The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-22
TO FORCE SALUTE
L. s. BATTLESHIPS SENT TO BACK
MAYO'S DEMAND.
insult MUST Be ATONED
Navy Thrown into a Fever Of Excite
ment When Almost Entire Atlantic
Fleet, Including Eleven Battle
ships, Are Ordered to Tampico to
Enforce Public Salute to Flag.

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President Wilson Tuesday ordered
virtually the entire Atlantic fleet to
Mexican waters to force a public
salute to the Stars and Stripes from
the Huerta government as an apol-
ogy for the arrest of American ma
rines at Tampico last Thursday. No
ultimatum has been issued, that is,
no specific time has been sent within
which the Huerta government must
comply, but the naval demonstration
has been ordered as a concrete evi-
dence of the fixed determination Of
the United States to back up Admiral
Mayo's demand for salute.
Up to Tuesday night Gen. Huerta
had not made satisfactory response
to that demand. Future develop
ments depend on Huerta himself"
was the way high administration Of
6cial close to the president summa-
rized the situation.
The decision to send the feet was
reached after the president and Sec
retary Bryan had conferred for an
hour with John Lind, personal repre-
sentative of the president in Mexico,
and after a two-hour cabinet meet
ing, during which dispatches from
Charge O'Shaughnessy revealed that
the Huerta government disputes the
right of American marines to be
ashore at Tampico, and contended
that it's recent public statement OF
apology was ample.
immediately after the cabinet
meeting adjourned Secretary Daniels
issued his order to the Atlantic fleet
and wireless messages flashed up ond
down the Atlantic coast to put the
feet under steam for Tampico. 1t
will be the largest fighting force the
American government has assembled
for positive action since the Spanish
American war. Eleven great battle
ships, with auxiliaries, carrying in all
about $1,000 men, will comprise the
force at Tampico.
The navy department sent COM
plete instructions to Rear Admiral
Bodger, commander-in-chief of the
Atlantic fleet, on board the battleship
Arkansas, at Hampton Roads. Rear
Admiral Fiske, chief of the bureau
CT operations, LETT Washington imme-
diarely for the Roads to personally
explain to Admiral Badger the diplo-
matte side of the situation and dis
patches from Rear Admiral Mayo.
Indicating the exact ships which Will
accompany Admiral Badger, the navy
department issued the following:
admiral Badger will take with
him the battleships Arkansas, Louis
lana, New Hampshire, michigan, Yer
mont, New Jersey and South Caro-
lima, which last ship has been inter-
cepted on her way from Haiti to
Hampton Roads. The gunboat Taco
ma, now at Boston, Mass, has been
ordered also to Tampico Ly way OF
Newport, R. l., and will start about
Thursday. The gunboat Nashville,
now at Monte Christi, San Domingo,
has been ordered to Guantanamo TO
coal and thence to Tampico.
The Rhode Island, Nebraska, Vir-
ginia and Georgia are now docking;
it has not been decided yet whether
they will join Admiral Badger S
forces. The transport Hancock will
leave New Orleans for Tampico to-
day with the First regiment OF the
expeditionary force Of marines" The
foregoing ships are in addition to the
Utah, Connecticut, Minnesota, Des
Moines, Chester, Dolphin and San
Francisco, at Tampico, and the Flor
ida and Prairie, at Vera Cruz.
While the navy was active, there
was no army movement. Two expla-
nations for this we're advanced-the
desire that the Constitutionalists in
control of Northern Mexico should
not misinterpret the action, and the
fact that the United States has al
ready a big fighting force within
striking distance of Mexico. Twelve
thousand troops are at Texas City,
where four army transports are at