The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-25
VERA CRUZ is NOW QUIET; BAND
HELPS TO PACIFY RESIDENTS

esteem for him as a persona
friend. The President also said
he need not worry about the
Americans in Mexico City as they
would be well cared for.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy left Mexico
city last night with all the per.
sonnet of the embassy except
Mr.. Dantin, the interpreter. The
British Minister will look out for
the embassy.
Mr.. Branif, a wealthy English.
man; Capt. Najera of President
Huerta's staff and 100 men of
the Twenty-ninth Regiment &C.
companied Mr.. O'Shaughnessy.
The train was delayed for a long
time at every station on the
route.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy says no
American refugees had left Mexico
city when he took his departure
from the capital. President
Huerta had refused to allow any
to depart, giving as the reason
that while he would be sending
Americans from the capital
Americans would not recipro-
cate by sending Mexican refugees
from Vera Cruz.
Gen. Corona, President Huerta's
chief of staff, accompanied MIR.
O'Shaughnessy on the train which
Capt. Rose, a chief of staff, met
at Tejeira. 1t was then arranged
to make an exchange of refugees.
MIR. O'Shaughnessy says that
before he left Mexico city there
had been many anti-American
demonstrations by irresponsible
persons. These people tore down
the statue of George Washington
which was gift to Mexico by
the American colony during the
celebration of the Mexican CEN
tennial. The statue was dragged
through the mud and left at the
foot of the Juarez monument.
Guns at Embassy Confiscated.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy says the
Mexican Government quietly con-
fiscated the machine guns at the
American Embassy.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy
and the embassy clerks, Parker
and McKenna and Mrs. Parker,
are the guests of Rear Admiral
Fletcher on board the Florida.
They will remain there until they
sail for the United States. When
that will be has not been decided.
The plan to send a train to meet
the American Charge d'Affaires,
the members of the embassy staff
and American refugees, had to be
abandoned.
This course was made necessary
by the discovery that the only
engine in the possession of the
Americans at the railroad yards
is too badly damaged to haul the
train.
. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon
the whereabouts of Mr.. O'Shaugh-
messy were unknown.
The plan was for the train
which left here to meet the
refugee train from Mexico city
mt liberia, six miles from Vera
Cruz. The action of President
Huerta in furnishing a guard of
honor to Charge O'Shaughnessy
and his courtesy toward the
American diplomatic representa-
tive at the capital made it i'm
possible for Rear Admiral
Fletcher to make an attempt to
recover the engines which Gen.
Gustavo Mass, the commander
of the garrison here, had removed
before his flight.
The Admiral had made an
offer to send a train with all resi-
dents of Vera Cruz who desired
to leave here to the capital, but
the lack of engines will probably
prevent this from being done.
Hundreds OF citizens had ex-
pressed desire to leave here as
soon as the transportation fa-
cilities would permit.
The local officials and many of
the citizens refuse to cooperate
with the Americans in restoring
normal conditions in the city, as
they fear retaliation by President
Huerta later on if they assisted