Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-05
SENDS DESTROYERS
SOUTH TOBE READY
FORMEX|CAN DUTY
Secretary Daniels Orders
Division From New York
to Key West.
.FL0TILLA IN COMMAND
OF CAPT. BYRON LONG
Gets Instructions at Conference
Here-Action Taken at State
Departments Request.

Departments Request.
NEW YORK. May 5.-sfx destroy
ers, accompanied by the tender
Black Hawk, left their anchorage
with the Atlantic feet In the Hud-
SON river Mt Pm. today and sail
ed for Key West for possible duty
in Mexican waters.
Secretary Daniels today ordered a
division Of destroyers. now at New
York with the Atlantic fleet. to sail
Immediately for Key West. where they
will be held for possible duty in Mexi-
can waters.
The destroyers are the Isherwood,
Case. Lardner, Putnam. Dale and Reid.
The flotilla is commanded by Capt.
Byron Long, on the tender Black Hawk.
which will accompany the fotilla.
Capt. Long was in conference with
Secretary Daniels here last night. and
left Immediately afterward for New
York to get his ships ready to sail
today.
The Secretary said today that Capt.
Long had been given full instructions
as to the policy to be pursued in the
event it becomes. necessary to send
the destroyers to Mexican ports.
Due at Key West Tomorrow.
The vessels should reach Key West
by tomorrow night or Friday, and the
run from there to Tampico or Vera
Cruz would be a matter of only q
few hours
The State Department announced
Monday that 1t had asked the Navy
Department to- send destfOyers to
those two Mexican ports The re-
quest was based on reports received
sired to rave ships on hand ito take
or American. citixens il that should
become necessary.
Thus far no reports Of any serious
disturbances in the Mexican ports
have reached the government. but
those places.
At the State Department today it
was said that reports thus far re-
ceived had not indicated that the lives
of any American citizens had been
endangered anywhere in Mexico as a
result Of the revolution.
Carransa Using AirDlanes.
Apparently unable to get under way
any offensive military expedition
a gainst the revolutionists. President
Carranxa has begun using airplanes
to harass rebel-held towns in the
Of the Mexican capital.
to advices to revolutionary
agents here. Cuernavaca, capital OF
Morelos, and Cuautla. in the same
state, are two of the points that have
been smart1y bombed. the reports
stated. The information through Of
ficial channels yesterday that Pablo
Gonzales. formerly an ardent sup
porter of Carranza, had entered the
at the head of detach-
ment Of revolving federal troops. also
was contained in the rebel advices.
Further indication that Torreon
again Is to become the objective Of
the contending forces was contained
in the report that Gen. Liegiez' force
that had been trying for more than
three weeks to make its way through
Nayarit to check the Sonorans on
their march to the south had been
turned about and is on 1t way to
Irapuato. from where 1t may move
toward the state of Chi
huahua.
Declare Carranza Must Go.
Another report received here
through unofficial channels was that
the high military officers whom Car
rama summoned in counsel a few days
ago had supplemented their advice
to him to resign, with an ultimatum
fixing May Is as the limit for his
tenure Of Office.
The reported determination of the
group to force him out of
office would go far. officials here be-
lteve. to account for the failure that
has been met by Carranza in getting
under way any offensive campaign.
To date the revolution has moved for
ward without a battle. and the report
the ultimatum added that
his military advisers were determined
not to follow q course that would in
involve the country in a long
struggle filled with danger Of foreign