Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-07

%Ao'SS, dllHOuSH AllS AllSll llNdllo CA plain that;
 Owing to rigid censorship of mails and telegrams we cannot communi- cate these facts to our relatives and friends in the United States and we therefore request that you give this statement to the press"
 Wanton Assassination of McManus.
 In the interim between the Ameri- cans message being sent to Washing ton and reply refusing to make it public being received, J. B. McManus was wilfully assassinated, his body as it lay under the Brazilian and Red Cross flags was spat upon and cursed, the American flag over his home was torn to shreds, the Brazilian seals protecting his property were broken, and his home was footed.
 Then the Americans in Mexico with the other foreigners resolved that if Washington did not protect them they would be compelled to protect them selves. And they resolvcd-all for eigners-to arm and defend them selves.
 In this message to Washington they demanded full rcparation for this new outrage against American life and property and the flag of the United States and said that in view of the:
 Further evidence of the lack of re- spect which the various revolutionary forces hold for foreign life and prop crty as demonstrated by incidents re- ported to Washington Ill the past, Americans feel 1t incumbent upon them to point out existing conditions of lack of law and order are such that if the wilful murder of foreigners and destruction of their property continue there will be no alternative but for those Americans and other foreigners still in the republic of Mexico to de- fend themselves by all means at their disposal"
 Recent wrongs suffered by the for cigners had become so intolerablc that they justified even the risk of life on the part of the alien residents of Mexico City to effect reparation and for the first time the foreign colonies organized in public effort to effect that reparation.
 Armed hordes had robbed them at the point of bayonets in the high ways, had ignored the foreign flags over the doors of their homes and assaulted the homes with shot until the doors gave way and the route to loot and wanton destruction was open, had tortured them and robbed them and had, while holding the men pris- oncrs, forced them to witness their women subjected at the hands of tll- thy brutes to the one unforgivable crime.
 The suburban mansion of one of the most prominent and influential foreigners, E. Serres, a French citi- zen, was stormed by brutal band of Zapatistas and while Scrres was bound hand and foot with ropes and taunted and prodded with bayoncts, he was compelled on threat of death to witness his beautiful wife physic- ally violated twcnty-cight times by twenty-five degenerates.
 Story of Serres Outrage.
 Serrcs tclsl his own story i'll the following affidavit:
 q. E. Scrrcs, French citizen, be- ing first duly sworn, do dcpose and say: That 1 make the following vol untary statement at the request of International Committee, which 1 am advised is made up of representatives of seventeen foreign colonies residing in Mexico City. and for the purpose, I am told, of assisting in making the actual conditions in Mexico known to the outside world.
 My homo is at 3a Calle Hidalgo No. 16, Coyoacan, Mexico, D. r. Ali about II o'clock on the night of March 9, 1915, my wife and l had just gone to bed when a band of Za- patistas entered the house. having ! fired a shot into the lock of the out | side door and breaking it open. They took as a prctcxt that we had hidden a Carranzista soldier. and from the ! moment of entering the house began opening wardrobcs. trunks, etc, and taking away everything of value. Aside from clothing they took l,lO0 pesos in bills and then withdrew. However. they came back a few min utcs later. They then dragged me into the garden in my underclothcs, me meanwhile with their rifles. and there tied me up securely. After which all of thcm-approXi- matcly twcnty-hvc-physically violat' cd my wife after which they left me. asking me if |. were pleased with their action. I made no answer and