The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
TO BOTTLE UP CITY
PRESIDENT WILSON ACTS AS
zAPATA BANDITS THREATEN
MEXICAN CAPITAL.
MExICANS SLAY U. S. MINERS
Two Others Seriously Wounded While
Defending Property Near GuadaIa-
Jara-Huerta Protests Alleged Acts
Of United States.

OF united states,
Vera Cruz, May 11.-According to a
report received here, Private Parks,
orderly for Lieut.. Col. Elmore F. Tag.
gart, who disappeared inside of Mexi-
can lines with two of Colonel Tag.
CARTS horses, was put to death by the
Mexicans near Tejera. This informa-
ton, however. was not regarded as
conclusive.
Washington, May 11.-Startling de-
velopments took place in the Mexican
situation Friday. The City of Mexico
was officially reported to be in immi-
nent danger Of capture by the forces
OF Generals Zapata and Villa, aided
by revolving fedora! soldiers OF the
command of General Velasco.
To prevent the city from being loot
ed and the foreigners of all natioRaJj-
ties outraged, among them Louis dan
tin, clerk and interpreter of the
American embassy, President Wilson
consented to the plan of the army to
dispatch heavy reinforcements under
the command of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood to Vera Cruz.
General Funston is impatient at the
prospect of delay. In his dispatch ad-
vising the war department of the sit
uatton, he recommended that the navy
hold Vera Cruz while he proceed with
his command of $500 men to Mexi-
CO City.
He expressed supreme confidence in
his ability to make the trip and cap
ture Huerta's capital. According to
reports, he has equipped trains with
sandbags and machine guns, and was
prepared to start II authorized to
do so.
The president, however, decided
against any such preciptate move
ment. He does not want to capture
and occupy Mexico City Il II can be
avoided.
General Huerta's protest against
the strengthening of the American
tines around Vera Cruz, taken in con-
uection with the reports that General
Mas, the Mexican leader, has troops
far outnumbering the United States
in close proximity to the seaport oc-
cupied by the Americans, has aroused
fears OF an attack that might result
In catastrophe.
That the protest of General Huerta
has not delayed peace plans was dem
however, when the A.-B.-C.
mediators were notified by the Huerta
government that the Mexican delegates
had left Mexico City Saturday for
Niagara Falls via Vera Cruz and Key
West.
General Funston's plea for more
troops has been met with the decision
to dispatch additional forces to Vera
Cruz as quickly as possible.
Preparations are being made for
calling out the National Guard as soon
as the president decides that actual
hostilities are inevitable. Inquiries
have been sent to the governors of
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
asking how quickly their state forces
could mobilize preparatory to board
Ing transports at Atlantic coast ports
for Mexico.
There we're several alarming devel-
opments during Friday In the general
situation. One was report from Rear
Charles J. Badger, command
Ing the American naval force at Vera
Cruz, that two German vessels are en-
route to Puerto Mexico with cargoes
0f ammunition.
Another complication has arisen at
Tampico, where oil wells owned by
British and American companies were |
in danger Of being set on fire. Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambas
sador here. called at the state depart
nent and held a conference with Sec |
retary Bryan in regard to furnishing |
protection for the oil properties at that |
place. The constitutionalists and the |
'ederals have been fighting at Tampico |
or several weeks without a decisive |
result and the efforts of the state de- |
partment to have both sides agree to |
he establishment of a neutral zone to |
protect the oil fields has not been sue
,essful in furnishing the protection
hat the British and American oil in
.erests desire.
San Diego, Cal, May 1.-Two
Americans were killed and two others |
seriously wounded while defending |
the Cinco mine stamp mill near Quad
alajara from an attacking force of |
Mexican federals, according to a tele-
gram received by H. E. Crawford from
British Consul Percy Holmes.
Mediation arrangements are going |
forward in spite Of the serious aspects
Of the military situation, which CON-
nand the greatest attention at the mo-
ment. Justice Lamar of the Supreme |
court and Frederick William lehman,
$4,000 Damages to Worker. |
White Plains, N. Y, May IA jury
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