The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-09
TELLS or MEXICAN
INSULTS TO FLAG
Long Missing Correspondent
Had Awful Experience
HELD 4 CAPTIVE FOR WEEKS

Limit, and His Personality Alone Hs
Kept Him In Office. Says Paul Davis
No Safety For Foreigners Unlss
Msxicsns Are Punished.
Paul Davis. correspondent OF thu
Brooklyn Eagle. who went to Mexico
ut the invitation OF President Huerti
and whose fate after the fall OF Tor
Eeon was In doubt for several weeks
In dispatch 10 his newspaper says:
II reached Vera Cruz after series
OF experiences. almost every one OF
which gave me good reason to fear
that my time was up and that ! would
never be able TO grasp friendly hand
or gaze again upon the flag of my coun.
try noniing from a pole have seen
that dug subjected to the grossest In
suit aud those who claimed its protec-
ton threatened with death and treated
with the greatest cruelty.
II have seen the American consuiates
sacked aud the safes containing state
documents and department codes rificd
or their contents. The consuls them
selves were imprisoned and suffered
fortunes. with the death threats OF the
Mexican officials hanging over them
constantly.
ITO sum the whole matter up. the
Mexicans have sown crop that will
mean a bitter harvest for them in the
not far distant future"
Held Captive In euardhouse.
On April Mr.. Davis was taken from
train at IIipollto. water tank town
in the middle of wild desert He was
detained there In guardhouse for az.
teen days until the shattered federal
forces passed through In their mad
flight 20 Saltiio. He says;
Tho picture Of that defeated and
detected mob--for II seemed like moth
ing else TO me-is almost beyond de-
scription Think of 10000 panic strick-
en- soldiers. many of them badly
wounded and all OF them tired to the
point Of exhaustion hobbling along.
suffering agony ut every step. their
sufferings aggravated by the pangs OF
thirst that could not be quenchedl
"ln the despairlng crowd were many
women. some Of them bearing evidence
thar they had been wounded and some
OF them carrying young babies in their
arms
Davis reached saltlllo April 81. and
then General Mas. In response to
the demands OF an excited mob. gave
an order TO arrest all the Americans in
the place. including the consul and his (
secretary. claiming that be did this to /
protect them These. with ten others. I
including Davis. were taken to. the (
penitentiary. placed in underground (
dungeons and had no food for twenty
hours.
News OF their plight reached the
British consul. who went TO the gov
ernor and obtained permission TO send
food aud blankets TO them. Davis
managed to get a note TO the governor
IN which he stated that he should be
released. ms he had come to Mexico at
the invitation OF fuerta. and he, more.
over. was desperately III. He was re-
leased that night
The temper OF the mobs throughout
the country Is AT fever heat against
everything American. says the news
paper man
Huerta's Dominating Personality.
The government is proceeding with
great caution. as the officials seem to
'ear that a change may come at any
Huerta's worst enemy must admire
his remarkable grit
The presidency fell into his lap like
ripe apple from a tree. and he has
'iayed the game to the limit He has
overlooked no trick that seemed TO be
or his own advantage. A weaker man
would have been assassinated long ago.
{ least put In jail but Huerta's per
onallty has kept him In power and
vii continue 20 do so 10 the last ditch
Extreme measures have been taken
gniHst the possible invasion of Mex.
70 City, no less than six carloads OF
ynamite have been placed In the eta.
els. and IL has also been planned to
LIANT mines all about the city. Blan,
net. as during the Madero revolution.
Odds the key TO the situation. The
wenty ninth regiment and the Palace
yards the pick OF the army
t his beck aud call
All Americans agree that II the In
ats to American citizens are not pun
he'd the country will become unln-
abitable for foreign residents, In rue
,pital every one seems apathetic. the |
tizens being calloused to all sorts OF
Dlitical strategies.r
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