The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-19
has had his last chance.

Huerta has had his last chance.
While the text of Huerta's message
today, and the Presidents reply, were
not made public, it became knoHl
that Huerta contended that all the
| loffenses for which the United States
asks apology have been apologize1 for,
and that 'he demurs at anything fur
| ther"
Officials pointed out that the naval
forces at Vera Cruz and Tampico were
sufficient to carry out the President S
plans without waiting for the arrival
of Rear Admiral Badgers fleet.
Hancock Reaches Tampico.
The transport Hancock already has
arrived at Tampico with 500 marines,
the battleships Virginia, Connecticut
and Minnesota and the cruisers Des
Moines, Dolphin and San Francisco
also are there. The scout cruiser
Chester and the transport Buffalo are
al"0 at Tampico with the collier Cy-
cops.
At Vera Cruz are the battleships
Florida and Utah and the transport
Prairie, the latter having a large
complement of marines. Rear Admir-
al Mayo commands the ships at Tam
pico and Rear Admiral Fletcher com
mands at Vera Cruz. When Rear Ad-
miral Badger arrives he will take SUI
preme command.
The flagship Arkansas and other
ships Of Admiral Badgers fleet were
off Key West last night making about
eleven and a half knots, and at that
rate would reach Tampico by Tues
day. Orders from Washington, how
ever, putting the new fast ships I'M
Ider forced draught, would bring them
into Tampico on Monday prepared
for action if President Wilson has to
lay the situation hefore Congress.
Huerta's Final Defiance.
Huerta's final defiance came as a
distinct surprise to some officials and
confirmed the suspicion of others
who never have believed he was sin
cere in his promise to Charge o.
Shaugnessy last Tuesday In some
circles there was a conviction that
Huerta, beset with internal troubles
and menaced by the continuing ad-
vance of his enemies from the north,
was bent on making trouble with the
| United States in the hope of uniting
the warning Mexican factions in a
common cause Officials here, how.
ever, did not expect that the consti-
tutionalists, with whom the United
States has no quarrel, would be con-
cerned in the dispute with Huerta.
Plan of Action Unknown
The President has not made known
what plan of action he will lay before
| Congress. But discussion up to this
| time has indicated the next decisive
step would be one of those measures,
described by international authorities
as measures short of war; known as
| lreprisal or pacific blockade.
The pacific blockade has not been
favorably regarded in executive quar-
ters, for while it would put a restraint
on the ships Of Mexico it would not
assure a stop in the shipping of for
eign powers dealing with Mexico. Re-
prisal, therefore. has appeared to fur
nish the method usual in redressing
an offense such as the Tampico af-
| fair,
Will Support President
| Senators, Republicans and Demo
Gratis alike, expressed confidence that
| Congress would promptly support the
President in any emergency
Senators Smoot, Sutherland and
Cummings, Republicans, asserted Con.
gress would be quick to act if Huer.
ia should fail to salute the America I
colors.