We Let Madero Army Cross Our Territory.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 11, 1912:
Movement Needed to Enable Mexico to Crush Insurrectos in Sonora.
REBELS FAIL AT OJINAGA
Intervention Talk Strange, Madero Thinks — Situation Has Improved, Secretary Says.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Sept 10.— Co-operating with the United States, President Madero of Mexico has at last taken decisive steps to end that part of the revolution that has given this country most concern, because of its location along the northern frontier in the zone of American colonization. Last night in secret session the Mexican Senate authorized the sending of Mexican troops through American territory and to-day, with the prompt assent of the United States, 1,200 Mexican soldiers entrained at El Paso to proceed into Arizona, there crossing into the State of Sonora, to take up active operations against the large bands of rebels under Gen. Salazar.
    Great hope is felt here that the expedition through American territory will bring on a decisive engagement that may end the northern part of the insurrection, and leave the Mexican Government free to centre its efforts on wiping out the organized bandits under Zapata to the south. In order to make the blow from the State Department made every effort to-day to keep the move secret. The information came out later, and at once changed the whole aspect of the Mexican situation. These dispatches the rear more effective against Salazar pointed out last night that Madero was doing his best, and had actually succeeded in throwing 500 regulars into Cananea, the seat of greatest danger to American colonists. To-day the State Department supplemented that information with statements that other troops were being concentrated for action in the northern districts of Sonora, These regulars on one side, when they are assisted by the 1,200 men, will drop on the insurgents from the American border, and will be able, it is supposed here, to corner the rebels and wipe them out.
    The insurgents themselves seem to be planning some general move of their own, and the concentration that is resulting may make easier the final campaign of the regulars against them. Heretofore the strength of the rebels has been their remoteness from railroads, and their elusive guerrilla tactics. But dispatches from Gen. Steever and Consuls in the invested area explain to-day that just now the rebels are concentrating, gathering mules and horses by every possible method, even crossing into the United States for the purpose, and that they are evidently preparing for forced marches for some destination unknown.
    This plan explains fully the recent desperate raids of the rebels into American territory. It also explains the first serious robbery of American colonists, though receipts were given for property taken, as if with the intention of making restitution should the revolution succeed. The robbery consisted in taking over of the mule trains of an American mining train in Western Chihuahua. It is noteworthy, however, that the silver bullion carried by the mules, as far as can be ascertained, was not disturbed.
    Aside from the movement of the Mexicans over American territory to-day's reports from the South contain merely scattered incidents. The situation at Cananea and Naco, south of Arizona, is reported greatly relieved by the arrival of Mexican Federals, and quiet has reigned for a whole day. Confirmation has come of the repulse of the insurgent attack on Ojinaga late yesterday afternoon. The defenders of the town suffered small loss, and after the conflict the jefe politico of the town crossed the border, and informed American officers that he was able to hold the place against assault.
    It turns out to-day that the one casualty reported on the American side of the line was sustained by a Mexican, who was shot through the hip. The garrison in Ojinaga is not as strong as was at first supposed, being only 200 men, but the insurgent strength in the neighborhood, according to the Department of State, had also been over estimated.
    It is not thought here that any attention will be paid to Gov. Hunt's suggestion that the United States, with the consent of the Madero Government, should aid in hunting down the rebels by active campaigns south of the border. That question has been raised many times in the past, and was prominently before the Administration when the Administration's sympathies were even more warmly on the side of President Diaz than they now are on the side of President Madero. But it was felt that any such step would at once solidify the opposition to the Government in a patriotic anti-American crusade. That is just what this Government wants to avoid, and it feels that it is going as far as possible in withholding munitions from the rebels, and permitting the Federals to use American Railroads.
    President Taft authorized to-day shipments of 1,000 rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers, and 183,000 cartridges and shells from New York to Mexico by water. The shipments are destined for undisturbed portions of the republic.