THE MEXICAN CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5

THE MEXICAN CRISIS.

4 AMERICANS JOIN THE REBELS. RAILWAY BRIDGES WRECKED. MISSING NEWSPAPER MEN. ' (By Telesrrapli-Prcss Association CopyriehU New York, March 11. Scores of Americans are joining the Mexican revolutionists at 101 Paso.

Captain Crcighton, an American, with a band of insurrectionists, wrecked railway bridges and tlie National railroad for a distance of 100 miles. The Federal troops remain inactive. It is sliitcd that fifteen Americans have been captured, and, it is believed, shot. San Diego (Texas) reports that a party of newspaper men left there on , Sunday lost for Ensenada, a Mexican town in Lower California, and have not yet been hoard from. This causes uneasiness, as bandits roam the country. MORE AMERICAN TROOPS. APPEAL BY MEXICAN AMBASSADOR (Eec. March IC, 0.55 a.m.) Washington, March 15. Tho United States is sending an additional cavalry patrol to tho Mexican frontier as smuggling continues. President Diaz is understood to be planning a decisive campaign to eradicate the insurrection. The Mexican Ambassador has issued an appeal to his fellow-countrymen to aid' the peaceful evolution of Mexico in governing along lines of true democracy. SOME MYSTERIOUS MOVES. Whatever excuee may be given for the sudden massing of United States troops on the Mexican border, tho fact remains that all these troops are armed with rifie3 and ball cartridges. What, asks a writer in tho Sydney "Herald," is the object of it? From one quarter comes the statement that tho British Foreign Office pointed out to the authorities a.t Washington that if no measures were taken by the United States it would become necessary for Great Britain to land bluejackets on Mexican, soil to protect British interests. Another statement is that the mobilisation was ordered as a check to possible aggressive action by Germany, to which country certain Mexican interests applied for protection. Then, again," it may bo intended as a warning to Mexico against any measures which would make for the defeat of the Monroe doctrine. Japan, it is stated, has for some time past been- attempting to get a naval station on the west coast of Mexico. Herein lies a .serious danger to tho United States—the possibility of an attack from the south. There are thousands of Japanese in Mexico. Tho largest percentage of immigrants into Mexico of recent years has been made up of Japanese and Chinese, who are kept out of the United States by the Exclusion Act. These so-called "undesirables" settle in Mexico and prosper. About four years ago tho Japanese immigration agent completed arrangements with tho Government of the Mexican State of Colima, on the west coast, /or tho introduction of 500 families of Japanese agriculturists, who shortly afterwards settled iu that State. Many had gone there before that, many more have gone since; and among them are seasoned war veterans who went through the Ru'ssc-.Tapaneaa war. It is quite conceivable that the planting of a formidable colony of Japanese in Mexico, added to by hundreds of others every year is not viewed with favour by the United States Government.