Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-27
Department Here Supports
Embassy's Demand for
Protection.
18 BEING Threatened
BY SYNDICATE OF REDS
Troops Reported on Way to Help
Foreign Subjects at Jalisco
Fail to Arrive.

Inc reported beSleging of Is Ameri-
cans and IL British subjects i'm their
homes near the American-owned
plant of the Amparo Mining Co., in
the State of Jalisco, Mexico, prompted
the State Department today to instruct
the American embassy in Mexico City
to keep the matter of adequate pro-
lection for Americans we'll before the
Mexican government.
Approval also was cabled for the
embassy's action in making represent
tations and in demanding protection
for American lives and property at
Amparo, where a group described as
composing red syndicate" was said
to have occupied the mines and be-
sieged the American and British resi-.
dents.
While President Gales was report.
ed in Mexico City dispatches to have
instructed the military authorities to
protect the mine company officials. up
until Friday mornin, Consul Joseph
c. Satterwhite advised the State De-
partment, no Mexican troops had ar.
rived on the scene. The State Depart
ment did not regard this dispatch as
necessarily contradicting the Mexico
City advices, because it was possible
that action might have been taken
after the consuIs report was for.
warded.
Second Attack This Week.
This is the second attack on Ameri.
cans in Mexico this week. Earlier in
the week Miss Florence Anderson of
Los Angeles was shot and fatally
1aI yrir, 80 oIr In,
by a band of MeXicans, near Acopo-
! meta, Nayarit.
While awaiting further details to-
day of the seizure and the safety of
the barricaded Americans, Washing
ton &c vernment officials were inform
ed in official press dispatches that the
Mexican government had already
taken measures to assume charge Of
the situation and afford military pro-
lection to the beseiged officials Of the
company. silver mining concern.
Whether the seizure was a protest
against the Sacco and Vanzetti exc
| cutions was mot determined in
reports received by the State De-
partment from it's Guadalajara con-
sui. But it appeared in all prob.
ability to be related, as the con.
sui, Joseph c. Satterwhite, had re-
ported last Sunday that labor agita.
tors had attempted to incite the AM
paro workers to take action against
foreigners in the event of the eXecu.
ton. His first reports of the incident,
however, only said that the occupa-
ton of the mines was by ''red" syn.
dictate.
President Gales was reported in
Mexico City dispatches to have in
structed the military authorities of
To IN Of ffII1 IN
companys officials, while reports to
the Mexican capitals newspaper
said there was no violence nor were
the lives of the Americans and Brit
ishers endangered in the seizure.
President Gales also ordered the de-
partment industry to take charge or
the situation to effect a settlement.
Flooding of Mine Feared.
The foreigners at the mines, with
the exception of the 80 beseiged per-
sons. had left for Guadalajara, 40
miles away, according to the state
Department advices. The mining
properties were reported to be suf-
fering considerable loss through stop
page of work and are in danger OF
being flooded.
The managers Of the Amparo Pie
dro Bola and Amazapan mines also
were said to have reached Guadala-
lara, saying they had been compelled
to leave their offices by armed mu-
nicipal forces obeying instructions
from the state authorities.
That Consul Satterwhite had feared
the outcome of the anti-foreign propa-
ganda in the region was revealed by
his report that he had drawn the at
tention last Sunday of the federal mill
tary commander at Guadalajara to the
threatening situation. The governor
of Jalisco, Margarito Ramires, Is said
to have made a visit to the mining
district to effect a termination of the
conflict.
For the time being the American
embassy at Mexico City is in charge
Of the situation. The embassy officials
Immediately made vigorous representa-.
tions to the Mexican government for
federal military protection for the be-
seiged Americans and the mining
properties.
News of the pursuit Of the bandits
in the west coast state Of Nayarlt
who caused Miss Anderson's death has
not yet reached the State Department.
Troops Fail to Arrive.
Up to Friday morning neither fed.
eral or state Mexican troops had
reached Amparo. the State Department
was informed in a message reaching
here today from Consul Satterwhite.
Although Satterwhite's telegram and
the assurances which the Mexican
acting foreign minister gave to the
American embassy that the military
had the Amparo situation 'in hand"
were both dated yesterday morning,
the State Department pointed out that
they need not necessarily be in con-
tradiction, since they might have been
filed at different times.
Satterwhite said that he had been
informed by telegram from Amparo
that the governor of Jalisco was ex-
pected at Amparo, but no details were
given regarding the safety of the
Americans and British held there.
GALES PROMISES AID.