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...revolution started in the State of Vera Cruz, where General Guadalupe Sanchez, a former friend of President Obregon, commanding 12,000 troops, started an armed movement in support of General de la Huerta. The slogan of the rebels was "Down with imposition," meaning that President Obregon had tried to "impose" General Calles, so-called Radical candidate for the Presidency (TIME, Nov. 19), as next President of Mexico...
Meanwhile the Obregon Government prepared a campaign to crush the re- volt. Martial law was declared. General Calles renounced his candidacy for the Presidency and offered his services to President Obregon. The President put him at the head of 28,000 troops, already on their way to Vera Cruz. President Obregon issued a manifesto to the people calling upon them for support against the Huertista military coup. A strict censorship was imposed on telegraph, telephone, mails...
When the news of General Calles' renunciation was received in Vera Cruz, the rebels celebrated the event by ringing the church bells. The warships in the harbor blew their whistles. The rebel leaders declared, however, that, having repudiated the Obregon Government, they would fight it until it was ousted...
...Harvard Classical Club will hold its third reading in Lucian this evening at eight o'clock in the club room of the Union The entire second book of "Vera Historia" will be read, texts being obtainable at the meeting...
...period 1910-20?a period torn by civil wars and insurrections which at one time produced conditions almost amounting to a state of war with the U. S.; 2) settlement of Mexican claims against the U. S. Government resulting from the Pershing expedition (1916) and the occupation of Vera Cruz...