The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-04-30
REPORTED INSULTS
INCENSE PRESIDENT
HUERTA FOLLOWERS BURN u. S.
FLAGS AND IMPRIsoN CON-
SuL-GENERAL.
OFFICIAL REPORT is RECEIVED
Bryan of the ~lndignities Suffered
at Monterey by Order of Federal
officers-Fr reed by Rebels.

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Wilson and Secretary Bryan were
greatly incensed upon receiving a dis
patch from Consul-General Phillip c..
Hanna at Monterey, Mexico, announc-
ing that he had been subjected to in
suits and i~ndignities by Mexican fed
eral officers there and kept a prisoner
in the government palace from April
% until the Constitutionalist forces
captured the town two days later.
Flags Are Burned.
The consul reported that mobs led
by federal officials tore down all the
American flags in the city, trampled
upon them and burned them up in the
streets.
Upon the arrival of the Constitution
alists Mr.. Hanna was released and
treated with mared consideration. He
said the rebel officers made speech
es in front of the state house giving
assurances of full protection to all
foreigners and non-combatants.
Long Conference Follows.
Secretary Bryan went to the White
House and had a long conference with
the president when the consul-gener-
ais report reached the state depart
ment.
Mr.. Hanna's message to Secretary
Bryan was dispatched from Monterey.
The telegram follows, in part: "On
the t~wenty-first of April a Federal mil.
itary officer by the name of Captain
Alvarez Del Castillo, evidently in
structed by the Federal military COM
mander to tear down all American
flags, arrived at this consulate-general
with a street mob which he had gath.
cred, about A o'clock in the afternoon,
pounded on the door and demanded
that the American flag over this con.
sulate-general be Immediately lowered
or he would shoot it down, and the
other Federals proceeded to tear down
all American flags, standing on them,
making speeches throughout the city
of Monterey, burning some of them,
and tearing them up and leaving them
piled in the middle of the streets.
Most Insulting Act.
1T was the most insultig act that
any of the people of Monterey have
W. witnessed. They then placed a
police guard in front of this consul
late-general and all the inmates in
this building were considered prison
ers. The next morning, the twenty
second of April, about 10 o'clock, a pc.
lice lieutenant arrived with a force Of
men and advised me that he had been
instructed to search the building. The
insulting search was completed
about noon, when your consul-general
vas taken, prisoner, through the
streets with the mob and carried first,
to the penitentiary, and afterwards to
the state government palace, which
building has been for some time mill.
tary headquarters and fortified, and
was subject Of special attack by the
then attacking forces.
insuIted Because of Position.
while l was placed under heavy
guard in the grand reception room of
the state palace. / fully realized that
l vas constantly being considerably
insulted and greatly Inundated, not
on account of my personality, but on
account of my official position as rep.
resentative of the United States gov
eminent in Northern Mexico.
"At about s o'clock in the evening
Of April %, / was taken before the
military court and notified that l was
charged with being in sympathy with
the constitutionalist chiefs and as be-
ing friendly to certain constitutional.
list generals, and especially General
Pablo Gonzales and General Antonio
Villareal.
81 was kept a prisoner until the
evacuation Of the city by the federal
forces and until the arrival of the
Constitutional forces. There were
times during the period when it was
believed by many that l would be shot
or carried to the mountains as their
prisoner in case the federals ~eyacuat-
od