The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-28

terly attacked IN Congress on April
81 for sending alarming reports
about the situation OF Americans in
Mexico calculated to furnish reasons
for Intervention in Mexico, is an In
diana politician.
During his sixteen years stay in
Vera Cruz he has absorbed some
thing of the Mexican idea OF official
dom and he has for many years been
something of ruler in the Ameri-
can colony in the city. There was
never any gentleness about his rule.
either; whenever he had anything to
say to Americans, he sent the infor-
nation out in the form of orders.
''AIl Americans must positively
leave Vera Cruz at once-W. w.
Canada" was a notice which he
posted up about the city recently,
when he thought the city might be
crowded by refugees.
Anybody who criticises President
Huerta in this office will be immed-
lately removed" is another sign he
once posted in the consulate.
When he was criticised for this
on the grounds that it was a sign
which might be seen in the office of
any Mexican official, he changed the
sign to include criticism of President
Wilson
"Mondell went after Bryan harder
than he went after me-" said Cana
da, after he had read an American
paper containing a report of Mon
del's criticism. You know. some
body's always been after me all my
life
Il was elected a Judge in my own
town three days before / was 21i
years old and I've held political
jobs ever since. Somebody's always
been trying TO get me. but I've al !
ways had little majorities in my ia
vor. You know, back home in In
diana, when l was boy. / discover
ed that you always find the most
clubs under the trees that have the
been thrown at me-"
That the heart of Vera Cruz is
veritable honeycomb has just been
discovered by the American forces
occupying the port Subterranean
passages have been discovered con-
Meeting nearly all the buildings
within several squares of the Plaza.
The blue jackets under Admiral
Fletcher discovered on the first day
that the roofs of all the houses in
block Were SO connected that snipers
might be a considerable distance
away from the spot from which
shots were fired by the time the
sailor boys entered the house.
The discovery of the underground
passages supplementing the inter-
roof communications explained why
the men from the ships were unable
to capture the snipers who fired on
them. During the two days of actual
fighting and several days OF desul-
tory shipping thereafter, the blue
Jackets and marines were frequently
mystified by the complete disappear
ance of the men they knew fired on
ance of the men in some other
house, unarmed. no weapons to be
found and smiling in friendly fash
ion, meanwhile uttering whole vol
legs of amigos
Early in the game it was discov-
cred that there were innumerabie
passages from roof 10 roof, by which
the Mexicans could scurry away
when their sniping point Of vantage
was discovered. Frequently, when
the Americans discovered roof
from which shots We're being fired,
they would storm the house and
search it, Either they would find
the place utterly deserted or they
would find the householder on the
groundfioor not gun in sight.
The discovery OF the tunnels today
shed great deal OF light on the
escape of the snipers and the failure
of the Americans 10 get them with
the goods" II is now obvious that
once the Mexicans knew their places
of concealment were discovered,
they scuttled away over the roofs
and thru the subterranean passages
and were in some totally different
house when the Americans finally
caught them.
The refugee problem is the big
gest with which the American COM
manders, Rear Admiral Badger and
Brig. Gen. Funston now have TO
deal. 1t is like pulling eye teeth to