VILLA’S SCHEMES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16455, 6 June 1919, Page 3

VILLA’S SCHEMES.

A REVOLUTION SCOTCHED. AGENTS ARRESTED ON THE FRONTIERS. Villa, in spite of his many “death*, 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 17 members of his staff, all Mexicans, and thus apparently frustrated plans formulated by Villietas for launch-* mg 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 intq Mexico. When arrested the 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 or 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 March 1 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 ho terms “liberty, bread 1 , and justice.” He promised to restore the constitution of 1857, to reform the judiciary, establish woman suffrage, and to trept the enemy with consideration once they are conquered.