Evening star., 1915-06-17
AMERICANS IN SONORA
SAID TO BE IMPERILED
Admiral Howard, Commanding Ex-
pedition. Ordered to Proceed
to Guaymas.
FOREIGNERS ARE THREATENED
State Department Advices Say situa-
ton Is Extreme, Though Gov. May
torena Says q. s. Troops
Are Unnecessary.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, June IL
With three companies, totaling
3co men, of the 4th Regiment
United States Marine Corps
aboard, the flagship Colorado
Admiral Howard commanding
sailed from San Diego at o:3s
am. today for the Lower Cali
fornia coast.
Protection of Americans in the
Yaqui valley is the object of the
expedition.
Recent advices are that Ameri-
can colonists at Esperanza, some
800 miles below the border, after
standing off one attack of Yaqui
Indians, are hemmed in and
threatened by another.
Orders for the embarking OF
the marines were received by Col.
Joseph H. Pendleton, command
: ing the 4th Regiment, last night,
and a battery of four rapid-fre
field guns and two automatic
guns were sent aboard the Colo
1ado.
The marines are under the COM
mand OF Maj. w. N. McKelvy.
The Colorado's crew numbers
85o officers and men.
Admiral Howard stated that
the Colorado would maintain a
speed of fourteen knots an hour
on the voyage south, and is ex-
pected to arrive at Guaymas
about noon next Sunday.
Admiral Howard, commanding
the Pacific fleet, was under orders
today to proceed Immediately to
Guaymas, on the western coast
OF Mexico, with 800 bluejackets
and 800 marines, and to dispatch
this force twenty miles inland, If
necessary, to protect Americans
menaced by the Yaqui Indians
The Indians had threatened to
annihilate all foreigners.
Says Troops Are Not Needed.
Gov. Maytorena of the state oi
Sonora today advised the United
States that it would be unneces-
sary to land any of Admiral How
ards forces to rescue or protec,
the American colonists as he
would furnish troops for the pur,
pose Admiral Howard's orders
will remain unchanged, however
and he will be expected to &C,
with wide discretion in an,
emergency.
Orders to Admiral Howard to pro.
ceed to Guaymas were sent by tn.
Navy Department following con
ference between Navy and State De.
partInent officials State Depar rtrne NJ
advices said that the Indians had de.
clared war on Germany, Mexico ant
the United States
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt said
the admiral had wide discretionar,
powers 10 land an expedition If neces
sary to rescue Americans who wan
TO come out of the region of Indiar
depredations
American colonists IN the YaouI val
icy will determine for themselves IL the,
wish 70 leave the region OF Indian depre.
dau"ns- Instructions TO Admiral How.
ard are To give refugees asylum II the,
ask II; TO land forces for rescue IL nee.
essary, but not TO take any territory
The admiral today reported condition,
Or he west coast of Mexico unchanged
Threaten All Foreigners.
Although no deaths had been report
ed since the uprising several week,
ago. the Yaquis have threatened t,
annihilate foreigners, and June the,
swept through the valley destroyin,
crops and property.
state Department advices within TIN
last few days are in effect that the sit
uatiOn is extremely threatening 70
Americans. and il was deemed adj
vIsable TO reinforce the cruisers CIeye
land and New Orleans now at Quay
mas
Their declaration of war on Ger
many. the advices said, was because
German colonist. crack rife shot, de
!, Tended his home in the last YaQui raj
with remarkable success and much dis
RSter to the raiders.