Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-13
DANIELS READS RIOT
ACT TO REFUGEES WHO
COMPLAINED OF MAYO
If Rescue Had Not Been LET. 80 Brit.
ish Officers. Massacre ct For
eisners Would Have Re-
suited, He Says.

1 NSAt, -AAN - OClS@tItpis OL
American citizens from Tampico called
on Secretary of the Navy Daniels this
afternoon n denounced the adminis-
tration's Mexican policy. These men
Will call on Secretary of State Bryan
and lay their grievances before him.
Secretary Daniels informed his call
ers they ought to be happy they got
off with their lives. He said they had
gone to Mexico to get big profits and
they shouldn't expect the United States
to look after them IL they didn't stay
at home.
was the view of the Washington adj
ministration they were ashamed OF
their American citizenship.
Furthermore. the delegation accused
Rear Admiral Mayo of c~owardice. be-
cause he steamed out Of Tampico and
left them TO the mercy of the Mexicans.
after this country had ordered the seiz-
Oro Of Vera Cruz.
Secretary Daniels told them they
didn't know What they were talking
about; If Rear Admiral Mayo hadn't
steamed away they would all be dead:
and If Tampico had been seized many
more would nave been killed also.
Secretary Daniels callers were w. /.
Lucas. spok esman for the refugees; j.
B. Wood. III. w. Dixon. H. G. Kerren.
l.. NJ. Fouts, w. NJ. Hanson and DIR. w.
NJ. Turner.
st8VS w
MIR. Daniels asserted that the course
OF the government had made 1t pos
sible to bring all Americans out of the
Tampico district in safety, and that Its
first efforts always had been to protect
lives first. although property interests
had not been dtsregarded.
The statement threw new light on
some of the circumstances that have
guided the department in its actions.
and announced that Admiral Mayo re-
Trained from sending his ships into the
river at Tampico to bring out Ameri-
cans only upon the urgent request of
the British naval commander there.
who asked that for the sake OF all for
eigners he be allowed to take out the
Americans.
drawn from rampico in the first place.
the secretary said. because 1t was
thought their presence at Vera Cruz
would be essential. Later, he explained.
IT wound nave been Impossible for Mayo
to HAY" rome into the river with his
ships rescue refugees.
"EN had 1t been possible, however,"
con:in ID The statement, under cover
of the guns of the ships available to
have brought these refugees in the
city of Tamp;co, itself safely on board.
word of aggressive action by the Am
orleans would have spread to the sur
rounding country far swifter thar any
relief expedition could have travelled to
their rescae, ana 1t Is almost certain
that reprisal OF American citizens
would have followed and lives would
have followed and lives would have
been lost. SO clear was this that the
captain of the British man of war earn
estly advised Admiral Mayo not to
send any ships back to Tampico. basing
his recommendation on his Judgment
that it would be precarious, that II
would only result IN the loss OF life.
so earnest WAS the British captain.
n so confident Of this. that he Of
fered to undertake the work of collect
ing all of the refugees and taking them
out to our ships II we would only re-
frain from further arousing sentiment.
which was nearly at white heat at that
time. by sending our ships up the
| river"