Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-20
]. r. METCALF
 IS REFUGEE
 FROM SOUTH
We'll Known Mining Man, Form
 erB From Bisbee, Tells of ln-
 suits to the U. s. Flag in the Interior of Mexico
Constant and Unmitigated h.
 suits Heaped on Everything
 American, Declares the Mining Man Who Recently Returned.

That there is only one resolution to the Mexican problem, and that is armed intervention and the re-estab- lishment of peace in the republic oi Mexico by the United States or some other nation, is the opinion of John F. Metcalf Metcalf is well known mining man and for the past four years has resided in Mexico. He has just arrived in Bisbee, his former home from New Orleans where he landed some days ago on the Esper- anza from the war-Hdden republic.
 Metcalf, until he was forced to leave the republic, was the mine superin- tendent for the Proyedencia Mining Company at Guanajuato Mexico. Some time ago he was transferred in- to the city of GuanaJuato, where he was placed in charge of the work in the mill at night He left the city of Bisbee about nine years ago and for the past four years has been g resi- dent of Mexico.
 The story as told by Metcalf, of the indlgnlties heapea upon the flag of the limited States Of America upon Amer ican citizens. and upon everything American by the parusans and sup porters of Victoriano Huerta, is be- yond belief
 ] No indignity has been too great, no blasphemy has been too putrid, 10 be heaped upon the emblem of the United States or its citizens residing in Mex ico. The property of the Americans . is considered the legitimate prey of . the Mexican federalists, while the rights of the English and the English residents, themselves, are paraded through the streets of Mexican cities on the shoulders of the peons, in glori- 1 fication Of the English flag
 On the other hand the ienominies committed against the flag of the United States in every quarter of the section dominated by Huerta are Of the rankest character The coats of arms in the various consulates of the United States, the Stars and Stripes surrounding these emblems, have in practically every instance gone into the streets, the coats of arms broken into bits, and the flags torn into strips
 One of the most outrageous oppro. briums offered the United States and the American citizens of Mexico oc cured some days after the occupa
 ton of Vera Cruz by the marines, ac cording to Metcalf
 In 1910 the American citizens in
 Mexico City gave to the city a beaut
 full monument of George Washington
 This monument was placed in one ol
 the parks of the capital During tho
 stress there a crowd Of men under the
 command of George Huerta a son O.
 the dictator, secured two automobiles
 went to the park where the statue
 stood and tore it down with ropes
 They then dragged the monumen
 through the streets of Che city, fac'
 downward. to another park In thii
 park there Is a statue of an old Aztec
 chief who preceded Montezuma. The!
 placed the monument of Washington face downward in front of the statue of the Aztec The marble was agaiI
 attached to the automobile snd hauled
 down the main avenue of the city t' the Castle of Chaupaultepec. Th' final resting place of the statue va in the pest hole a garbage dump ii another section of the city.
 The conditions in Mexico generally
 according to Metcalf are terrible. Th' country is in a general turmoil ana the lives of the foreign residents, par , ticularly the Americans, are in con stant jeopardy
 The mining man states that pracu , cally every American from the Gusns , juato district has been obliged to fi for their lives The government ha , confiscated several of the propertie , there and is working them.
 In order to get out of Mexico Met calf and the other refugees were ot , uged to take the Mexican CentTa i, from Guanatuoto to Meuco City i, Thore it was found thg rail e0mmun i, cation bstwe1n thp capital and Yer D Cruz vas out and thgy had to tax the Mexicana line to station sout