The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-05
.HEAP|NG INSULTS
ON NHATED YANKEES
No Epithets Too Vile or Acts
Too Frcnzied to Show Mexi-
lean Contempt.
WROUGHT TO HIGHEST PITCH
No Doubt About Southern Re-
public Being at War With
United States.
WROUGHT TO HIGHEST PITCH
BY n. A. JENNINGS.

Mexico City, May (by courier
| TO Vera Cruz, and dispatch boat to
Galveston).-Whethe or not washing
| ton considers that war is on with
| Mexico is a question for the diplomats
! to decide, but the people OF this cap
| ital have decided II for themselves
without the shadow of doubt. The
| United States may not be at war with
Mexico, but Mexico is certainly at war
with the United states. and. accord
| ing to the newspapers. Is organizing
| an invading army to march through
| Texas and capture q large portion of
hated Yankceland.
Ever since the news came here that
the United states marines had landed
| In Vera Cruz and taken the city by the
sea, the people have been in a frenzy
! OF excitement, and their patriotic
| fervor has been wrought up to the
| highest pitch b. tho local press Stories
have been published of how the Yam
kee swine have wantonly slaughtered
women and children in Vera Cruz
until the streets ran red.
KILLING OF CADETS CALLED
MOST FOUL AND DAMNABI.I:
The killing of some cadets of the
naval school at the seaport has been
characterized as murder, most foul
and damnable, of the Child heroes" as
the naval cadets are called. The fact
that the infantile martyrs were blaz-
ing away at the marines with Mauscr
rifles is considered no excuse whatever
for the marines shooting at them.
Ever since Tuesday. April 22, great
moba have been tramping through the
streets Of the capital yelling: Death
to the Yankees: Death TO the Grin
goes The mobs have formed early
In the morning and kept 1t UP far
into the night. stoning American
places OF business. looting American
Z
/ unaware, dragging the stars and
stripes through the streets. putting the
American flag down on the muddy as
phait and tranpllng over 1t. while the
national hymn OF Mexico was sung.
insulting women. and doing everything
thcy could thinh OF 10 show their nat
rcd of the vile p!Hs or the northern
republic"
The pnrading and shouting OF the
nobs began late Tuesday afternoon
and continued until after midnight.
| That night they attacked the Ameri-
can Club and broke all the windows.
thcy broke the big plate windows OF
| Porter's Hotel, they entered and loot
ed curio store owned by an Ameri-
can. and committed other minor out
rages.
About 10 O'Clock Wednesday morn
Ing the mobs formed again and
amused themselves by tearing up nj,
dragging larger pnes through the
/ mud.
That night they stoned the office OF
American Consule-General ShankIin.
| and tore the United States coat of
arms from the doorway. They again
assaulted the American Club and
gained admittance, partly wrccking
the clubhouse and driving out and
maltreatng the club servants.
General Agramentc and Major Yea
ger. president and manager, respec-
lively. OF the club, were arrested and
thrown into prison for no other re:l-
son than that they were officers OF
I the organization.
General Agramcnte has lived In
| Mexico thirtyfive years. is eighty
four years old and has always been
on most friendly terms with the Mex
leans. He is a veteran OF the Civil
War.
Major Yeager also is AN old resi-
dent OF Mexico and a Civil War vet
| BANK BUILDING MOBBED
AND MANY STORES LOOTED
That same night mohs stoned the
Mexico City Bank Building and IIman
Beck, president of the bank, and Mr..
Ramsay. the banks auditor. for hav-
Ing arms In their possession. San
borns American drug stores were en-
tered and sacked. the American groc-
cry store was burned after being
| sacked. The Tampico News Company y
stores, an immense department store
owned by two Russians, was looted,
and nearly every American owned
| place OF business was attacked and
| the windows broken.
On the same night the great bronze
statue of George Washington was
| dragged from its pedestal In Colona
| Roma and pulled through the streets
| by automobiles TO the Benito Juarez
! monument, in the Alameda, where It
was left lying at the feet OF the
! Mexican hero. face downward. The
mob which accomplished this was led
by son OF President Huerta. and his
| automobile helped drag Washington s
| statue through the streets.
The police did not attempt to inter
fere with any demonstrations. I per-
sonalIy saw them stand quietly by and
watch four men break the windows III
Porter's store. IN the mobs were some
policemen off duty, many young MeXi-
can army officers. members Of the
Chamber of Deputies. and any number
of minor government officials. They
marched shoulder to shoulder with
bare footed rilados. wellknown rate
ros." or pickpockets. abandonea women
and the ragtag and hobtail of the city
! Some Of the destroying mobs were
led by government regimental bands
playing the national hymn.
When American Consul-General Ar
mold Shanklin and his staff left the
capital to go to Vera Cruz with Nelson
OShaughnessy, tho American charge
daffaires. the mob broke into the con-
sulate. looted it and pulled tho flags
| from the windows.
CONFIsCATE ALL ARMS
AT AMERICAN EMBASSY
The Mexican government contscated
all the arms at the American embassy
including the two machine guns and
2hG Krag- -Jorgensen riGes, with about
| &C, 900 rounds OF ammunition.
| Then the soldiers confiscated all the
arms at the British concentration fead
quarters and searched every room In
the Hotel Geneve for arms. despite the
protest OF II. s. Gore, the Canadian pro
| prietor. They also made house to
| house search for arms and ammunition