The Washington herald., 1915-04-09
TALES OF HORROR In
MEXICO SENT TO u. S.
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American; C. W. Schultz, American
G. W. Patton. British: Max Otto. Ger
man; b. Series, French: Nine. d
Serres, French; Eduardo Noeme. Otto
man; Jose Vele. Ottoman: Manue
Levy, Ottoman; Juan Ekuland, Swede
IC. f. Cedegren, Swede: Clementene
Garcia. Spanish: +. Noenz. Spanish
Manuel Antono, Spanish; A. Sasian
Spanish: b. Sasian, Spanish; Antolir
Tascon. Spanish; Felix Gonzales, Span
ish; Pedro Calvo, Spanish: Juna villa
Spanish; Juan Parras Spanish; Jesus
Pena. Spanish; Eziquiel Gonzales
Spanish; Francisco Carcoba. Spanish;
Julian Vaquero, SPANISH; EstanislaO
Miguel. Spanish; Conception Franzoni
Spanish; Miguel Franzoni. Spanish
Blanco Garcia. Spanish: Manuel Fer
nandez. Spanish; Rafael Fernandez,
Spanish: Alfonze Neorte, Spanish: Leo
nardo Manchero. Spanish: Fidel Blanco,
Spanish: Manuel Del Orc, Spanish;
Pedro Fernandez. Spanish: Restituto
Garcia. Spanish; Salazar Beneitz, Span
ish, and Marcos Corrales, Spanish.
Details Of these outrages are contained
in affidavits which will be placed today
in the hands of persons in Washington
| to whom the international committee
now looks, instead of the administration,
for solution of the difficulties.
| Washington officials, fearing lest the
| tremendous force of public opinion might
balk the arbitrary policy of noninter-
vention in Mexico, and frantically
hoping that the American people will not
hear or these cases, has fatty refused to
\ make even the most conservatively
| worded protest public.
Secretary Rrx,n.. RanIx
Secretary of State Bryan. under date
Of March u. through the Brazilian leea-
| tion, in charge of American interests in
Mexico. replied to such a request for
| publicity with the following:
Your message has been laid before
the President He does not think it
would contribute to the welfare of
Americans there to give your state
ment to the press. He asked me to as
sure you that we understand and SYM
pathiZe with the situation of the
Americans in Mexico and share their
concern, and that we are doing every
thing in our power to improve the sit
uation. Your attention is called to
the fact that Gen. Carranza in his
dispatch to the President after renew
ing his promise to exert himself to the
utmost to protect lives and property Of
foreigners. indorses the Presidents ad-
vice that Americans temporarily re-
move from Mexico City to some place
where they might be effectively pro-
tected. Gen. Carranza expressed the
same desire in regard to other foreign
ers."
In this message. although acknowl-
edging that conditions had aroused
Washingtons concern. the United
States bluntly refuses to transmit for
American nationals abroad messages
to their relatives and friends in the
United States. although the Americans
explained that:
Owing to rigid censorship of mails
and kilograms, we cannot communicate
these facts to our relatives and friends
in the United States. and we therefore
request that you give this statement to
the press"
Like silent Scpulchre.
Mexico City. when | left there on
March II. was and is still, despite all
reports to the contrary. a silent sepul-
chre. 1t was rotting in stencil. Every
door and window was masked by steel
bound shutters sealed with the crests
of the foreign chancelleries. For six
weeks. from the day of Obregon's en-
try, there had been no water Epi-
denies of typhus and smallpox and
other diseases. bred and nurtured in
filth. were ravaging the populace.
Carranxa lad sent the decomposinS
corpses of smallpox and typhus vic
Tins to Mexico City from Vera Crux
to assist In spreading pestilenee. This
is a matter of proved official record
here at Washington. There was no
food. FoodstuffS had been prohibited
from entering the capital and the sup
plies in the city were being confiscated
at 10 per cent each levy. These were
then shipped to Vera Cruz-an un-
blocked port.
If there had been food there was no
money with which it could have been
bought, for there was no medium of ex-
change. Carranza had nullified all |
Chihuahua paper. when there was not a |
peso of any other paper in the capital |
And the population could not accept |
Carranzista paper for fear that when |
Villa returned he would retaiiate by |
that.
II there had been money and food.
there was not an open store at which it |
could have been purchased Foresighted |
foreign clubs had saved the foreigners
from starvation by having laid in emer-
gency supplies. Rich natives had in a
measure alleviated sufferings by similar
precautions. Peens were eating horse
flesh, cat flesh and rat flesh. Horses
and dogs that fell of starvation in the
avenue were not cold before the starving
masses were upon them. Even the vul-
lures were dying. Their food was being
gathered up by the human scavengers.
Babes were dying at their mothers
breasts because those breasts were afro
phied for lach of nourishment.
Money Was Useless.
Men rich in paper and estates were
walking the streets with their linen
soiled. their clothing impressed and their
Bhoes down at the heels. Their money
was useless. Their laundrymen, their
lailors and their shoemakers had closed
their shops. They had been deprived of
their money. their stores; of everything
which even standardization boasts.
Their priests had been lured to imprison-
ment; their nuns thrown into the streets
A thousand of their professional and
business men had been deported and Inn
prisoned. The masses had been incited
by Obregon to rise and pillage, and the
had been sacked from altar
10 belfry. Their street car service
had been taken away from them. Their
,ars had been stripped and the electric
shipped to Vera Cruz. The
motorists were hiding from the army.
When the starving people, In response
% manifesto. went to the National
Palace TO cash paper given them by the