Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-04-03
City of Mexico and ManzaniIio
Still Terrorized Despite
American Warnings.
FOREIGNERS READY TO LEAVE
They Ask U. S. State Department for
Transportation to the Coast
Europeans Aroused.

Washington, March 17.-Conditions
in the City of Mexico as well as Man
zanillo continue to give officials con-
Germ.
Apparently the re-occupation of the
capital by the Zapata forces has not
brought the expected relief. or else
Americans have tired of their isola-
ton and the stagnation which their
business has experienced, for large
number of them, with other foreigners,
asked the State Department today,
through the Brazilian minister, to OBJ
tain transportation for them to Vera
Cruz.
Urgent representations were made
to General Carranza concerning his
troops at Manzanillo, whose activities
have been causing Americans and for
eigners much apprehension. The
American consul was instructed to
keep in close touch with the comman-
der of the cruiser Cleveland should
foreigners become further endangered
Fire on U. S. Boat.
Galveston, Tex, March 1.-THE ten
der of the United States battleship
Delaware was fired upon by Shippers
at Vera Cruz March 10, according to
reports brought here today by passen-
gers on the Norwegian steamship City
of Tampico. The tender went into
the harbor for Captain Rogers of the
Delaware and was fired upon while in
bound and again while returning to
the warship- No one was injured.
Foreign Nations Demand Action.
Washington, March 16.-Diplomat-
iGf vxrl NV ir7cf Of
ernments. have been discussing Mex
eminent, interpret the latest develop
passive observation to one of ener-
getic insistence on the protection of
foreign interests.
With the situation at Progreso APP
psrently clearing up, ,disposing of the
threatened cutting off of the sisal
hemp supply needed for harvesting
the. American grain crop, the Washing
ton government tonight was confront
ed with troublous condition of af-
fairs at Manzanillo.
The British consul there has appeal
ed through the British embassy here
for British man-of-war. He says the
German consul joins him in the re-
quest, as the condition of foreigners
is '.unbearable" and no American men
of-war are nearby. This message was
transmitted for the British consul by
wireless through Admiral Howard of
the Pacific fleet, who at the same time
took up the situation with the Navy
Department
The American cruiser Cleveland has
arrived at Manzanillo to look after for
eign interests, making unnecessary, it
is believed, the dispatch of any British
ships
The CarranZa authorities at Manzan-
ilio have been confiscating property,
the food situation is bad and foreign
ers are generally apprehensive.
A new Mexican confidential agen-
cy' was set up in Washington today
to rival the Carranza and Villa esta b.
lishments and bring prominently be-
fore the American government an ele-
ment in the complicated situation be-
low the Rio Grande, to which as yet
scant attention has been paid. Jose
Vasconcelos is in charge, and he rep
resents Eulalio Gutierrez, who is said
to be at the head of an Independent
movement in Central Mexico.
Anarchy Spreading.
Washington, March 15.-While con-
ditions in the City of Mexico have i'm
proved, the food and water supply be-
ing rep1enished and the capital placed
in order once more by the Villa-Zapata
convention government. situations
fraught with difficulties for the United
States have arisen at the port of Pro-
gresso, on the Atlantic coast of Mexi-
CO, and at Manzanillo, on the Pacific
side.
Progresso, the port from which is
shipped 80 per cent of the sisal hemp
required for binding the wheat crop of
the United States, has been ordered
closed to foreign commerce by General
Carranza. He has dispatched the gun
boat Zaragoza and is preparing to send
the armored tug Ocampo to enforce
his blockade order. The cruiser Des
Moines is at Progresso under orders
from the Navy Department to see that
there is no interference with American
commerce, as, in accordance with in
ternationaf precedent, the right of a
de facto government to close a port
not in its possession is not recognized
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