MARTIAL LAW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1075, 14 March 1911, Page 5

MARTIAL LAW.

THE REVOLT IN HSXXO. By Tclezrapb--ri-oss .w-,v.i...i—- r o „ r ,i~ l ,. Washington, March 12. There arc conflicting imports regarding the Mexican situation. Apparently President Diaz has been stuns to action sinco American troops have appeared on tho border, for a war of extermination has been planned against the insurgents. A species of martial law was proclaimed on Saturday. It provides for the execution of persons caught tampering with the railways, wrecking trains, raiding villages and farms, and cutting the telegraph wires. The Minister for War announces that the full severity of the law will not be applied at first. The Mexican Finance Minister, interviewed in New fork, ridiculed the suggestion that Americans sought to depose General Diaz. General Madero, the Revolutionist leader, has addressed a Note to the foreign Powers guaranteeing the lives and property of foreigners residing in Mexico. WONTHAGGI SCEPTICAL. Melbourne, March 13. Wonthaggi residents ridicule the cabled statement that five hundred men have been offored for revolutionary service in Mexico by. a Wonthaggi resident., They state that such a force would exhaust half tho employees in the Government mine. FEAR OF JAPANESE INVASION. MENACE TO"THE CANAL. (Rec. March 14, 0.10 a.m.) Berlin, March 13. . The "Cologne Gazette" declares that the mobilisation of the United States Army is a rehearsal for the benefit of Japan, and is due to fears of a Japanese' invasion, of Central and South America, and Japanese menace to' the Panama Canal. BITTER ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING. A VISITOR'S ACCOUNT. (Rec. March 13, 11.30 p.m.) London, March 13. Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich, tho wellknown military writer, who left Mexico on February 14, writes to "The Times" stating that the genesis of the trouble In Mexico was a popular riot in Mexico City owing to a report that a Mexican ■ had been lynched in Texas. This arous- , ed a strong wave of anti-American feel- • ing, and led to a demonstration, which i was suppressed without difficulty.. The city- has been perfectly quiet since Octo- i ber. . . . The insurrection in Chihuahua began , in a revolt against the local Governor ) rather than the Federal Government. Up , to a mouth ago it was purely local, and ( he was unaware of any serious uprising , elsewhere, but there could be no doubt , whatever about the bitterness of tho anti- ] American feeling in Mexico generally. It ] is. that rather than hostility to President , Diaz's administration which threatens £ disaster in the future.