Expect Recognition Of Huerta's Foes.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1913:
Americans in Mexican Capital Think Rebels Will Gain Belligerent Rights.
FEAR DISORDER AS RESULT
Belief Based on Ambassador's Remarks — Rumor Is Denied by Washington Officials.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VERA CRUZ, July 20 — Recognition of the belligerent rights of the Mexican revolutionists by the United States Government in fifteen days is expected by the American colony in the City of Mexico, according to American families who began arriving in this city to-day. The new arrivals fear that if such a step is taken by the Administration in Washington disorders in Mexico City will follow. It is to avoid the dangers of such possible disorders that the families are coming to this seaport in search of a place of refuge.
    The belief of the American colonists in Provisional President Huerta's capital as to the early recognition of the Mexican insurgents as belligerents on the part of the American Government is based on remarks said to have been made by Henry Lane Wilson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, shortly before his departure from Mexico City in response to a summons from Secretary of State Bryan directing him to go to Washington for a conference with President Wilson in regard to the status of affairs in this country.

Consul Asks for Gunboat.
    MEXICO CITY, July 20.— Alarmed by threats of the rebels to attack the port of Frontera, on the east coast, the American Consul has asked Washington to send a gunboat there. The rebels have occupied two American-owned plantations near the city and have done much damage.
    Although the rebel movement in the States of Tabasco and Campeche has gained no such headway as in the north, it has progressed steadily, and the demand for troops in other parts of the country is so great that the Government has been able to use only a small part of the army in the south.

Ovation to Japanese Envoy.
    WASHINGTON, July 20.— Official advices were received by the State Department to-day from the American Embassy in Mexico City that the projected pro-Japanese demonstrations in that capital would not take place. This news is regarded here as of great importance, as it indicates a realization on the part of the Huerta Government that those demonstrations might have an effect, as far as the United States was concerned, different from that intended.
    President Wilson, Secretary Bryan, and other high officers of the Administration are convinced that much of the anti-American sentiment in Mexico City is artificial. A Government official occupying one of the foremost positions told The Times's correspondent that the President, after careful inquiry, had learned enough to convince him that a group of persons in the Mexican capital was responsible for demonstrations that had taken place and that those affairs were not due to any popular feeling.
    In the opinion of leading officials in Washington, the efforts to create the impression that Mexico and Japan are on the point of concluding an alliance or some agreement for close mutual relationship are of the same artificial character and are intended to frighten President Wilson into recognizing the. Huerta Administration as the Government de jure or keeping this Government from adopting any radical course toward Mexico. No assertion is made that President Huerta or his Cabinet is behind this programme. But it is evident that persons close to the Provisional President are suspected of fomenting the recent demonstrations.
    A news dispatch from Mexico that a delegation of Japanese had applied to the Mexican Government for permission to colonize the State of Morelos does not create any apprehension in official circles here. It is regarded as without significance. The idea that the Japanese Government is behind the application apparently is not entertained among members of the Wilson Administration. Although nobody in authority knows enough of the reputed action of the Japanese delegation to form any opinion as to the real meaning of the proposal, there is reason to believe that it is viewed as coming in the scope of the suspicion that applies to other news from Mexico in which there is mention of Japan or Japanese.

Recognition Rumor Unconfirmed.
    The belief in Mexico City's American colony, said to have been occasioned by remarks made by Henry Lane Wilson, the American Ambassador, who is on his way to the United States, that this Government will recognize the belligerent rights of the revolutionists in fifteen days finds no confirmation in Washington. H. Perez Romera, agent here of the Constitutionalist, or Revolutionary, Party, recently appealed to Secretary Bryan to grant equal rights to the Constitutionalists or revoke the privilege of the Huerta Government to import munitions of war from the United States.
    Inquiries by The Times correspondent brought from one or the highest officials of the Administration the response that the question of granting belligerent rights to the revolutionists had not even been considered by President Wilson. If Ambassador Wilson made remarks that gave rise to that belief, it is said, he must have been misunderstood or was speaking without knowledge of the views of the President. The subject of granting belligerent rights to the anti-Huerta party will not be taken up for consideration, it is asserted, until the Ambassador reaches Washington.
    The Constitutionalist agency in Washington received the following telegram to-day from San Antonio, Texas:
    Have reliable information that Gen. Trevino making a tour, trying to win confidence of rebel chiefs to proclaim himself President, ousting Carranza. Huerta Cientificos backing this plan. Efforts being made to obtain support Secretary Bryan and foreign powers. It is convenient that appropriate action should be taken, making it known that Trevino is not acceptable to the revolution. There is a suspicion that Felix Diaz may stop at Los Angeles to co-operate with Trevino.

Carranza Bottles Up Federals.
    News reached Washington to-day that Gov. Carranza by strategy had bottled up a Federal force of 2,000 men under Gen. Maas in Monclova, a town in the State of Coahuila. A force of artillery under Gen. Rubia Navarrete, said to be the ablest artillery officer in the Federal army, had been sent to attack Carranza near Monclova. Carranza made a flank movement, defeated Navarrete, capturing guns and a large number of prisoners, and then closed up the only two means of egress from Monclova, into which Maas had gone with his 2,000 men. Monclova is surrounded by mountains'.
    The State Department received advices to-day that thirteen American citizens and 200 head of cattle, owned by,
    Americans, had been captured by bandits near Villadalma, where they were being held for ransom. Dispatches were sent by the department to the American Embassy and Consular officers to demand the release of the Americans.