MADERO GOVERNMENT IN DANGER.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14306, 18 March 1912, Page 7

MADERO GOVERNMENT IN DANGER.

(rctoji otrn ovvx conTtEsroN'DE.vr). SAN FRANCISCO, February 19.

The fighting of rebels seems to bo a chronic condition in Mexico. Diaz and his methods have frOne, but his successor, Francisco Madero, who himself gained tho presidency as the leader of a micccssful rebellion, has his hands noro than full in endeavouring to suppress uprisings in various parts of the country. Juaircz, just across the Rio Grande* River from the American city of El Paso, was tho scon** of a serious outbreak ou the part of soldiers who had hcon supposed to bo loyal to Madero. The mutineers rushed upon their commander and the chipf of police locked botb of them in prison and released all prisoners from the citj- gaol. Pro-nis-cuous firing occurred in the streets, nnd foreigners fled across tho border. Tho passenger train south to [Mexico City was seized and detained, and Americans who were aboard were ■ conducted back to El Paso. In connection with the uprising, Emilio Vasquez Gomez, a prominent ficurn in Mexican public life, was proclaimed president. Genctral Pascuai Croczo, an idolised commander of Iho Mexican troops, succeeded . in pacifying the soldiers. President. Madero sent oroc7x> to Juarez for that purpose, although secretly fearful tlist Oroczo might throw in his lot with iho rebels and become a lender against tho Government. Some fifteen cr twenty wore killed in the nffair.

The uprising at Juarez is not by any means tho only difficulty with which tho Mndero administration is struggling, although by reason of• tho contiguity of JiiGrea to the United States border it wag described in ir"re detail than other rebel activities. Tho followers of Zapata. who have'been fighting tho Madero troops far nearly a year, are a thorn in the side of the. Government. In the iState of Chihuahua there is xilmcst dai'y fighting, and many have teen slain on both sides. Tho despatches state that in tho State of Morales General Lopez is -putting down tho uprising with a heavy hand. "There v.-ert> wholesale executions last week," it .is reported, "and in this way it is estimated that nearly 1200 Zapatistas and, suspects were put to death." Rebels are active also in the States of Durnnso. Zacatecas and Guanajuato, and the Laguna district in Coahuilla is overrun with them. In the majority of instances the rebel movement is characterised by raiding and looting. In tho State of Dnrango the rebel ranks bavo been filled for tho most part by field hands, who have joined in looting the haciendas on which they have been employed.

In tho Uuited States the revolt is considered as indicative of a general revival of tho feeling of unrest that existed before the fall of tho Diaz administration.Tho element that seems to be giving Madero tho most trouble consists of that which followed him through tho revolution. The party charges him with not putting into immediate effect reforms which lie promised. The soldiers at Juarez revdlted chiefly because cf their opposition to being retired from the ranks and returned to tho paths of peace. A newspaper despatch from Mexico City states +hat scores of the president's most ardent supporters of six months ago are speculating on his übility to carry tho country through tho present crisis.