Truth And Falsehood From Mexico.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 3, 1913:
    The latest news from Mexico is authentic. An uprising engineered by the Zapatistas in the suburbs of the capital, has been crushed and a large number of its participants summarily put to death, in the old-fashioned Mexican way. It does not make very cheerful reading for the outside world, to be sure, but it will hearten and encourage some thousands of our hitherto perturbed fellow-countrymen in the Federal District and the neighboring States, which have been terrorized by bandits for two years. The Zapatista movement must be ended if Mexico is to have peace, and "terms" can never be made with its leader. He has murdered in cold blood hundreds of inoffensive persons.
    This story of defeated rebellion is the chief news of consequence from Mexico this morning, but comment on some attractive new versions of recent incidents is worth while. For instance, Madero and Suarez were killed and nearly hacked to pieces in the National Palace and then placed upright in a motor car and driven to the back of the Penitentiary, where some shots were fired while the bodies were thrown in the street. Gen. Reyes, it seems, was not shot while leading a charge against the National Palace. He was enticed into a building and murdered. Madero and Suarez never resigned, but their signatures were forged on the document purporting to be their resignation. Emilio and Raoul Madero were murdered, after all, although everybody in a position to know has contradicted the reports to that effect, the statement that they are now organizing a counter-revolution need not surprise anybody. Rudolfo Reyes committed suicide, and a fortnight later accepted a portfolio in the Cabinet of the Provisional President. Mexican "news" is confusing, but is very interesting.
    This new batch of obvious falsehoods will not harm the administration of Gen. Huerta or delay the measures he has in view for the pacification of his country. Such untruths are not heeded in Mexico. They form part of the dally entertainment and enlightenment of their neighbors. But it is to be hoped that we may get some pleasanter information about the daily routine in our sister republic by and by.