Word: yaqui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve thousand cartridges were fired last week by Mexican soldiers in the Cañon de Mazabampo, between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m., as the perennial guerrilla war (TIME, Oct. 4) to subdue rebellious Yaqui Indian tribes continued. Killed by the 12,000 shots were three Indians; wounded, seven; subdued and captured...
Where is General Obregon? What is he doing? At present that doughty one-armed fighter is the commanding General of the 30,000 troops being placed in the field by President Calles (TIME, Oct. 4) to suppress and exterminate the Yaqui Indians, a group of tribes continuously rebellious against the succeeding governments of Mexico since the Spanish conquest...
During the week General Obregon held a grand council of war at Guadalajara. His intentions, as announced by subordinates: 1) to confiscate all lands held by the Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...
Significance. The armies of General Obregon now in process of mobilization, engaged the Yaqui last week in mere preliminary skirmishes involving no great loss of life. Uncharitable critics of Sr. Obregon and Sr. Calles have intimated that the anti-Yaqui campaign so grandiloquently projected will degenerate into a mere employment of the soldiers of the republic to coerce the citizenry far and wide into voting at municipal, general and presidential elections in a manner agreeable to Sr. Obregon and Sr. Calles. Though this charge is based upon half-truths, it is equally certain that operations against the Yaqui will simply...
...further nefarious use to which the anti-Yaqui campaign will undoubtedly be put lies in the use of the soldiers thus mobilized to enforce the anti-religious policy of the Calles Administration, (TIME, Oct. 4 et ante...