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


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William Randolph Hearst, the
New York Publisher, makes some
plain statements In an article in the
issue Of The Washington Post oil
January 10, 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 eiti-
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.
Americans Tortured and Killed.
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-
rolutionists, and were being tor
/ tured and killed when captured.
A number of these hunted
/ Americans took refuge in the hotel
at Tampico. retthey were sur
rounded by a mob of some 1000
Mexicans, shouting insults at the
( Americans, shooting bullets into the
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 a 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
J people. On the contrary, it had
been ordered to remain at all
hazards and to perform its 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 a launch ashore with
I 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
1 pico harbon with its guns trained
upon the city, and at given signal
would open fire.
He said that il the Americans
1 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 Tho Americans were escorted
in safety and silence to the German
launch and taken on board the Dres-
den
rho Mexicans had no respect for
Americans, for the American flag Or
the American government.
But they knew better than to de-
i fy tho 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 in
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
Iampico and employing many Amor
leans there.
As these Americans were in CON
stant danger, this American em-
ployer secured a large yacht and
held ii in Tampico harbor, IN readi-
ness to rescue his employees when
the danger became imminent
The revolutionists one day descend
cd upon the headquarters of this
1 Americans enterprise, Dlundered tho
headquarters, and then began to rob
and murder the American employees.
Fired on United States Yacht.
Those who escaped fled to Tam
Dico Harbor and boarded the yacht
which lay in waiting for them.
The Mexican robbers and revolu-
tionists followed and stood on the
shore firing at tho yacht
Tho yacht pulled up its anchor
and started 10 leave tho harbor.
A Mexican gunboat then came up
alongside, and the captain of the
gunboat announced that il the yacht
moved another foot, he would blow
IL out Of the water.
SO the yacht lay, with its Amer
leans on board being shot at by the
Mexicans on shore, and reyiled and
jeered by tho Mexicans on the gum
boat alongside.
Fortunately the yacht had a
| wireless equipment, and it sent out
a call for help.
Saved BY the British Flag.