AMERICANS HANGED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 5

AMERICANS HANGED.

1 TROUBLE IN MEXICO. UNITED STATES INTERVENTION POSSIBLE. REBELS DEFIANT. By Teleera.ph—Press Association—Copyright i Washington, August 1. Advices from Mexico state that Americans were hanged near Cananea, Sonora. The Government has ordered an investigation. It is believed the men were executed to precipitate American intervention. The American Consuls have been ordered to investigate. Officials regard the situation as-serious. If it is learnt that the hanging is the result of threats by Generals Orozco and Salazar, the United States may intervene. Dispatches received at El Paso, Texas, say that the hanged men are S. Schubent and S. Hurtling, both Germans. Scores of messages have been sent to Washington, urging the protection of Americans in the insurrection zone. Over 1500 refugees from Mexico aro stranded at El Paso, Texas. General Orozco has informed the American Consul that ho does not recognise the , United States Government. .THE SITUATION IN MEXICO. AMERICAN PRESS VIEWS. "I think the backbone of the revolution is broken," wroto Ambassador Wilson from Mexico City a few days ago (says tho "Literary Ligestf' of June %t). And this is the lavourite newspaper interpretation of the recent Federal successes and apparent weakening of the Orozco campaign in nortuern Mexico. While it remembers how very easy it is "to over-estimate tho value of a" single victory, or tho seriousness of a singio defeat" in such a struggle as this, the Detroit "Free Press" comes to the conclusion "that so far as tho immediato future is concerned, Orozco has failed in his attempt to overthrow Madero." It is " a revolution on tho run," comments the Providence "Journal." The "movement captained by Pascual Orozco," observes the New fork "Sun," "is succumbing to the blows' which General Jiuerta, commanding the Federal Forces in Chihuahua, has struck with a skill that stamps him as no mean strategist." He has driven the insurgents from one position to another until "for the time being, _at any rale, the insurrection in Chihuahua is in eclipse." Yet, to some American observers, the outlook in Mexico is not so rosy-hucd. True, the followers of Orozco aro now demoralised, but, thinks tho New York "Sun":—"With time to repair the ravages of tho campaign and with a fresh supply of ammunition, they will bo found in the field again if Orozco is ready to load them against the Madetisls. The best of them believe that they have- grievances, and insurrection is more to their taste than peace with those grievances unredressed."

"The Sun" goes on to quote approvingly this sentence from an article by Professor L. S. Rowe, in "The Political Science Quarterly":—"With a Jacobinism as fierce and radical as that of tho French Revolution guiding the political thought and action of the revolution leaders, with an electoral of which at least eighty per cent, is illiterate, tho political outlook for the next few years may well arouso the misgivings of every patriotic Mexican." Similar testimony comes from Texas. Says the Houston "Chroniclo":—"Tho singular and lamentable fact which stands out above all others in the Mexican situation is this: That tho poverty of tho common people is so extreme that thousands of them a'ro glad to fight, under anv commander who can give them bread, even when their anus are lifted against tho supreme desire of their own people— the restoration of the land to the people." With these and liko considerations in mind, the New York "Sun" and San Francisco "Chroniclo" continue to doubt President. Madero's ability to copo with tho situation.