The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-04-23
ORDERLY PUT IN JAIL.
Indignities Have Been Heaped Upon
United States.

aShlngtOn, April Id he arrest
of an orderly who went ashore at
Vera Cruz to obtain mail for the Am
erican fleet, the interception of dis
patches to Charge O'Shaughnessy,
the censorship over official dispatches
and repeated offenses against the
rights and dignity of the United
States" were given to-day as some
of the causes of the dispatch Of the
Atlantic fleet to Mexico in an official
statement representing the admins
tration views.
The following official statement
was issued to-day as representing
the views of President Wilson and
the administrations:
In discussions in official circles
in Washington Of the present Mexi-
can situation the following points
have been very much dwelt upon. 1t
has been pointed out that, in con-
sidering the present somewhat deli
cate situation in Mexico, the un-
pleasant incident at Tampico must
not be thought of alone. For some
time past the defacto government OF
Mexico has seemed to think mere
apologies sufficient when the rights
of American citizens and the dignity
of the government of the United
States were involved, and has ap-
parently made no attempt at either
reparation or the effective correction
of the serious derelictions of its civil
and military officers.
Immediately after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from one of the
ships of the United States in the har-
Dor of Vera Cruz who had been sent
ashore to the postoffice for the ship S
mail and who was in uniform and
who had the official mail bag on his
back, was arrested and put into jail
BY the local authorities. He was sub
seuuently released and a nominal
punishment inflicted upon the officer
who had arrested him, but it was
significant that an orderly from the
fleet of the United States was picked
out from the many persons constantly
going ashore on various errands from
the various ships in the harbor rep
resenting several nations.
Most serious of all, the officials
in charge of the telegraph Office at
Mexico City presumed to withhold AN
official dispatch of the government
of the United States to its embassy
at Mexico City until it should have
been sent to the censor and his per-
mission received to deliver it and
gave the dispatch into the hands OF
the charge d'affaires of the United
States only upon his personal and
emphatic demand, he having, in the
meantime, learned through other
channels that a dispatch had been
sent him which he had not received.
'.It cannot but strike any one who
has watched the course of events in
Mexico as significant that untoWard
incidents such as these have not oc-
CURED in any case where represen-
tatives of the United States. and that
there has been no occasion for other
governments to call attention to such
matters or to ask for apologies.
These repeated offenses against
the rights and dignity of the United
States, offenses not duplicated with
regard to the representatives of 9TH
er governments, have necessarily
made the impression that the govern
ment of the United States was singled
out for manifestations of i'll will and
contempt.
The authorities of the State de-
partment are confident that when the
seriousness and the cumulative effect
of these incidents is made evident to
the government of Mexico that the
government will see the propriety
and necessity of giving such evil
dences of it's desire to repudiate and
correct these things as will be not
only satisfactory to the government
of the United States, but also an evl-
dence to the rest Of the world as an
entire change of attitude, There can
be no loss to the dignity of the de
facto government in Mexico in rec
ognizing in the fullest> degree the
claims of a great sovereign govern
nlent to its respect.
DIVORCE By WIRELESS.
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