The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-09
Their Protest Says Government
Didn't Protect Them at
Critical Moment.
PRAISE FOREIGN CAPTAINS
British and German Ships Saved
Them From Fury Of Mex
lean MObs.

by refugees from Tampico who wer,
brought to Galveston on the battleshir
Connecticut on April 20.
The protest was prepared and signed
| by them at Galveston and a committee OF
! I'VE arrived In Washington yesterday tc
| lay the matter before the Foreign Rela.
tons Committee.
! The refugees committee Is sed
| OF substantial Americans who resent the
! failure OF the United States to protect
their property at Tamplco and who com
| pain that Americans In that port wer.
oohged TO rely on German and English
! watships to take them away. This is the
| committee that protested yesterday to
Secretary Daniels.
Here Is the delegaton's formal protest
TO the Senate committee in part:
'On the morning OF the 2ist OF the
present month Consul Miller received ad.
vice that the gunboats OF Admiral Mayo's
command had been ordered out OF the port
OF Tampico by the American Government
ana were to leave within one hour. No
ihtlination was given to the American
residents of any danger whatsoever.
while We considered the leaving OF
the gunboats at that time rather eNttaor-
binary. due to the fact that we had al
ways had some gunboat in the harbor for
some months, still no uneasine was felt.
News of the Occupation.
I'm the afternoon rumors became insis.
tent ufon the streets that the American
forces were landing in Vera Cruz. About
z 80 in the afternoon an official bulletin
was posted at the Municipal Palace ad-
vising the MeNicans that the American
forces had landed at Vera Cruz and an
pealing to them TO take UP arms and de-
fend their country.
After dark manifestations were made
i'm the shape OF street parades. princi-
rnnnngpd n IN rnh
men yelling 'Vive Huerta. and death TO
the gringoes" As they proceeded the
numbers increased. Stones were thrown
bricks striking two Americans at the
Southern Hotel The Captain of the
German war vessel advised Gen. cara
gosa commander OF the port that the
mob mus. be dispersed. And the mob
was Immediately dispersed.
Two hours later another mob ap-
peared. filling both streets In front of
the Southern Hotel. having been melted
by incendiary anti-American speeches by
prominent Mexican lawyers and doctors
at the Plaza Libertad.
These speeches were continued in
front of the Southern Hotel for fully
a half hour. when the mob made an at
tack and attempted 10 batter down the
front doors OF the hotel. In which were
assembled more than a hundred Ameri-
can men. women and children. only thirty
OF whom had arms.
There were Mexican soldiers in the
outskirts OF the crowds with their guns
pointed toward the upper stories OF the
hotel and they made no EFFORT whatever
to stop the marauders.
AN insistent demand was made that
the American flag be taken down from
the building. which was refused. When
their shouts of Death TO the GrinYoes"
nd Down with the flag" became more and
more vociferous the jefe de armas had been
notified by telephone of the gathering OF
the mob. but the police detachment that
came 10 disperse the crowd and preserve
order arrived after all the damage was
done Similar hostile demonstrations were
made N other places where Americans
were congregated.
ION the following morning. realizing
the gravity of the situation and our utter
he.plessness. we appealed TO the Ameri-
can Consul to know what was to be done.
He informed us that at the request OF
Admiral Mayo the German and English
gunboats ~ the harbor would receive all
the Americans and transpor, them 10
the American warshps at anchor in the
gulf, distance OF nine miles from Tam
pico.
While going through the streets to the
docks to take refuge on board these for
eign ships Americans were Kissed and their
women insulted by unspeakable names and
epithets by all classes of Mexcans. We
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down nearly loo Amar,car.
Number Of Refugees.
"Ip MI from IN. T,m,ico d,s,r,., ,,,...
wer. over zoo Americans 80 vnn,an
ana children Who hava heen ror"aG -
leave their homes and business Co.. ,h..
lack Of adeouate nro,oc,iou ,ron, orr co..
eminent. Had one American punboa, hesn
allowed TO remain il Is believed there
would not have been any actIys demon
stration or attennt 10 destroy American
propertv. NOTWITHSTANDING the hitter feel
ing toward Americans
There ar, fully 400 American wnn,er
children and men still in the Territory
tributary To Tampico. We fear greatly
that ~ they have not already been muir
dered their lives are I'm grayest danger
1T Is impossible TO estimate the value
of business and pronerty which have h.en
aba ndoned by the $500 Americans who
were forced to leave this mart OF Mexico
to he concentrated IN Texas ports.
Sine Tampico ana the adjacent vicin-