Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-10-06

pound Tor that port. But he ur,.
70 ms principals in Meyico 10. taik
was the wireless of the No. mere
ana there was his secret cinb 1-'tahga,
no Yankee could read. Migbt ., which
orator handle his messages Tue op'
40 De sure. The represento+,u
inc mexican government which Wv, I've OF
pay handsomely for the transnon was TO
Oh the cargo aboard the Esv, ,a'ioa
might do entirely as e wished '' ahga
90 II transpired that Special 400.
Billy Gard began talking to the Aro '
can battleships in southern saoe 1IS
the Esmiranga was not mucb eu
than halfway across the Atlant,o u,
amused himself writing ness 1a'
much as man passes the time 30
voyage in playing solitaire So -
happened that the United States ao+
eminent had all the details of tba
proach of a shipload of ammunitiH
OF American origin destined to Hn
erta, upon whom the screws NO..
just then being put for INSULTING tbo
Stars and Stripes. So it was evidont
that if this ammunition were auowos
to land, it might be used against Ana
lean troops, who were at any momen,
to be thrown into Mexico.
Yet the United States might not nra.
vent German ship from entering tbo
harbor at Vera Cruz. The only meth.
cd of stopping that ammunition was
to seize the port and custom house and
thereby come into possession Of the
cargo if it were disembarked.
The wireless OF the Esmiranga snnt.
tered out message which, when in.
terpreted in accordance with the CON.
federate cipher and the keyword of
Russian whiskers," conveyed the in.
formation that the vessel was an.
preaching the Mexican coast and that
her intention was to steam under the
very noses of the American dread.
naughts into port. The facts were re.
ported to Washington, where the al.
tentative of selling the port was stern.
ly faced. Orders were given to act.
4 AO ACAS ddJ marines
went, some to glory and some to death.
past that most tragic spot in all Amer
lea, the fortress prison of San Juan de
Ullao; into those streets frequeNtys; bv
the sacred scayenger buzzard of the
AZtecs; beneath the walls of the an.
cient parochial church beside the
Plaza de la Constitution where the
first American boy was destined to die
at the hands of a sniping greaser; into
the gate city that had known Cortez
and Macmillan, and had loaded the
galleons of Spain with more silver and
gold than had ever before been
amassed anywhere in the history of
the world.
But the Esmiranga did not come in
to discharge her ammunition that it
might fall into the hands of the Amer.
leans. Instead, it haunted Mexican
waters for while as creature of IN
rest, uncertain where to land. Finally
it put into Mobile, where its captain
was left at a still greater loss, for the
supposed Mexican gun-runner went
ashore and was seen no more. San.
chez, the Mexican consul, left by train
for his native land. Huerta, in the
madness of his career, extended no in
structions.
The ultimate disposition Of the Es-
miranga's cargo completes the record
of another of those fiascos in the game
of pandering to revolutionists in Lat
in America The outcast cargo
knocked about the Caribbean for
awhile like party dressed up and no
place to go. The constituencies
came into possession of Tampico and
sought way to deal with the captain
of the Esmiranga, who was still I'M
paid for transporting his cargo ana
willing to listen to almost any propo'
sition. But the Constituencies
bought no pigs in pokes and insisted
on an examination of the cargo. PROB
ably they had themselves bought oil
Valentines and knew the nature OF MS
stock in trade. They found a way 10
open some of the boxes and there dis
covered such an array of antique arm
ament that even they scorned its use
Valentines and the Russian who came
to New York to buy for HueTta hau
taken no pains to give that WarliAe
gentleman even the value OF portion
of his money.