The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-14
90, 600 Troops NeededfO
Take Mexico city Says
Mccormick on His Return

| Mtull MCCORMICK or the chicago
! Tribune, who was arrested and thrown
| into Jail in Mexico city. together Will
| Richard Harding Davis, Whiffen. the
| Associated Press correspondent: Fred
erick Palmer and Sutton, the Wash
ington photographer, has written from
Vera Cruz an interesting account for
Harpers Weekly of his impressions
and adventures during his lin again
out again" experiences while trying 10
get the real news" Of the Mexican
Huerta situation. Mr.. Mccormick says:
one morning Richard Harding Da-
Wis, Frederick Palmer and | left Vera
cruz by train for the gap i'm the rail-
way where the Mexicans cut the track
April %. 1t is not surprising that we
were stopped 1t is surprising that
two of us got to Mexico City and back
again with so little delay.
Palmer has the appearance of an
American man of letters. Davis says
the farther we advanced into the in
terror the more | booked like shaver
Uncle Sam. Davis himself looked to
me like mixture of John Drew and
Theodore Roosevelt shaken well be-
fore using. lie and l. anyway, seemed
selected for defeat. Adam WCimar a
German american employed by the
Banco National, who started with us
from Vera Cruz, did what he could to
help us. Davis had letters from the
Brazilian consul to his minister i'm
Mexico city. l had a personal letter
from the French consul Introducing
Davis and me to Gen Mas, while in
addition | had certificate which
showed that | represented great
English newspaper. our credentials
were not much, but enough, but Pal
mer had only a viS' ting card
Like Comic Opera Adventure.
OFF to the Jail we marched little
sandalcd soldiers shutting along ON
either side. They drove "A crowd of
men and women out of the Jail court
into the Jail and asked us for our pa
pers. They read the papers and then
offered chair first To Palmer. not TO
sit on, but to facilitate the removal of
dispatches. They searched us, but
politely refused to give up my letter TO
Gen. Mas, which saved us. | unlim-
bered my Spanish. They put us in
nice cell and sent for another officer
From the gap we rode by rail to
Paso el Macho, where we stopped for
luncheon. 1t was very not and the
platform was packed with waiting
Mexican refugees from Vera Cruz.
suddenly | saw Davis going through
the crowd with a shabby little officer
at his elbow. AS u started To his res
cue another officer still shabbier, tap-
ped ne on the arm and invited me to
follow him. | did. AS the guard
closed around us we turned TO Welcomo
Palmcr's solemn accession to orr
ranks.
Meanwhile a lieutenant who looked
like. Il doorkecper in movie" show
put sentinel over each of us and
ostcntatiously loaded his gun. Davis
SAID something by way of coincidence.
'Silencio!" said his sentinel.
SO we sat, cross, hot and mum
above all, mum. Presently came a
lieutenant who could speak French. /
pniimbered that language, too. and out
we were sent without guard. Gen.
Mas was very civil. lie did not ask
Davis or me about our nationality, but
Palmer's visiting card would not do.
lie had to go back to Vera Cruz.
"A drunken brakeman said he was
death on Americans, but If we were
English we could give him a few CEN
taVos Tor beer. At Orizaba we spent
a comfortable night in hotel kept by
frenchman. The next day we left
Tor Mexico City 1t was not until we
were leaving the railroad station for
our hotel i'm the capital that anything
befell u.s. Then "A young man with the
manners OF hotel runner stopped us.
We discovered that he was a detective.
Accompanied by this man and half n
dozen of his colleagues, we went TO
the office of the inspector of police.