MEXICAN REBELLION.

Mataura Ensign, 26 December 1913, Page 7

MEXICAN REBELLION.

CONSTITUTIONALISTS' THREAT. 81 Et.J dl PIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT PES UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON , Dec. 24. The Mexican Constitutionalists' Agency in London has warned Lloyds that they consider the destruction justifiable of any steamer conveying munitions for General Huerta. PREVALENCE OF LAWLESSNESS. *1 ELECTRIC TEiEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. TIMES-—SIDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. MEXICO City, Dec. 24. , For sheer, devilish,' oold-blooded cruelty the Mexicans are capable of outdoing the (Jhinese. Already the opportunities for employment have been so reduced that many persons have to choose between joining the rebels and starving. A man who has upset his mental digestion by .a diet of crude Socialism gathers a. few followers, steals rifles and horses, rides to a small village, and terrorises the inhabitants. The crowd billet themselves 5 and visit everybody in the neighborhood, and take whatever they find. If they are thwarted they kill. How many Mexicans' have been murdered and how many women have been outraged by these ruffians there is no means of telling. Savage assaults and barefaced: robberies go on unpunished. An American who was managing a mine was attacked by a company of miners and was captured. The gold teeth were torn from his mouth. If disappointed at the farm-houses the brigands wreck the farms of the peons and seize their women. Peace will only be possible" if Europe co-operates with America and supervises the finances, stops the corruption, and reforms the army so as to make it capable of keeping order.