The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-10
American Flag Torn Down in
City of Mexico, Trampled,
Spat Upon and Torn to Bits
by Students and Others.
AMERICAN BUSINESS
PLACES NEXT ATTACKED
Windows Smashed and Pro-
prietOrS Subjected to insult
Car Conveying Children of
American School Stoned
PROTEST OF AMBASSADOR

1XICO CITY, Nov. 0.-Through in
M suits 10 the American flag and
assaults made openly upon Amer
lean citizens in the streets, the anti
American demonstration which hogan
last night with the stOning of the Next
can Herald office, developed this after
noon into an affair of international i'm
POrtnHce.
vigorous protest was registered by
the American ambassador with the Mex
lean department. of foreign relations,
and al the same time the facts were
teiegraphed To Washington and instrue-
tiODs asked for.
Tonight the attacks were renewed.
windows in dozen American business
places were smashed. All about town
shutters were hurriedlv drawn and es-
Establishments closed. Forces of police
appeared in the streets and kept the
crowds moving.
An attack was made upon the plant
OF El impartial, and the mailing and
distributing departments on the ground
floor We're completely wrecked. The
mob battered at the heavy doors lead
lng 10 the editorial and composing
rooms above with heavy timbers and
fired the Wreckage.
One of the attackers was run through
and killed. The others fled. An alarm
turned in from the offices Of the paper
brought the fire department TO the
scene before the flames gained head
way.
Old Glory InSuIted.
While the police looked. on and SEEM
ingly made no effort 10 prevent it. an
American flag, flowing IN front OF a
candy store in the business district, was
torn down this afternoon by a crowd
of students ana others, trampled and
spat upon and torn 10 bits Later pho
tographs OF the crowd were taken be-
fore the office of the Diario del Hogan,
a Mexican newspaper, with many indi-
yiduals waving bits of the tattered ban
The deuoopsfr "a tfor, to5or- .,as a oop.
tinuation of the affair of last night,
caused by antipathy aroused among the
people by the burning al the stake OF
Antonio Rodriguez al Rock Springs,
Texas, on the night Of November 8.
Violent Newspaper Attacks.
Publication of violent attacks on
Americans by several Mexican papers
tended further TO increase the medical
students, who were the promoters of
last nights demonstration.
El Diario del Hogan was particularly
violent in expressions Of animOsity to-
ward the people OF the United States
characteriZing them as giants of the
dollar; pigmies OF culture and barba-
rOus whites Of the north" and asking
Where is the boasted Yankee civiliza-
tiOn2"
shortly before noon the crowd assem-
BLEED before the new Juarez monument
IN the Alameda and proceeded TO the
municipal palace, where several who
were arrested last night were being
examined by the authorities COM
pany OF mounted police followed.
From the palace the students marched
through Avenica San Francisco, the
principal business thOrOughfare, stop
ping in front of the candy store where
the flag incident occurred.
An American Who Fought.
The gathering increased and marched
TO the offices of the department of for
eign relations making demonstrations
on the way against American business
places and breaking windows in the
San Francis hotel. Jack Davis. an au-
tomObile repairman. had a hand-tO-
hand encounter with a dozen members
Of the crowd when they attempted to
tear the top from his automobile and
enter his establishment. He knocked
several of them to the pavement and
drove them from his place.
At the head of Juarez avenue, around
the famous statue of the Iron Horse.
speeches were made denouncing all
Americans, and a passing street car
conveying school children TO the Amer
lean school was stoned. One child was
struck and severely injured.
Windows OF the cars were shattered
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