The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-07
DARING ARMY spy
|NSPECTS MEXICO
Capt. Cloman, u. S. Army
Again Wins Recognition
for His Feats.

Washington, April Capt. sydney
A. Cloman, L. 5. A, who. disguised
as Mr. Otis. IA lumberman," obtained
valuable Information for the war de
partment In Colombia at the time
President Roosevelt took" the Pan.
anna Canal Zone. has just arrived at
San Antonio, coming from Laredo.
through which he passed on his way
back from Mexico, where he has been
studying problems which would con
front the army in case it advanced
across the border.
At the war department today II was
officially said lit Is utterly untrue that
Capt. Cloman has been ordered TO do
any such work or that he has made
any reports" but 1t was not denied
that he had been i'm Mexico.
Capt. Cloman was formerly mill
tary attache at the Court of st. James,
n coveted post given TO him by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for the work he did in
connection with the Panama trouble
in 1903. lie specially distinguished
himself by making a most daring trip
into the city of Cartagena and report
ing its exact armament and how 1t
could best be taken. He also went
into the Atrato country and reported
on the strength and disposition of the
forces Colombia had massed to sub.
due Panama. and which 1t was then
believed that the American marines
would have to oppose.
, Secret Service Reports.
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Torario Diaz. Mexico. arrived in
Washington bringing with him "A mass
of consular and secret service reports
lie refused to make any statement
abnIt conditions I'm Mexico.
Conditions all over Mexico are now
exceedingly serious and it is becoming
more and more apparent that nothing
short of the abdication OF President
Diaz can end the trouble. How this
Is to be brought about is knotty
problem.
Consular reports received from all
Mexico by the state department show
that the situation is unchanged since
the DiaZ message which it had been
,hoped would have had quoting eff
.fect.
In view of the oft-repeated assertion
that the United States will intervene
IN Mexico IL order Is not restored by
May 1. 1t is significant that the revolu-
tionists have fixed April "a as the date
on which the Mexican government
must make known it's intentions in
the matter.
DIR. Gomez. confidential agent of Ma
dero, said that machine gun with
800 men had been sent by Madero to
reinforce the revolutionary army be-
sieging the town of Oiinaga, opposite
Preside. Tex
IT Ojinaga falls ii will bring terri
tory over which the revolutionists ex-
ercise absolute authority into juXtapo-
sition with the territory of the United
States and will create condition
where the American government will
be compelled to deal directly with
the power in control i'm supervising
the interests and intercourse of Am
erican citizens in that section of Mex
party "a direct outlet for communicate
ing with the world without going
through the lines of the federal force.
No further information has been re-
ceived at the state department con-
corning the shooting of George Creich-
field of Jersey City. AS no news of
his death has been received from the
consul at Tampico it was believed that
be Is still alive and may recover.