MEXICAN CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1546, 16 September 1912, Page 5

MEXICAN CRISIS.

PLOT TO SACK CITY.

ARAIY REPORTED TO BE FOR

REBELS

MADERO HISSED.

By TclczraDn-Pross Association-CoDjriEttl

(Received September 18, 035 a.m.)

Mexico City, September 11. A plot has been'unveiled to tack tho citv ou the fifteenth. anniversary of Mexican Independence, and numerous arrests have been made. The alleged plot has been organised by rebel sympathisers. . Great' disturbances have occurred throughout the city, the mobs shouting "Vivas Diaz" and hissing Madero. Riotous scenes have also taken place in the> Chamber. A deputy drew a pistol, fancying he had been insulted by tho other deputies' remarks, and was only with difficulty disarmed. _ . The army is reported to be seriously disaffected. . The situation is similar to that preceding tho fall of President Diaz.

AMERICAN PRESTIGE.

TIME NOW RIPE FOR ACTION.

(Rec. September 15, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, September 15. Senator W. Aldeu Smith, Chairman of" tlie" Senate Committee which is inquiring at El Paso, Texas, into the alleged activity of Americans in fomenting tho Mexican revolution, reports that so little has'been done by the United States to maintain American prestige among the people of latin America that the American protests have been ignored. The torture and robbery of American subjects in Mexico is rapidly approaching a crisis and tho time is ripe for America to attempt to secure an equitable settlement of the revolution. "

INTERVENTION IN DOMINGO. Washington, September 13. The United Slates is about to intervene in San Domingo, where a revolution has broken out, and Americans are threatened.