Sonora Rushes War Plans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 7, 1913:
Orozco Announces Neutrality — Americans Ask Protection.
    EL PASO, March 6.— With the ex-rebels of Chihuahua announcing neutrality toward the Sonora revolt, the situation in the western State to-day awaited the entrance of Federal troops. Rallying under the Constitutionalist banner and proclaiming State rights, the new rebels late to-day not only destroyed the railroad north and south of Hermosillo, but also cut all telegraph wires. That enforced the most effective news censorship from the State capital.
    Following the decision of the State authorities to denounce Huerta's Government, groups of State rebels to-night threatened the posts of Agua Prieta and Nogales, on the Arizona border.
    "The matter does not directly interest me." said Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., to-day, when news reached his camp below Juarez of the Sonòra uprising against Huerta. The former rebel commander-in-chief has received no request from the
    Provisional President to take the field against the Sonora troops as was reported yesterday. If was said such a request would meet refusal by almost 1,500 troops under Orozco's control.
    Gen. Orozco again made clear his stand toward the Provisional Government in Mexico City, explaining he only accepted Huerta on the understanding that the land grant promises of the Madero revolution would be kept. Orozco reiterated his promise that he would keep his forces under an indefinite armistice. It was denied by the rebel commander that any demand had been made on the Huerta party for large amounts with which to recompense the northern rebels for their struggle against Madero. If Col. Jose Cordova, Orozco's emissary to Mexico City, made such a demand, it was unauthorized, Orozco asserted.
    Gen. Orozco afterward submitted his terms specifically. Ricardo Garcia Granados, the Provisional President's envoy, announced his belief they would be accepted.
    Repeating his demands that the land grant promises of the first revolution be carried out at once, Orozco asked further that the Northern rebels be employed as rural police; that 5,000 pesos be given as back pay to his troops; that widows and orphans be pensioned, and that the Government pay loans obtained by the rebels for food and clothes supplied in the anti-Madero revolution.
    Those demands were brought here by a courier from Orozco's camp in Ahumada. A message was received from the rebel Generals. Inez Salazar and Antonio Rojas, in which they also demanded that the land grant clause be fulfilled.
    Orozco has agreed to go to Mexico City to confer with Gen. Huerta and his Cabinet. He will leave Ahumada to-morrow with his father, Col. Orozco, who is here.