights registered, one was to the northeast, one to the northwest, and one southeast of the capital.
    In the battle near Milpa Alta a rebel force numbering more than a thousand men stood off a greatly inferior force under Capt. Pedro Ojeda, a son of Gen. Ojeda, the Federal commander at Guaymas. Capt. Ojeda was hemmed in and he dispatched a small escort for more ammunition. The escort and the ammunition were captured, but Capt. Ojeda cut his way out and recaptured the ammunition.
    Vicious attacks on Dr. William Bayard Hale, who does not hide the fact that he is here for the purpose of advising President Wilson on affairs in Mexico, are contained to-day in almost all the Mexican newspapers.
    The Intransigeante accuses him of being an interventionist "whose greatest desire is to the Stars and Stripes waving over Mexico." Other comments are of a similar tenor.
    Dr. Hale has received a dozen anonymous warnings, either telephoned or written, that he is in danger of arrest or expulsion. He is of opinion that the campaign against him is directed from the United States.

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