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...twin revolutions occurred respectively A) In the great gulf port of Vera Cruz State of Vera Cruz, 200 miles east of Mexico City and B) In Nogales, State of Sonora, famed drink & divorce boomtown on the U. S. Border, 1,000 miles northwest of Mexico City...
Both revolutions were at first entirely bloodless. The soldiers of the garrisons at Vera Cruz and Nogales simply obeyed their Generals-previously trusted servants of the state-when ordered to declare against the government of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil, ruthless suppressor of Catholics...
...President moved against the revolutionaries by asking onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28) to emerge from his civilian retirement and defend the state as Minister of War. Responding instantly, General Calles ordered swift mobilization, scoffed at reports that six states had joined Sonora and Vera Cruz in revolt clapped on an iron censorship...
...hesitant attitude of the armed forces of the Republic-on which everything depended-was quaintly shown when ships of the Mexican fleet off Vera Cruz fired at the revolutionaries in the city a few shots which must have been blanks, since they did no damage. Thus should the government win, the fleet would have "fired" in its defense, and, should the revolution triumph, Mexico's swarthy sea-dogs would have deserved well...
...school. Each came to eminence through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment...