New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1914, Page 8

e MINIMIZE NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1914. PERILS Photos 1, 2, 3 and 8 copyright, 1914, by American Press Association; others photo by American Press Association. 1.—United States troops in front of Terminal hotel, Vera Cruz. supplies from Vera Cruz to Outposts. road station in Vera Cruz. Vera Cruz to Mexico City. cavalry dash. 8.—Brigadier General 4, 6, 7, By JOHN J. BREEN. EVERAL regiments of cavalry, an aviation squadron and con- tingents of the signal corps with wireless telegraphy field outfits were mainly considered in the army plans for the march of United States forces from Vera Cruz to Mex- ico City. Although it has been claimed that there would be a great loss of life in this 265 mile mz\r_ch through moun- tainous territory, heads of the army maintain that in the scheme of inva- slon planned the loss of life would not be considerable. It was planned that when the time of invasion came a whole flock of flying machines would cross the Rio Grande in advance of the first regiments of United States troops. It was their business to do the preliminary recon- noissance work, and for this purpose each aeroplane carried a small but effi- cfent outfit for sending information by 'wireless telegraphy. REFUGEES GI NE of the many things that added to the perplexities of the United States government in the Mexican situation was iding for the safety of refugees 2.—Carrying 3.—United States troops at rail- 9 and 10.—Scenes along railroad from 5.—Brigadier General Parker, who will lead Funston. While American forces occupled Vera Cruz there was begun a campaign against mosquitoes, stagnant pools and all other yellow and typhoid fever and malarial breeding conditions, and the inhabitants found themselves under strict rules of sanitary conduct. Yellow fever, fortunately, has not been preva- llent in Vera Cruz in recent years. ‘While medical officers experienced in sanitation were early on the ground, future steps contemplated compre- hended the possibility of a protracted occupation of the city. The surgeon general’'s department also completed plans for conserving the health of the troops in the event that there might be a general invasion of Mexico. Promise is given that there will be no repetition of the experiences in the war with Spain, when the army was handicapped by lack of training and experience in camp sanitation and knowledge of how to deal with tropical diseases. These plans included preparations for the san- itary care of all our volunteer troops. “Among the volunteers,” said a med- ical officer, “some considerable experi- ence exists as a result of maneuver camps and the Spanish war, many vet- erans of that war being in the militia. The proportions of the troops, however, will be from 50 to 75 per cent of the to- tal strength, as far as experience in the field is concerned. There will be, there- fore, a considerable force of green men to be taught camp sanitation, as well as given military instruction. Fortu- nately most of the officers of the volun- teers will be men who are impressed with the value of sanitation in the field. They and the regular officers and older soldiers will quickly instruct the new men in habits essential to health in camp. “There exists, then, a yeast to leaven the whole bread that was absent in 1898. Since that eventful year the offi- cers of the medical department of the army have been studying and practic- ing military hygiene and sanitation with brilliant results, as demonstrated in the last camps in Texas. Here 10,- VING UNCLE SAM CONCERN Some of the refugees who arrived at Galveston from Tuxpan and Tampico ay that they were shanghaied by the United States government and taken away from the Mexican coast when i/*om the troubled southern republic. they did not want to come. them were workers in the oil fields, some British subjects and some Amer- icans. Through immigration officials it was announced that the United States would pay the passage to Mexi- Most of lco of all those who said they were 000 men lived for a year with a sick rate lower than that at the average post.” Cavalry to Make Advance. Officers who worked on the cavalry plan of advance against Mexico City claimed to have perfected a plan by which they could force the Mexican troops under General Maas to abandon their defenses along the Mexican and International railways and retire upon their capital. The successful plishment of this plan would be follow- ed in the event of the Mexicans making a stand at Mexico City by the use of artillery in laying siege to the Mexican capital. In 1846 the United States began the Mexican war in expectation that a de- termined military demonstration northern Mexico would be sufficient. That theory was shortly abandoned be- cause of the vigorous resistance offer- ed, and then, as now, Vera Cruz was selected as the basic point of attack. The estimation in which Mexican troops were then held is shown by the fact that the United States soldiers always brought from® Mexico against their wills. There were others, however, who were mighty glad to get away from the scene of trouble. In Tampico, following the news of the landing of United States marines in Vera Cruz, 300 American men, women and children, were barely saved from mob violence. A crowd of infuriated Mexicans surrounded the Southern hotel in Tampico, hurled cob- blestones through the windows and shouted, “Kill the gringoes!” The mob increased, and, goaded by the flery speeches of its leaders, the Mexicans demanded the lives of the men, women and children barricaded in the hotel. The news of the capture of Vera Cruz spread through the town as if carried upon the breeze. A small crowd of peons marched up and down the streets. Mass meetings were held in the plaza. at which the speakers urged the crowd to take immediate vengeance on all Americans. Alarmed- at the threats, the Americans barricaded themselves in the hotel. A. M. Brown, president of the Mexi- can Drilling and Exploration company. who had left the Southern hotel and gone to the Imperial for his dinner, re membered that two of his drillers were in the threatened building. Mr. Brown went to the hotel, but refused to venture out, again surging back toward the pla Mr. Brown decided, however, that safe ty lay at the Imperial, and, as the mob was returning, he hurried to the roof and peered down on the angry parad- ers. He tells what he saw from the roof: “I thought it was going to be a sec- ond Alamo. Stones were smashing against the Southern on all sides. Shots were fired, and not a window on the first floor was left. Word of trouble must have reached the foreign ships in the river, for as I was looking down I saw four sailors headed by an officer. At first I thought they were our men, but as they came under a light T saw that they were from the Dutch cruiser that was in the Panuco river. The of- ficer was looking at a bit of paper he carried and then at the stores along the street. There was only one Dutchman in the town, and he kept a jewelry store opposite the Imperial; he soldiers stopped, knocked at the his s the mob wa; | Jeweler's door and took him, his family and trunkload ship. “A few.minutes commotion in the some one speaking. began to dispe: officers from t! of jewelry aboard the later there was a mob, and I heard Then the crowd se, and [ German ship Dresden had informed Zaragoza, the military governor of Tamaulepas, that they would give him fifteen minutes in which to disperse the mob. They told him if he didn't comply they'd land marines and eight machine guns and do it them- selves. WALTON WILLIAMS. accom- | in | employees | learned that | fought superior numbers, and, although they conquered, the fighting was des- perate, as a rule, and losses heavy. General Scott began the invasion of southern Mexico from Vera Cruz in the spring of 1847 with 12,000 men, the whole regular army of the United States. The city was surrendered aft- | er several days’ bombardment, and Scott on the way to Mexico City, at | Cerro Gordo, encountered Santa Anna of recent disastrous experience with General Taylor. Santa Anna had 12,- | 000 men against 8300 here, with the ad- | vantage of position and artillery with the Mexicans, but in a two days' fight the great Mexican leader had to taste defeat. | Scott could have marched into the city the next day, but he offered an | armistice, which the Mexicans eagerly |accepted and proceeded to use as treacherously as they had other ar- rangements of the kind earlier in the |war. They killed one soldier and | wounded another in a street fight, and | Santa Anna exerted evevy effort to pre- pare for further resistance while pre- OST famous of all fexico's prisons, noted for the untold thousands tortured within its walls, the castle prison of San Juan de Ulua, stands today on a little island overlooking Vera Cruz pretty much as it stood in the centu- ries of its existence. On April 28 the flag of Mexico fluttered down from its flagstaff. The stars and stripes rose in its place as Captain Paul Chamberlain | and a company of marines from the North Dakota took possession. In his dispatch to the navy depart- ment reporting the taking over of the | fortress Rear Admiral Fletcher said: | “The peison has been taken over un- der mutuaft agreement made between | myself and Colonel Vigil, in charge, | which agreement was signed and ap- proved by Admiral Badger. There are in the prison 43 prisoners who ‘have | been sentenced for crime, 75 who have been accused of crime but have not been brought to triai and also 325 who | have not been accused of any misde- meanor whatever. These 325 were ar- | rested mostly within the last two months in order to be forced into the | federal army and for no other reason. | The above data was obtained from the officer in charge. The conditions in the prison under which the 325 men are living is described as frightful.” ecretary Danlels directed the re- lease of these 325 men, ordering that the seventy-five awaliting trial should | be held pending investigation by the American authorities into the charges against them. No stage manager putting on ‘The | Count of Monte Cristo’ could imagine anything more creepy than the sight which met the eyes of the American of - ficers when the keys were turned in the rusty locks and they entered the an- | cient vaults,” wrote an American news- | paper man describing his visit to the prison. | In the grim, forbidding, gloomy pile | of San Juan de Ulua the Spanish in- quisitors found a building suited to the purposes and one which appealed to their torture loving tastes. Only a fif- teenth century Spaniard could have de- | signed such a castle. Leslie Hulbert, found cr: fortress prison under the se sent back to the United States. tives live in Rochester, N. Y. Madero's interference on Dr. C. Harle'’s behalf resulted from an inv | tigation into conditions in the prison The physician’s health had been well nigh wrecked before he was transfer- red again to Chihuahua. Hulbert was a lawyer in Rochester in | 1901, when Mitchell's sister, Helen, was employed in his office. He married the beautiful young girl and soon thereaft- | er was indicted, with William Mitchell, | for fraudulent practices in the securing zed in the will be Rela- ER OF DASH TO MEX When Scott protested he sent insulting reply, and the United as the arsenal was called, Wright lost eleven of fourteen officers {in his command in the charge and the | majority of his men. was “Charge!” as he died. |shot at the head of his men. | Scott |as he ordered | Major Waite replaced him and fell al- most as quickly. | files. ers, wounded, were murdered by Mexi- cans on the ground Colonel Graham wounded, shouting MciIntosh was Martin lifeless forward. mortally took command and fell the regiment The soldiers fefl ‘in Lieutenant Burnell and many oth- Hand to Hand Fight. Four thousand Mexican cavalry pour- Photo by American Press Association ed into the field, but Dunican tore theps | to fragments with his battery. T v | United States troops finally forced thels way through portholes of the forts and took the works in a terrible hand to hand struggle. The Mexicans rallied and charged twice in trying to recover their position. Worth lost 800 men, , fifty-eight of whom were officers, out of a command of 3,500, i A few days later, by a series of the same brilliant advances and desperats attacks, the troops took the &f of Chapultepec. That ended the and Scott's little army marched 'fl‘- conquered Mexican capital, e men, thousands of miles fro o of four battle with a record against double, treble and tending to be considering plans for |their own number, but "r; Y peace. an | States army resumed operations by at- tacking Molino del Rey, which fortifica- | tions included the Casa Mata, or “house of death,’ |and the castle of Chapultepec. verce. Mexico City was o 14, 18 As now planned the ca ment scheme comprised a sef |tours from the railroad by #l e in its movement westward from Cryz, but always with the view ing in upon Mexico City the retirement of the Mexica |along the two lines of rail believed by army officers thag what General Maas has y ican troops could be. fo Mexico City with the loss of tively few men by the The plan under consid tentatively worked out en construction of the rallfe American army as it forges ah |the aid of the cavalry flanki | ments, so as to have the raflron |able for use in handling. heavy VERA CRUZ PRISON RELIC OF DARK AGES San Juan de Ulua Fort In Vera Cruz Harbor. of divorces and fof obtaining money under false pretenses. The three left Rochester and a month later “Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Richardson"” (identified eventually Hulbert and his wife) appeared in Chihuahua, where Dr. Harle was already established as medical examiner for insurance company. ichardson” became an agent for this company Taken to Chihuahua for tria) for al- leged insurance swindles, nearly four years elapsed before the men actually faced a judge. Their friends had in the meantime become insistent in their be- half, and repeated appeals for interfer- ence were made to the state depart- mnt. Their own attorneys appearing responsible for these adjournments, no an |action was taken by Washington, and in 1905 the men were convicted and sentenced to be shot Harle's wife had in the vorced him. His mother, Mrs. Annie L. Harle of Abllene, Tex., however, nev. er let up in her efforts to save her son. and four days bef; the time set for the execution Jose Maria Sanchez, acts ing governor of Chihuahua, commutef the sentences. He acted at the direc: tion of Ambassador Creel, the actugl governor of the state. Mrs. Harle was wealthy. and her penditures in behalf of the physi were great. Hulbert is sald to have been rich himself, and it is known Shat he spent large sums. | ARTHUR J. meantime di- e’