VILLA'S SCHEMES

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1919, Page 3

VILLA'S SCHEMES

A REVOLUTION SCOTCHED

AGENTS ARRESTED ON THE

FRONTIERS.

Villa, in spite of his many "deaths," seems still to be not dead. At all events his spirit still moves restlessly, and inspires adventurers with ideas of revolution. Only a few weeks ago, the United States Federal authorities arrested, in Texas, General Felipe Angeles and seventeen members of his stall', all Mexicans,, and thus apparently frustrated plans formulated by Villistas for launching a revolution, the object of which .was the conquest of Northern Mexico. The Mexicans were arrested as they were about to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico. When arrested the1 Mexicans had three army truckloads of military supplies, all of which had been purchased in the United States.

In, addition to General Angeles, Colonel ■ Frederico Cervantes, Chief of Staff to General Angeles in .1914, and Colonel Rafael Iturbide, member of a prominent Mexican family, were taken in an automobile, while the other members of the party were arrested by the cavalry near Socorro. The Mexicans were brought to El Paso, where charges of " setting on foot a military expedition against .a friendly country" were lodged against them. Details of the contemplated revolution was disclosed in a manifesto issued by Francisco Villa on, Ist March at San. Lorenzo, Chihuahua, which has been received, at El Paso. In the manifesto Villa calls on all his old generals in the famous division of the north to join him again, offering to forgive any enmity they may have against him if they will return to Mexico and fight for what he terms "liberty, bread, and justice." He promised to restore the constitution of 1357, to reform the judiciary, establish woman suffrage, and to treat the enemy, with consideration once they are conquered.