The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-14
TENSION RELIEVED
ON RECEIPT NEWS
Washington Feared Inter
national Complications
Would Result From the
Fighting, Owing to Pres
ences of Many Foreigners
In City-Fletcher Sends
Adyices.
gY ASSOCIATED PREss.

Washington, Dec 13.-The tension
here today over the possible interna-
tional complications during the fight
ing for possession Of Tampico was re-
lieved by the news that practically all
foreigners have been removed from the
OIL seaport Dispatches from Rear Adj
1nfraI Fletcher IN command of the AM
erican hest in Mexican waters, tell Of
the INCREASING vigor of the fighting.
warshtps in the harbor- No mention
is made Of the alleged threat by the
American officers 10 open hre unless
both sides ceased Fighting yesterday.
Rear Admiral Fletcher cabIed from
Ta1npico under date Of ! q. m. today
that st 1 D. M. yesterday he ordered
all Americans out Of the city and that
before midnight he had transferred
about 500 who were aboard the Wheel
ing and Tacoma to the battleships Vir-
alnia, Rhode Island and New Jersey.
which arc at anchor outside the har-
BEcoMlBo. WORSE.
The admiral reported that all for
ign women and chiIdren We're out OF
the city st / O'Clock this morning and
that some men preferred to remain. He
also stated that the situation ! was
Hatting worse aTd that skiraishinR
Continued with fhe Mexican gunboat
ssravo sheliing The constitutionalists
Admiral FIetchers dispatches we're
xithheId from publication until after
7hnN had been submitted to Secretary
ssan and Secretary Daniels who was
ATE @aftiIlN ba1K KneH Balti1nores Tbs
1ya att 4pAiaif ~ Nest Jersey hs seen cFde1
60 1tQAE xpa1l 70 Tss1lpIss9 N 19ip tlaa
Amer eAs fleet III the HghttnB xOi3e "a
The navy "a aFfnlent later issued
this statement:
cabl egralri has been srecalved frona
Rear Admiral F'Ietcher, sent from
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conveys the fnfornlati ion that there has
been no cessation Of fighting but that
the fighting ~ not serious Aguilar
WAS reported 10 have just arrived with
right bank OF Sl1e river. There were
en- route to Tampico the Mexican gum
boats Vera Vruz and Progressos Ad
fniraI Fletcher has received inforna-
tionalists have shot or hanged all of
the prisoners taken, numbering about /
SIS. Three of these men were hanged |
In the forenoon from within the fed-l
eraI lines in fSGll view Of the shipping
admiral Fletcher made formal pro-
test In the name OF humanity against /
the practice lie reports that no for |
and that the New Jersey is en- route to |
The army transport Sumner leaves
Galveston today for Tampjco. Ar. |
TA4&9lHEnkk EAye DES1ls mau0 10 care 1
for all Axnerlcans at Tampico. They |
number about 5e0.'
admiral Fletcher asked the navy de-
partment fq make public ANNOUNCE /
ment that al forei ~ >rs were safe and /
that It WAS impossible to send per- /
snnAl messages TO all who have rela- I
tiyes on the ships. The navy depart /
znent has enEnged the Ward liner Nor /
70 Costle. which wln arrive at Tam
pic0 early tomorrow. to receive such /
refugees aS may wish 10 leave
OfHcials .did not attach any sfgnid-
canoe ia the fact that Admiral E1etch-
e. made No mention in his dispatches
OF his repeated action in ordering the
combatants 10 cease firing at one time
yesterday N was pOintGd out how
ever. that tine sdiniraf had the widest
powers 10 act In his discretion Al /.
though theS adnairaI's reports came to
Wa@hingtox8 by cable, he in using the
wireless toE transmit them to Consul /.
Eanmdm at Vera Cruz. who Is sending
them By cable from that point.
TtlLb TO PROTEST. j!
secretarv Bryan today. instructed
Consul Latssher at chihuahua to pro-
test to Geaeral Francisco Nillas the
commander, against t
the expulsion Of Spanish subjects from
that city. secretary Bryan's action
was taken egr representation made by
the Spanish ambassador. No official
word has reached the department con-
cernlnx the threatened confiscation Of
the property OF the Spanlards
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