Britain To Accept Huerta.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 12, 1913:
Minister de la Barra Announces Recognition Will Be Given.
    MEXICO CITY, March 11.— Great Britain will recognize the Huerta Government, according to official advices received to-day by Francisco de la Barra, Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations, from the Mexican legation in London. Minister de la Barra announced this afternoon that Bartolome Carbajal y Rosas, recently transferred from St. Petersburg to take the post of Minister at London, was persona grata to the British Government.
    At the end of a long Cabinet session to-night the announcement was made that 10,000 Federal troops would be rushed to the State of Sonora in an effort to crush the secessionists before the movement should spread further. The Government has received unofficial advices that the Constitutionalist Party in Sonora has united with that of Sinaloa and Lower California in the secession movement.
    A plot to procure intervention in Mexico is said to have been frustrated by the suppression by Government troops on March 8 of the disorders caused by striking workmen in Santa Rosa, near Orizaba, in the State of Vera Cruz, when Camerino Mendoza, a former chief of rural guards, was killed. Documents have been recovered which include one addressed to President Taft asking for intervention by the United States and the restoration of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., as President of Mexico, failing which it was proposed to make attacks on foreign residents in this country. The plotters are said to have been persons who had been connected with the Madero Government.
    The death roll of the battle fought in front of the National Palace on Feb. 9, when Gen. Felix Diaz attacked the Government troops with his rebel army, and Gen. Bernardo Reyes was killed, totaled 506, according to a report by the military authorities, who just have completed their investigation. The victims included 170 women, 6 children, 208 non-combatant men, 10 military students and 40 Federal soldiers, the remainder being rebels.

    MONTEREY. Mex., March 11.— The Federal troops are reported to have driven a large body of adherents of Gov. Venustiano Carranza of the State of Coahuila back toward Muzquiz after a fight on Sunday last at San Salvador Bonavides in that State. Followers of Carranza are said to be spreading rebel propaganda among the Kickapoo Indians, many of whom are flocking to Carranza's standard.
    Gen. Trucy Aubert, with a column of Federal troops, has advanced to Barotoran, sixty miles to the north of Monclova, and it is thought he will attack Carranza's men at Muzquiz shortly.
    The City Council of Torreon has been removed from office, owing to the support given by its members to Madero. It has been replaced by a Government commission presided over by Juan Castillon. The commission has been empowered to use all available means for the pacification of the city and the surrounding country.
    Gen. Manuel Blazquez has been named Military Governor of the State of Coahuila.

    MAGDALENA, Sonora, Mexico, March 11.— Three hundred Federals and a machine gun are stationed in hastily dug trenches a half mile below Nogales. The Federals have destroyed the Sonora Railway below the border to prevent the movement against Nogales.
    Gen. Obregon's State troops have returned from this place to Hermosillo, it being reported indirectly that a strong force of Huerta soldiers was moving against the State capital from near Guaymas, the California Gulf port.