The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-08-01
AEROPLANE BOMB
WRECKS GUNBOAT
Aviator Drops Explosive on
Mexican Warship.
FEAT EXECUTED BY MASON
Sails over Fleet Which Bombards At
lacking Rebels on Land and
Drops Deadly Missile
on Craft.

Nogales, Ariz, July BON Mas
son, a French aviator, dropped bomb
on the federal gunboat Tampico and
totally destroyed the craft in Quay
mas harbor, declares an official In
surgent message Monday. The event
is unique in history. Mason succeed
ed in hitting the war vessel after
three attempts.
The insurgent investment of Quay
mas was resumed and a second col
umn was to be pushed forward at
night, under cover of darkness, rein
forcing the extreme front, which is
composed of 1000 men, half of them
Yaquis. Federal gunboats in the har-
Dor shelled insurgent positions all day.
Mason announced he would make an
other attempt to drop bombs on the
warships.
The Mexican gunboat Tampico was
built at Elizabethport, N. j., in 1902.
She is 200 feet over all, 33 feet beam
and draws ten feet. Her armament
consists of two four-inch guns and six
six-pounders. Her complement of Of
fcers and men is 100. She has two tor
pedo tubes, both above water.
Gov. Ignacio Pasqueira received
word of the reported insurgent vic
tory while he was on the way north
from Hermosillo. He was met at No
gales, Sonora, by Jose Maytorent, the
Sonora governor, who has been at
Tucson, Ariz., leaving affairs of state
with Pesquiera. 1t was said the t,Fo
would confer regarding either cleo
tons or turning over the government
to Maytorena.
Washington, July 30.-Representa-
tive Smith Of Texas asked Secretary
Bryan Monday to remove Consul Ed
wards at Juarez because of his refusal
to allow so Americans to go to the re-
lief of refugees at MADEIRA.
Washington, July 30.-Official Sc
crecy surrounds the fifty-minute inter
view that took place between Presi-
dent Wilson and Henry Lane Wilson,
ambassador to Mexico Monday. The
administration has not formulated any
new policy yet with regard to the in
ternational problem.
In high administration circles it is
said that at the interview Ambassa-
dor Wilson made verbal report on
conditions in Mexico as viewed by
him.
Ambassador Wilson submitted a
recommendation that the United
States use it's influence to establish
the Huerta regime.
FL Paso, Tex, July 23.-Following
the demand made by American Consul
T. D. Edwards Sunday, the Mexican
federal officials at JuareZ, Mex, re-
leased Charles B. Dixon, Jr., the United
States immigration inspector who was
shot in the back on Saturday by Mex
lean federal troops. Mr.. Dixon was
taken to a hospital at Ell Paso, Tex.
The demand of Consul Edwards was
in vigorous language, The consul said
relative to reparation:
Il do not merely request the arrest
of these men, but in the name of the
United States government, which
have the honor to represent, | demand
their immediate punishment for th.s
crime Ny government will hold the
military authorities Of JuareZ per
sonally responsible for failure to obey
this command"
Arthur Walker the negro who Dixon
was Investigating when he was ar
rested. and the soldiers who made the
arrest were Immediately placed in
jail, according to the report Of Colonel
Castro, commanding the Juarez garri-
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spector of immigration for the United
States on the Mexican border.
Dixon was released to Mr.. Berkshire
and brought to Ell Paso to hospital,
where his physicians believe he will
| recover.