The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-15
INTEREST AROUSED
EXPULSION OF SPAKIARDS MAY
CAUSE COMPLICATIONS
this Country WATCHING

Constitutionalist Chief Sustains Vii.
las Order and Affirms as a Consti.
tionalist Policy the Expulsion OF
Spaniards - Wealthy Refugees
Reach Border.
Official interest in the Mexican sit
uation at Washington Wednesday
night was divided between the grave
problem presented by the arrival OF
the 500 Spanish exiles at Ell Pasc
and the outcome of the battle at
Tampico. Sharp fighting already has
occurred at Tampico, and army and
navy strategists expect the battle
there to be the next decisive strug-
gle.
Rear Admiral Fletcher at Vera
Cruz Wednesday notified the navy
department that refugees already
were going aboard men-of-war in
Tampico harbor. He forwarded a
report from Rear Admiral Mayo at
that port asking for an army trans
port as refuge for non-comoatants.
The American feet at Tampico is
composed of the battleships Mime
sofa and Connecticut, the cruisers
Chester, Des Moines and San Fran
cisco and the dispatch boat Dolphin.
The battleship Utah has been ordered
there from Vera Cruz. Read Ad-
miral Fletcher reported he had Or
dered the hospital ship Solace, now
at New Orleans, to coal and be IN
readiness for service at Tampico.
State department officials were re-
ticent in discussing the expulsion OF
Spaniards, in whose behalf vigorous
representations were made to Gen.
Carranza. Officials were noncommit-
! tai when asked whether further rep
reservations would be made. The
| war department probably will be
called on to direct measures for the
care Of the refugees at Ell Paso, al
thou;.h at the state department late
Wednesday it was said that phase OF
the question had not been considered.
While officials agree that in inter-
national law these Spaniards have a
right to seek asylum on American
soil, it is realized that the problem
of their ultimate disposition is likely
to bring up many questions to be ad-
justed by the United States, Spain
and Mexico. The gravity Of the Sit
uation will be increased if the con-
stitutionalists carry out their threat
to drive the Spaniards out Of all the
territory they conquer.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas,
says eight hundred members of the
Torreon Spanish colony, expelled by
Gen. Villa, found a haven in the
United States Wednesday. They had
been stripped of their. property tenn
porarily at least but supplied with
temporary funds. They had refused
to leave the train in which they and
their baggage had come from Tor
reon to Juarez until American Con-
sular Agent Carothers arrived to ad-
wise them.
Carothers was unable to assure
any that they would be restored to
their homes, his interview with Gen.
Carranza having met with the fat
statement that expulsion Of Span
iards from Mexico was settled pol
icv of the rebels and would be modi-
fed only in the cases Of individuals
who had not been involved in poll
tics.
Rafael Arozena, wealthiest resident
Of the Laguna district and reported
to be the most extensive grower Of
sea island cotton in the world, was
one of the Spanish refugees who rode
to the border in second class coach,
with only his personal possessions to
show for his lifetime struggle in the
Coahuila cotton country.
AronZena is to the Coahuila Span
ish colony what Luis Terrazas is to
the Chihuahua refugee colony OF
Mexicans. He is the leader in COM
mercial activities of the Laguna dis
trict. owns a number of the largest
haciendas in the district and his
wealth is estimated at s17,OOO,O 600
Mexican currency.
Aronzena carried only Ieather
satchel, a big steamer rug and bag
filled with his personal belongings,
which he hastily gathered when the
order was given by Villa for the
spaniards to leave the country. The
Spanish millionaire is a striking look
ing man with heavy white beard, a
shock of white hair and pair of gold
trimmed glasses over which he looked
sharply when parrying the questions
Of reporters.
az am alone. My relatives and
my possessions are all in the Leguna
district" he said. II hope to be able
to return, for I have had no part in
the internal politics Of the country
For that reason I prefer not to say
anything for fear it will be misunder-
stood. I was not mistreated by any
one at Torreon and have no plans 1or
the immediate present"
The most important property left
behind the Spaniards was cotton said
to be valued at s15,o00,00o. Word
was received from Torreon Wednes'
day that s1,0oO.oO0 worth Of cotton
was being loaded on trains for snip
ment to Ell Paso by Villa.
It is said the Spanish owners car
not touch the property if it arrives
at Ell Peso in bond, as is frequently
the case If it comes bonded fol
transit through the United States fol