THE MEXICAN REVOLT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 5

THE MEXICAN REVOLT.

FORGES CONCENTRATING^ CeßWen Imminent. Press Association.—Tels*ran<i.-*CapvriiFhL MEXICO CITY, April 15. Hie rebels are concentrating on Aguaprieta, which they captured on Tuesday night, after a hard fight. Their intention is apparently to hold it against the Federal forces; also to form headqnarteis for future operations. The Federal forces are combining to the southward, and evidently propose to advance on Agoaprieta.

AMERICAN ADVICE.

WASHINGTON, April 15. A report from Douglas, Arizona, states that in consequence of cpmplaints of the killing and wounding of American citizens by flying bullets at Thursday’s battle at Aguaprieta, President Taft is making representations to Federal and insurrectionary leaders that they fight future battles at a greater distance from the frontier. BRITISH NAVAL STEFS. WASHINGTON, April 15. A report has been received by the State Department that the British sloop Shearwater landed thirty bluejackets and a Maxim gun at San Quentin, Mexico, to protect the town against threatened attack by the rebels, which however, did not materialise. The bluejackets were therefore withdrawn.