The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-12-18
ENDS TAMP|CO FIGHT
REAR ADMIRAL FLETCHER OR.
DERs REBELS AND FEDERALs
TO CEASE FIRING.
BRITISH CONSULATE INVADED
Villas Men Seize Son Of Wealthy
Luis Terrazas While He Is Under
King Georges FIag-Forelaners
Flee for Safety.

Mexico City, Dec. 15.-Rear Admir-
al Fletcher, commander of the Ameri-
can naval forces in Mexican waters,
ordered the rebels and federals fight
ing at Tampico to cease firing Friday,
threatening to open upon them with
the guns of the gunboat Wheeling if
his order was not obeyed.
Both sides complied with the order
This information was contained in a
dispatch received by Sir Lionel Car
den, British ambassador, from Rear
Admiral Sir Christopher Graddock Of
the British cruiser Berwick, which is
lying off Tampico.
The federals hold the center of
Tampico and the water front.
Rear Admiral Fletcher has ordered
foreigners to take refuge on board
ships, where they will be under the
protection of his guns. He said early
in the day there would be no lombard
ment of Tampico proper by Mexican
warships
Juarez, Dec. 13.-Americans who ar
rived on Thursday from Chihuahua re-
ported that since their occupation of
that city the rebels had entered the
British vice-consulate and forcibly
seized Luis Terrazas, Jr., son of the
wealthiest land owner in Mexico, and
after carrying him through the streets,
placed him in jail. The rebels also
served notice on 100 Spanish residents
OF Chihuahua that they must leave
the city within ten hours.
The invasion of the British consul
ate and the seizure Of Terrazas, who
had gone there for protection after
hearing that his life was in danger,
were reported to have occurred dur
ing the absence of the British vice
consul, Mr.. Scobell.
1t was said that Scobell, enraged at
the action of Gen. Francisco Villas
army, was denied facilities to protest
to the British minister at Mexico City
or to the British ambassador at Wash
ington and that he then appealed to
the United States consul, Martin
Letcher.
All the foreign ministers are said
to have Joined in protest in what
was regarded as a violation of the
rights Of asylum under foreign flag.
1t was said that demand for $780,
600 which young Terrazas failed to
pay was the chief motive for his ar
rest. Luis Terrazas, aged father of
the prisoner, recently arrived at
OJinaga with the federal troops. His
great wealth has been a special mark
for discussion in the propaganda of
the revolution, while thousands of his
cattle have served to feed both rebels
and federals.
Washington, Dec. 13.-While Mex.
ican federals and rebels were contin-
u1ng their battle at Tampico on Thurs.
day Rear Admiral Fletcher, command
er OF the American warships in and
near the harbor there, cabled the navy
department as follows:
Il have warned the leaders of both
sides that fighting will not be allowed
near the neutral territory assigned to
VI uSdl NdludDl6
eign property"
Admiral Fletcher reported earlier
in the day that the fighting continued
all night without change, but that the
constitutionalists were making prog
ress in their attack on Tampico. He
added that Americans and all other
foreigners had been taken to a neu-
trail zone for protection under Amer
lean guns.
Admiral Fletcher telegraphed ear
lier:
"The Tacoma and Chester are in
the river with $50 marines from the
American battleships aboard. A place
of safety for Americans and other for
eigners has been assigned under the
guns of the warships.
"The steamer Logician, which has
been chartered by the British admiral
and manned by crew from the Brit
ish cruiser Suffolk, has all the British
residents of the town on board
"All the Germans are aboard the
steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie."
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