Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-17
STATEMENTS or TRUTH WHICH
WILL NOT SUIT WILSON.

William Randolph Hearst, the
New York Publisher, makes some
plain statements in an article in the
issue of The Washington Post of
January Is, which will not suit
Woodrow Wilson Mr.. Hearst says:
1T is positively true, as Senator
Borah declares, that the State De
partment has purposely, studiously
withheld from the American people
the fearful facts Of Mexican murder
and outrage upon the American citi-
zens.
Even the newspapers have not
been able TO learn one-half the
truth nor to perform their duty to
the public by apprising it Of the
truth.
There are nanny incidents OF the
humiliation Of our people and the
degradation OF our nation that have
never yet been recorded
The relation Of three or four
such incidents will give the people
Of the United States an idea of what
sorrow and suffering and shame
their brothers in Mexico have been
forced to endure.
+hhANA ANttAAH AOANAAt0 anu NhAAACAs
A year ago from last April Ameri-
cans in Tampico and in the sur
rounding country were being hunted
like wild animals by the Mexican re-
Nolutionists, and were being tor
tured and killed when captured
A number of these hunted
Americans took refuge in the hotel
at Tampico. There ithey were sur
rounded by a mob of some 1000
Mexicans, shouting insults at the
Americans, shooting bullets into tho
windows of the hotel and seeking an
opportunity to slaughter these
Americans, as others had been
slaughtered before.
The American battloship which
had been in the harbor of Tampico
had been ordered by tho Democrativ
administration at Washington to put
out to sea, lest in protecting Ameri-
can lives they should create some
complications with the Mexican gov
ernment--the murder Of Americans
apparently not being considered q
complication worth considering
Germans Rescue Americans.
In the harbor of Tampico, how
ever, was q German gunboat, the
Dresden, which was there to protect
German citizens. This German gun
boat had NOT been ordered by its
government to desert its post and it's
people. On the contrary, it had
been ordered to remain at all
hazards and to perform It's full du-
ty to its citizens and to civilization,
regardless of complications.
When the captain of the German
gutboat heard that this body OF
Americans in the hotel at Tampico
was in dire distress and imminent
danger he sent launch ashore with
an officer and about twenty men.
The officer marched his men up
to the hotel and Addressed the Mex
leans He said that the German
man-o war Dresden was in the Tam
pico harbon with its guns trained
upon the city. and at a given signal
would open fire
He said that il the Americans
within the hotel were not allowed to
proceed under his care, without in
jury and without INSULT, he would
give the signal and the mob could
take the consequences.
Mob Feared TO Defy Germans.
The mob Gained itself and fell
back. The Americans were escorted
in safety and silence to the German
launch and taken on board the Ores-
den.
'fhe Mexicans had no respect for
Americans, for the American flag or
the American government.
But they knew better than to de-
fy the Germans. and so these Ameri-
cans, whom their own country had
deserted, were rescued by the Dres-
den.
There was another even more hui
initiating instance Of the contempt
into which our country has fallen ia
the same harbor at Tampico at an
other time
"A wealthy and very eminent and
able American was conducting a vast
enterprise in the neighborhood Of
Tampico and employing many Amer
leans there.
AS these Americans were IN con-
stant danger, this American en-
ploycr secured large yacht and
held IL in Tampico harbor, IN readi-
ness to rescue his employees whom
the danger became imminent
The reyolutionists ono day descend
cd upon the headquarters of this
Americans enterprise, plundored the
I headquarters. and then began to rob
and murder the American employees.
Fired on United States Yacht.
Those who escaped fled to Tam
pico Harbor and boarded the yacht
( which lay in waiting for them.
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