The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-21
FIRST AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
WILL BE. MADE ON VERA CRUZ
WASHINGTON, April 90 Secretary Daniels late
this afternoon directed Admiral Badger send three
OF his battleships to Vera Cruz instead of Tampco.
This means that the first aggressive will be
in Vera Cruz
HERE'S MESSAGE READ BY
PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS

withdraw and to lodge a protest with
the commanding officer of the fleet.
Admiral Mayo regarded the arrest as
so serious an affront that he was
not satisfied with the apologies Of
fered, but demanded that the flag of
the United States be saIuted with
special ceremony by the military COM
mander of the port.
The incident cannot be regarded as
o trivial one, epecially as two of the
men arrested were taken from the
boat itself-that is to say, from the
territory Of the United States; but
had it stood by tself it might have
been attributed to the ignorance or ar
rogance of single officer. Unfor-
tunately, it was not an isolated case.
A series of incidents have recently
occurred which cannot but create the
impression that the representatives of
General Huerti were willing to go out
OF their way to show disregard for the
dignity and rights of this governm ent.
and felt perfectly safe in doing what
|tney pleased, making free to show III
many ways their irritation and COZ
tempt. A few days after the incident
lat Tampico, an orderly from the [. S.
rs. Minnes ota was arrested 1T Vera
Cruz while ashore in uniform to obtain
the ships mail, and was for a time
thrown into Jail. An official di i,2a.3h
from this government to its embassy
at Mexico City was withheld by the
authorities of the telegraphic service
until peremptorily demanded by cur
Charge d'Affaires in person. So far
as | can learn, such wrongs and an
noyances have been suffered to occur
only against representatives OF the
United States. | have heard of no
complaints from other governments Of
similar treatment. Subsequent ex.
plantations and formal apologies did
not and could not alter the popular
impression, which it is possible it had
been the object of the Huerista au-
thorities 10 create, that the govern
ment Of the United States was being
singled out, and might be singled out
with impunity Cor sights and affronts
in retaliation for it's refusal to
recognize the pretensions of General
Huerta to be regarded as the con
stitutional provisional president of the
republic of Mexico.
The manifest danger OF such a sit
uation was that such Cffenses might
grow from bad to worse until some
thing happened Of so gross and in
tolerable a sort as to lead directly and
inevitably to armed conflict. It was
necessary that the apologies of Gen
eral Huerta and his representatives
should go much further, that they
should be such as to attract the at
tention of the whole population to
their significance, and such as to i'm
press upon General Huerta himself
the necessity OF seeing to it that no
further occasion for explanation and
professed regrets should arise l.,
therefore, felt it my duty to sustain
Admiral Mayo in the whole of his de-
mand, and to insist that the flag of
the United States should be saluted in
such way as to indicate a new spirit
and attitude on the part of Huertis-
tas.
Such salute General Huerta has
refused, and I have come to ask your
approval and support in the course I