[REBELS WORK
ON NEW PLAN
TO GET ARMS
De la Huerta’s Representa
tive At New Orleans Buys
Heavy Shipment Hearing No
Embargo Exists To Mexico
ENEMIES “OF- OBREGON
PLANNING BIG ATTACK
Would Stake Their All Upon
Gamble In United Drive On
Federal Forces—Wounding
Of American Being Probed
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 8—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—Associated Press dis
patches today from Washington,
quoting officials as saying there were
no provisions of law against arms
purchases unless there was evidence
of a conspiracy to use American soil
as a base for operations against
friendly foreign powers resulted in
Instructions from Adolfo De La Huer
ta, Mexican revolutionary loader, to
his agents hern to purchase and as
semble Immediately a large quffhtlty
of war munitions In New Orleans,
says the New Orleans Dally States.
The substance of the dlspqjg!h was
cabled to Vera Cru* by Teodoro Fre
zleres, revolutionary government
agent here, and Ds La Huerta replied
Immediately with Instructions to
purchase 8,000,000 rounds of nfle am
munition, 8.000 rifles, 10 machine
guns and 1,000,000 rounds of machine
gun ammunition. At the same time,
declares the newspaper, funds to
cover the purchase were cabled to a
New Orleanss bank.
Prealeres Immediately called upon
department of Justice officials here
and told them of his Intention to pur
chase the munitions, the newspaper
added, and followed It with a visit
to police headquarters for the same
purpose, declaring he was acting
strlotly aboveboard, and had no desire
to confliot with the law. Col. Oeorge
Shanton, chief of the southern dis
trict of the department of Justice,
was quoted as having told Frexiere3
he could not accept this press associa
tion dispatch as authentic, and It Is
understood he later telegraphed
Washington for instruotlons.
