Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-27
OUTRAGES
COMMITTED BY
THE MEXICANS
Harold Mapes, Fresh from the
Scenes of crueItieS, Relates
Familiar Incidents
ONE -EARED MEN HAVE MET
FORCES OF GEN. HUERTA
Declares intervention by U. S.
Will Eventually Prove to
Be Only Solution

Informed by his employers at4Guan-
atuat0, Mexico, that the situation
is too dangerous to permit his return
there, Harold Mapes, mining engi-
neer. before departing yesterday for
the Orient on the steamer Korea
briefly sketched the Mexican situation
as he has seen IL
Mapes was driven out Of Guanajau-
to shortly after the Vera Cruz Incl
dent and barely escaped with his life.
Several times before in Halisco mining
camps attempts were made to kill him.
warfare In Mexico" hesaid. "is not
war waged by a unified government
hut by brigands and bandits Of unbe-
! ilieyabie cruelty. They 60 from one
town to another, pillaging. numbering
ard looting at will They claim alle-
glance first to one power. then to an
other. as an excuse for their deeds.
give contingents are now in the
field--the Villa men Huertistas, Zapa-
.tistas, Reyistas and the Felixistas, the.
believers In Felix DEfz They are all
lighting at cross purposes.
.Of the leaders of these bands, Hu-
erta had the greatest chance of set
ting the situation IN the opinion of
American residents in Mexico. Huerta
lad the friendship Of the national
army and was fighter and dictator.
"A dictator is what Mexico needs.
No general rule will be effective In
Mexico for many years. A hand Of
iron Is what Is needed Huerta came
nearer having It than any other aspi-
rant to the leadership Of Mexico.
Had the United States recognized
Hnerta, An icans n Mexico believe
that the present Situation could have
ResardIhs the moot topic Of inter-
Ivention Mapes said
"It Is ineyifabIe There can be no
other solution IAt.b 0hfTing peoples,
of Mexico are Ignorant. cruel Indians,
very few Of whom can read or Hrites
Spanish. Thousands ado not even
speak Spanish 1t Is patent that they
cannot rule themselves. They do not
want to rule themselves.
Nor do they want to work. 1t Is
easier to pillage and murder than to-
work. The majority of the fighters
are bandits, nothing more.
sAs an example of their cruelty, let
me cite that almost a hundred men
working for me had only one ear each.
The other ear had been hacked off by
men claiming to be adhersnts of H,-
erta The sufferers were adherents a
zapata.
Again: coming from Guanajauto.
where our mine was stormed seven
days by bandits. met man named
Burley and his wife. Burley had teen
captured In San Luis PDtosi by ban
dts who removed the skin from his
feet, then bad him run over sharp
stones heated by the tropic sua.
Greater outfages were committed up
on Mrs. Burley.
I'm every instance they show hatred
of the United States. Moreover they
do not respect the United States. One
American whose property was pill
laged, objected. and they stood him up
at sunrise, pinned his American citi-
zenship papers to his breast and shot
him. This was in Chihuahua. For
tunately all Americans are now out
of Mexico. Immediately after the
Vera Cruz incident the lives OF Amer
ican citizens were worth nothing and
those who escaped were fortunate In
deed. was one OF the fortunate ones
In the meanwhile billion dollar prop
critics are being looted and are idle