Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-15
President Wilson Determined to Force Huerta Govern
 ment to Salute Stars and Stripes.
FORMIDABLE ARRAY TO BACK MAYO's DEMAND
United States Force Of Tampco Will Number 15 GOO Men Big Fighting Force of Army Already Close to Border of Mexico-Not Thought in Military Circles that Interven- ton Will be Necessary.

Washington, April President Wilson today ordered practically tht entire Atlantic fleet to Mexican waters to force a public salute to the Stars and Stripes from the Huerta govern ment as an apology for the arres-' ol American marines at Tamplco .las Thursday.
 No ultimatum has been issued tha- is no specified time has beer set when tic Huerta government mus rompiy-but the naval demonstra io1 has been ord ared as a concrete eVi- uence Of the fixed determination of the United stats - back p RtaV Nd mira May"'s deM MaEd for q salute
 Cp to tualisAt General Huer.a hat not made satisfactory response to that demand
 Future developments depend upor Huerta himself" was the way a bigf administration official close to the president summarized the situation.
 The decision to S nd the flee, was reached after the president and Sec retary Bryan had conferred for ar hour with john Lind, personal rexre- sentative If the president in Mexico and after a two hour cabinet meet ing. during which despatches from Charse D'ShaughncSsy revealed thai the Hrt"t1 gDVe- nnt nt disputed the r-sil, spE AEIeri an marines to be asForc -t Tsulpico and contenGed tha; tine recent uU9lic statement oI apol- teT was smgle.
 Wireless Nessages FI7ahed to Fleet
 immediately after tha cabinet meet lnS a15pU.1al Secre.@T. Daniels is sued his 2-t-T to he Atlantic fleet aro wireless W-=slgss flashed pp and duw- tsg Atian3ic coast to put the Fleet uuuer steam fpr,raupico. IL will i'- the iarsrs: lSrsiag force Jne Amer jean 9oyrIl lrcnt has assembled for possibic a1tion s-nce taN spanish -AWr-iCs- wal. Eleven great battle s1iFs WitlI auX;liaIies. carrying in all loIt Ia.eHe men. will comprise the fore of Tampfco.
 2. CT. $ i,ere-:.t the White House tho -tase Esrlment and the navy de- sTtmeE--titc hope was expressed that 4fe despatcl cf Lae Iieet would not lead to srl'io g censcquences and there was .97, ce-t prediction among admin ts tg,. -I-n ClE ccs that General Huerta would la the wisdom of satifying the -' 'if-s--..'n Cea-aud and close the in ciG~n. Officials were careful to point Q; ,aat T. gotta ions with the .Huerta soye nIIent had not ended and that the way was still open to General Huorta to make amends.
 In the meantime, the navy depart men scnt complete instructions to Rear Admiral Badger. commander-in- chief Of the Atlantic fleet on board III OdlI-Nz4tlp S1hdlSdS dC f1anpLO1 Roads. Rear Admiral Ffske. chief oi the bureau or operations, left here for the Roads tonight personally tc explain to Admiral Badger the diplo- matic side of the situation and the GeSpatches from Rear Admiral Mayo thus far received. Indicating the exact ships which will accompany Admiral Badger the navy department issued the following:
 Admiral EadQer's Squadron,
 Admiral Badger will take with him the batt.eships Arkansas. Louisiana New Hampshire, Michigan, Vermont New Jersey and South Carolina, which last sh:p h2s been intercepted on hel way from Haiti to Hampton Roads.
 The guc5tat Tacoma, now at Bos- ton. Mass. has been also ordered tC TampiCG ny way of Newport, R. l. and wi. s,art today or tomorrow
 The giu"oat Nashville. now a Mon Christie san Domingo, has been or deIed Q -;dantanamo to coal and thence to Tampico.
 Tn Rhode Island. Nebraska. Vir- gin.a and Georgia are now dorling Ii has not been decided yet whether they will join Admiral Badgers forces
 The transport Hancock will leave New Orleans for Tampico today witf the First regiment of the expeditions ary force of marines.
 The fore going ships are in addition to the Utah, Connecticut, Minnesota Des MOi1es, Chester. Dolphin and Sal Francisco now at Tampico and th' Florida and Prairie, now at Vera Cruz The torpedo boat fotilIa at Pensacola Fla. has been ordered to stand by foI orders.
 While the navy moved on the At lantic coast, Secretary Daniels tonigh tion in the Pacific. Most of the Amer lean war craft in the Pacific alread. are in Mexican waters
 Army Remains Passive,
 While the navy was active, no wheel turned in the army. Tw explanations for this were advanced the desire that the constitutionalist who are in control of northern Mex ico should not misinterpret the action and the fact that the United State already has a big fighting force within striking distance of Mexico. lively thousand troops are at Texas City where four army transports are a anchor and thousands of cavalry an infantry are spread along the borde where they can be moved quickly.
 High administration officials do no expect critical developments, but the aIv rrcgarei for any emergency Sec retarE Bryan. who is i'll, had intende 10 leave to.cight for Miami, Fla H cancelled his reseryation and an
 
 ton indefinitely. Senator Sh.Eeiy act ing chairman of the senate foreigl relations committee. had a long con ference with AIr Bryan and called a the White House as well. lie sai tha; al the regular meeting of tn committee tomorrow he would trans init all the information he had ob tained today
 The status of the case as summed U by cabinet officers and other official familiar with the messages that hay been passing between Rear Admire Mayo, Charge O'Shaughnessy and tn Washington government was describe As follows:
 Incident That Caused Order
 Assistant Paymaster Charles ( CoDp and a boatload of marines lande at Tainpico last Thursday to obtai supplies They were arrested bu later discharged. In accordance wit regulations in all navies of the worlt Rear Admiral Mayo. on eonsiderin that an unwarranted arrest had bee made. and that the uniform of tn American navy had been disregardet demanded reparation in the form of salute of -l guns. The American fai