MEXICO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 6 March 1914, Page 6

MEXICO

IS IT TO PASS UNAVENGED?

(P&xss Association. —CopxaiQHi.)

LONDON., March 4 A sister of the late Mr Kenton wrius from Nice: "We are apparently no nearer the identification of my brother s bodv or-an enquiry into the manner of lis "death which must be me prelude t-> the punishment of the cynical ruthan who murdered him. Are the-* negotiations going to b? dragged out um:l public feeliiie has subsided? Is murder to pass thus" unavenged? Can English men and women r.o longer dej>end on their country for protection and redress :

ENDS BLOODLESSLY

(Received March 6. 11.5 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, March 5. The first naval engagement of the Mexican revolt ended bloodlessly. the vessels contenting themselves with long range broadsides.

(General Villa has had a remarkaole career. At the age of 18 years he became an outlaw, and lived by robbery till President Madero. who was assassinated last vear bv the Huertan forces, it is alleged, gave him a commission. The story soes that he was obliged to become a briaand because he killed a •wealthy man who had betrayed his sister and that henceforth he vowed vengeance upon society, especially upon the- rich. It is true. that, in Dick Turpin fashion, he has sometimes distributed goods atolen from the well-to-do people among the ' poor. After he had enrolled in Madero's army he was charged with U, insubordination. (2) burglary. (3) h.gnwav robbery, (4) rape. Upon these General Huerta sentenced him to death, but Madero would not have hire executed. He was saved to become the most relentless and most dangerous foe ci Herta upon the latter assuming the Office of Provisional President ot Mexico. Soon after General Carranza s rebellion broke, out i:i February 19W, Villa raised a force to support the Constitutional Party's leader. He had a stronger idea cf discipline than most Mexicans, and he organised his troops well. He always kept in the rear a hodv of men whom he could trust, it. when ordered to take a position by storm or to advance under fire, the front ranks tried to turn back, they had to face the 6'X rmincd fellows in the rear This plan succeeded admirably. Villa went on from triumph to triumph. "Villa," savs a writer m the ' limes, "is a man of remarkable energy. Brutal in his language, and cften in Ins acts he is temperate in Iks habits, wither drinks nor smokes, never shrinks from fatigue or danger. Ho is of burly-build, and does not look striking:y inUlLgen.. I believe his bold strokes of strategyare mainlv due to the initiative oit three Americans who are on his staff One ct them, who served through the Cuban war, and also in the Philippines, has shown himself full cf resource m military tactics. If they have helped him to "victory, thev have helped him in the direct running'for the Presidency. )