The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-21
HEMP COVERS
MAKE APPEAL
WANT UNITED STATES TO
TAKE ACTION IN MEX
ICAN TROUBLE
LARGE PORTION OF
CROP THREATENED
Committee Probably VIII Dis
cuss Situation With Secretary
Bryan Monday
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WASHINGTON, March 20.--A
committee of hemp growers from
| Iucatan, Mexico, and representatives
| Of American hemp importers laid
before the State department today
an appeal for action by the United
States that would terminate the revo-
lutionary troubles between General
Alvarado, the Carranza governor OF
Yucatan. and an opposing faction. The
committee probably will discuss the
situation with Secretary Bryan next
Monday.
The committee said the revolution
! which resulted IN the recent blockade
! OF Progreso by CarranZa threatened
the destruction of large portion of
the crop from which most of the har-
vest binding twine used in the United
States is made. The people OF Yucca
tan, they asserted, did not wish to
take part In the revolution but were
afraid to disobey orders given them
by the revoluiionists.
/ Already some sisal. 1t was said, had
! been burned. at least two plantations
having been destroyed. Other reports
received here said sisal had been
burned at Merida, Progreso. and
other places to prevent IL from falling
y
| Nkding revenue.
NJ. j. Smith, hemp importer, told
officials 1, would not be more than a
few weeks before the farmers of the
country felt the shortage in harvest
! twine.
The Mexican gunboat Zaragosa at
| Progreso has not interfered with the
| movement o. vessels. il was said
An official message Said General
Alyarado entered Merida yesterday
day, the enemy fleeing at his ap-
proach. Quiet prevailed at Merida and
at Progreso.
Confirmation of the defeat of the
CarranZa forces at San Carlos was
given in. official dispatches.
! A statement issued tonight by the
l'convention agency here reported the
/ capture of Camargo. u border city
| between Nuevo Laredo and Matamo-
res, with slight resistance, and added
that the defeated Carranza troops
continued their flight toward Mata-
moros with convention troops in hot
| pursuit.
Details of recent fighting about
Monterey reached the agency today in
a letter from General Felipe An
geles, commander at Monterey A
large Carranzista force, marching to
attack Monterey. were surprised near
Paredon and defeated with heavy
losses, the statement says On the
following day another Carranzista
force. attempting to attack the city
from the north and east was repulsed
after severe artillery fire Perfect
order now prevails throughout the
Monterey section, General Angeles
added.
| Charles w. Douglas. Carranza's
! legal representative here. re,,'rned to-
day from visit TO Vera CRU
General Carranza told me-" said
MIR Douglas. that the two nations
nearest his heart were Spain and the
United States. Spain was his native
land. he said. and he locked upon the
United States as the most advanced
nation In the world
While Mr.. Douglas would not dis
| cuss the situation In Yucatan, 1t was
learned that General .Carranza wished
20 avoid actual warfare there as his
supporters in the State feared that II
the Indians who work in the hemp
fields We're armed an uprising nigh.
result later.