ATTACK ON TAMPICO.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4830, 7 May 1914, Page 5

ATTACK ON TAMPICO.

INTENTIONS OF VILLA. THE UNITED STATES PLAN. EXTENDING OPERATIONS. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Received this day at 11.5 a.m.) Washington, This Day. Persistent rumours are current to the effect that Villa is en route to attack Tampico, where fighting continues resultlessly. General Funston has been ordered to extend operations around Vera Cruz in any manifer his discretion dictates. If hostilities are resumed the United States proposes to appoint MajorGeneral Leonard Wood in supreme command. He will advance along the railway to Mexico City., but such a plan is held in abeyance until the result of the peace negotiations are known. The mediators announce that the report that they are again approaching Carranza and seeking his eooperaion, is incorrect. A SATANIC SUGGESTION. .Mexico City, Last Night. General Villa describes Huerta’s insinuation that the Consitutionalists are joining the Americans as a Satanic suggestion. He states that, if necessary, the Constitutionalists are willing to face two enemies, external and internal. MEDIATORS TO MEET. Washington, Last * Night. The South American mediators will meet at Niagara Falls. HUERTA ON HIS LAST LEGS. DEPICTED AS A AVRECK. BRANDY BOTTLE AS COMPANION Mexico City, Last Night. It is rumoured that President Huerta is on his last legs, politically and physically, and is contemplating a “holt.” He is depicted, too, asfrightened. He will sleep anywhere except in a motor-car, and he wanders about at nights with a brandy-bottle in his hand.