The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-05-01
i've years old. who Will stop at moth

will be the only way he can be dealt
with. | have ridden on trains with
him many times. He is a robber ban
dit Of the worst type, although If you
not antagonize him he will not
bother you.
There will never be a union Of the
forces of Huerta, Carranza and Ia
pata. That's out of the question.
Each band will fight this country to
the last ditch.
THE better class of Mexicans-
those whose haciendas and property
have beer torn from them by the
robbere-welcome Intervention. 1t is
only the poems, or the poor working
people. who are fighting. and they are
so ignorant that they do not now
who they are fighting for. The Next
cans won't stand up and fight. They
are treacherous. deceptive and sneaky-
They are all cowards-and their word
is no good"
Routes to Mexico City.
Washington.-If invasion OF Mex
leo should be ordered, it is believed
Mexico City again will be the chief
goal Of the American troops, as In the
former war with Mexico, and vera
Cruz will be the starting point.
There are two routes from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City. One Is the ia
lapa route. taken by General Scott in
his advance in the former war. The
other is the Orizaba route, used by
the French when Macmillan invaded
Mexico.
The Jalapa route has a narrow
gauge railroad from Vera Cruz to-
Mexico City. The distance s approx
mately 300 miles. The Orizaba route
has a standard-gauge railroad and Is
$50 miles long.
There is only a small force OF fed
erals in Vera Cruz today, under Cen
eral Mas.
The Mexican army hardly would be
able TO withstand the march Of the
Americans from Vera Cruz to Mexico
City BY either route, according to high
military officials here. The largest
number OF men Huerta could handle
would be about 10000.
The march probably would be fea-
tured by a number Of engagements.
each n marking a further Yan
by the Americans.
In the fighting at Vera Cruz, IN the
center of the inner harbor san Juan
de Uloa, an ancient stone fortress,
flew the Mexican flag throughout the
attack. Captain Stickney Of the Prai-
RE sent word to the c-ommandant OF
San Juan de Uloa that he would blow
him TO pieces with the Prairie's guns
if he opened fire against the Ameri-
cans. but that otherwise he would not
be disturbed. The commaudant re-
piled that he would answer with ais
cannon if fired on. but that he would
not begin hostilities.
Fired on Tars at Tanpico.
Galveston. Tex-American sailors
We're fired upon by a Mexican gunboat
at Tampico on two or three different
occasions. and once German and Eng
lish sailors were fired upon, according
to Chief Engineer Murray OF the
steamer Herbert C. Wylie, which ar
rived here today from Tampico.
Murray said he had seen the Mexi-
can gunboat Vera Cruz take pot
shots" at cutters flying the United
States flag. He said on one occasion
cutters from an American man-of-war
a, and from German and English boats
. went ashore without their flags fly
ing, their occupants landing and start
: ing afoot toward the village OF Dona
a Cecilia. The Vera Cruz dropped a
shell near them.
r Occupants OF all three boats then
, hurried back to the water front, where
they hoisted their flags in their re
o spective boats, an. there was no more
firing.
/ mo Desire for Conquest"
New York.-Nilliam Bayard Hale
p President Wilson's unofficial investiga
tor OF affairs in Mexico, has contrib
2 uted TO the Worlds Work an article
unfolding the presidents Mexican pol
. icy and pointing out an important de
n velopmerI in the character OF Ameri
can diplomacy. This, he explains. is
An Interpretation Of the Monroe doc
trine that establishes the suzeraintl
of the United States only as an ef
fective source OF moral inspiration
over the nations of Central Americ,
n and the West Indies,
n Our Moral Empire in America" Il
V the title of the article, Discussing TIT
possibility of intervention in Mexico
e tthe article was written before TIL
J. fleet was ordered to Tampico). d.
e Hale says:
An American army would have n
Y physical difficulty in getting back GU
It Of Mexico; nobody would use it u
II before it got away; the difficulty woul
y be that greed and a false sense of ma
tional honor would do their utmost I
st keep US there permanently in occups
ton
Y. If armed intervention should b
n forced upon the government, he COZ
tinues.
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