The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-22
Huerta Gave 0'Shaughnessy
His Passports MAY Be First
Step In Declaration of War

WASHINGTON, APRIL 22.-coNsUL CANADA, UNDER
DATE OF A. NJ, cABLED THAT HE EXPECTED THE FIGHT
AT VERA CRUZ CEASE WITHIN AN HOUR. THE
TOTAL AMERICAN FORCES ASHORE NUMBERED 5000 AND
THEY WERE WELL INTO THE CITY SITUA-
TON HAND.
cANADAs LATEST DISPATCH, GIVEN OUT AT II A. M,.
SAYS: ...---....~..-
"FIRINe COMMENCED AT DAYRREAk THE SHIPS ARE
sHELLlNG THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. A
LARGE FORCE LANDED FROM ADMIRAL BADGERS FLEET
BEFORE DAYRREAK
"coPIEs OF A PROCLAMATION, ISSUED REAR AD.
MRAL FLETCHER, REQUESTING AT ONCE THE co-oPERA,
TIoN OF THE MAYOR MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY IN RE-
STORING ORDER, HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED,
BEEN UNABLE AS YET TO GET INTO COMMUNICATION WITH
THESE OFFICIALS. y "@..~, 2
"MAJoR RuTLER's FORCE OF MARINES TAMPIco
is NOW ASHORE. EXPECT THE CITY WILL BE QUIET LATER
IN THE MORNING. THE RATTLEsHlPs
FLORIDA, UTAH. ARKANSAS, VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEW JERSEY, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE TRANSPORT
PRAIRIE AND THE COLLIER ORION" . '.. ..' ~
FURTHER DISPATCHES FROM CANADA AT VERA CRUZ
STATE:
"HAVE SENT MESSENGERS TO ALL HOTEL KEEPERS
REOPEN THEIR EsTABLIsHME ENTs, WHICH GIVEN
FULL. PROTECTION. CUSTOMS HOUSE AND WAR HOUSE ON
FIRE, BUT ExTINGuIsHED. NOW INFORMED THAT
AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO ADVANCE
TO TAKE POSSESSION CITY. INFORMED ALSO THAT
FIRST TWO SECTIONS OF TRAIN CARRYING AMERICAN
REFUGEES FROM MEXICO CITY ARRIVED BEFORE FIGHTING
COMMENCED. THIRD SECTION ON ITS WAY, NOT
HEARD FROM. MAJOR cATLIN WITH FORCE MA
RINEs JUST LANDED TO ASSIST CAPTAIN NEVILLE THESE
ADDED TO 27oo BROUGHT ADMRALs BADGER
FLETcHER MAKE TOTAL NUMBER ASHORE 5000 OUR
FORCES ARE WELL CENTER CITY. NOW BELIEVE
FIGHTING WILL BE STOPPED WITHIN LESS THAN AN
HOUR" .- -. -...
VERA CRUZ, APRIL 22.-THERE WAS RENEWED FIGHT
ING TODAY OF GUERILLA CHARACTER, AS THE RESULT
or MEXICAN SOLDIERS, MANY INTOXICATED, BEING LEFT
WITHOUT COMMANDERS ALL MEXICAN OFFICERS WITH
GENERAL NGAAs.
ADMIRAL FLETCHER FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY,
IN VAIN TO FIND SOME RESPONSIBLE TO COM
MAND THE WITHDRAWAL OF MEXICAN SOLDIERS TO PRE-
VENT UNNECESSARY RLooDsHED. MEXICAN TROOPS WITH
A 175-MILLIMETRE GUN TOOK A POSITION AT THE CORNER
EsTERAN MORALES AND MAIN STREETS. THEN THE
AMERICAN FORCES WERE COMMANDED TO ADVANCE TO
TAKE ENTIRE CITY UNDER THE GUNS OF THE AMER.
CAN RATTLEsHlPS
AND FLAT -RooFED BUILDINGS WHICH FORMED CAP
lTAL SHELTER, COULD ONLY BE DisLoDGED WITH ARTIL-
LERY or THE RATTLEsHIPs.
ADMIRAL FLETCHER HEsITATED TO OPEN FIRE
SHELL ON THE CITY, BUT THE POSITIONS OF THE RIFLE
MEN ON ROOFS AND OTHER CONTINGENCIES SEEMED TO
MAKE 1T iMPERATIvE
1T is STATED THAT THE MEXICAN TROOPS FORMING
THE GARRISON AT VERA cR1z AS SOON 1T WAS SEEN
THAT THE AMERICANS WE'RE ABOUT TO LAND YESTERDAY,
WERE TURNED LOOSE AND TOLD TO ACT THEY SAW
COLONEL cERRLLo WAS ONE OF THE VERY FEW OFF,.
GERS THAT REMAINED WITH THE TROOPS. He COMMAND
ED THE NINETEENTH BATTALION AND WAS WOUNDED
EARLY IN THE FIGHTING.
CONSUL CANADA OFFICIALLY REPORTED THAT 15o
MExlcANs WERE KILLED YESTERDAY AND ALSO THAT
FOUR OF THE TWENTY.oNE AMERICAN RLuEJAckETs
AND MARINES, WOUNDED IN YESTERDAYS FIGHTING. ARE
IN A DANGEROUS CONDITION.
RElNFoRcEMENTs FROM REAR ADMIRAL BADGERS
FLEET LANDED UNDER THE GUNS or THE WARsHiPs AND &
PREPARED TO ASSIST FLETcHER's FORCES TO TAKE THE
ENTIRE CITY.
REAR ADMIRAL FLETCHER REPORTED THE MExIcANs
WERE FIRING FROM HoUsEToPs, THAT THE RIFLE
MEN WERE ONLY IRREGuLARs AND ARMED CITIZENS WHO
KEPT UP A SCATTERED FIRE FROM BEHIND THEIR SHELL
TERs. THE REGULAR Federal TROOPS FORMING THE
GARRISON VERA CRUZ ARE SAID TO HAVE WITHDRAWN.
TO DISTANCE OF FIFTEEN OR TWENTY MILES INLAND
REAR ADMIRAL BADGERS FLEET OF FIVE BATTLESIliPs
THE ARKANSAS VERMONT. NEW JERSEY NEW HAMP.
SOUTH CAROLINA-WERE# OUTSIDE THE
WATER They INCREASED THEIR SPEED TO SEVENTEEN
KNOTS FOR THE LAST EIGHT HOURS OF THEIR TRIP ON
RECEIPT OF THE REPORT FROM REAR ADMIRAL SFLETcH- #
CONDITIONS AT VERA CRUZ. <
THE FINAL DASH TO VERA CRUZ THE COLLIER
ORION AND THE FOUR TUGS, WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE b
FLEET WERE ouTsTRlPPED BUT WILL ARRIVE HERE TO d
DAY ssss%s
THE RATTLEsHiP MICHIGAN is ALSO DUE TODAY AND S
THE EATTLEsHiP LOUISIANA TOMORROW.
ALL THE AMERICAN WAR VESSELS ARE HELD IN READ #
MESS START TAMPIco AN HOURS NOTICE