The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1914, Page 2

— “Biaglish engineers are prisoners in a cigar factory at Orisaba, guarded 1 Wa Meerta's troops. News of this was conveyed in despatcb to the | Mary Department, received early to-day. Kindness of Americans Amazes Vera Cruz Peons VERA CRUE, April 26.—The poor peons of Vera Cruz, accustomed only to abuse and Virtual slavery, cannot understand the Americans. They can- Set understand how the American marines and sailors can shoot and kill G80 day and then feed, shelter and nurse their enemies the next. Kb Te was mainly the peone who so persistently kept up the sniping of Amerteans from the housetops on Tuesday and Wednesday. But now they ce str cared for. Extreme measures bave been taken to make the city Ray which they live sanitary in every respect, Refugees waiting last night ‘fer & train to take them to Mexico City were fed by the American troops. ‘While they eagerly ate the food supplied for them and contemplated flight, a0 of the ship’s bands entertained them by playing “He'll Have to Get ‘Out and Get Under.” Mexicans congregated in the cafes last night, laughing and chatting. The marine band played on the plaza while laughing crowds of the upper classes Promenaded and cowed peons looked on, their eyes fairly bulging with won- attacks by Gen. Maas and even the dread bandit Zapata. These alarm the natives, but the Americans ignore them. There is the interest in the arrival of the troops under Gen, Funston, which are expected here within three days, Despite the general appearances of peace, Rear Admiral Fletcher still Wares Americans against appearing on the streets at night. Ho has advised to remain in the hotels or aboard the ships. The Mexican papers have publication and carry Jurid and exaggerated accounts of the taking @f the city. There is an undercurrent of caustic bitterness and velled hints ) Gt Mexican resentment in the stories published. | Villa Again Declares | He Won’t Fight With U. S. f; ENGINEERS ON MEXICAN i will openly break with Gen supreme obief of the Con- ‘@tetionalists, and join forces with ‘the United States to secure the de- ~ @trection of Huerta, before he will \Dermit his men to join Carranza in ‘eny scheme looking toward a com- Sar JUAREZ, Mexico, April 25.—Gen.| “I not only do not want to allow Myself to be dragged into a war with the United States, as an ally of that worthless drunkard and assassin, Huerta, but I will do all I can to pre- yent such @ war,” Villa continued, “Personally, I know somethi: about war. I know the terrible suffering it causes when it ia merel: bination with “the assassin of Ma-| small ecale. i oe * @ere.” he ns imagine how terrible it would 2 This, 4 the © tutionalists’ if your troops, who would not run, like the Federals do, and Ndte: here, has been made| who would die before they would De the last twenty-four hours | driven back, should meet in battle! arene Pogele of Treg gtoobecd Roget he sald, discuasing the] Foaise what they are doing “it waa @ great mis-| Villa's friends here declare the pres- ‘paileve It beat inca] will not be compelled to AeNt's enitet com} to ul Tay vewmeoa" | Meat asta Rae le. He insists that the “yet™ to] his army will do as he saya, and that e il i “lt B,Et Hi i Releved by observers to indicate he saya they will not fight Americans. _ Byeach between Villa and Carransa| V! cides Soy ‘of te latter persists in hie attitude | fo nad captured Morne _dewaré the United States. {a good. It is Just what { expected.” ‘ S gulars Ready for Advance on Mexico By Samuel M. Williams, (@taff Correspondent of The Evening Werld.) _ WASHINGTON, April 25.—The Administration policy of watchful ‘watting io under a hard strain and !s liable to snap at any time. Secretary —— shows in his face extreme anxiety and is bending every effort now @ fe succor the hundreds of Americans reported in danger. @poke with earnest gravity to the) in danger. American property is be- correspondents, seeking to ing abandoned and the crisis is im- ne ae . | Minent, trader pale ccvivga ig : The War Department announced ‘Strutt of many alarming reports co that as many of the troops of the Fourth id Artillery as can be taken on the liner San Marcos will Ds ot {a forced upon this Gov. " it, base of operations will be ‘@A Vera Crus and the plan will be to @enfine the advance, if possible, to the fe wan Fe as Micdene tint <e| The Bete with the Ghent Doda : object t e e rt. City as the cavil asain ment has despatched to Gen. Carran- Db American forces. mov ' ga through American Consular Agent # Generally believed, wou'd be/Carothers, it was nade known to-day, ‘ee ve one. fesrerates the Satention of the Am jcan Government m: ly to secure od and navy are prepared | aration from the Huerta Government ergency and should thejand not engage in hostilities against to advance into the interior me Prantl. ite House o! inted to th and Dropert” | general denial tesued-n tow Gays age ar Depar' the story that Secretary Bryan in an army of 20,000 / would resign, saying that statement oie secran clone tha| cabinet dissension, “Fhey sald thee % YY Great degree iw the) Gia not re it aa necessary to rec border. peat the denial with each published there were appeals for more | 5 from border States, and the er __ Basing plane tor co-operating win (AVIATOR MILES OFFERS cut plane for cating into tre} SERVICES FOR MEXICO militia of various States terms of the Army bill Upside-Down Flyer Believes ‘His War Department throughout Trick Would Be of Value @ay was humming with excite- A but reports that Gen, Wood had in Scouting. been ordered to Vera Cruz hatically denied. harles F. Niles, who is called “the new upside down man,” has offered his services to the Government as an aviator for service in Mexioo, He says he ts not afraid of the mountainous Mexican country or'the treacherous alr currents, and will fly his machine Huerta emissaries are trying to | anywhere, He hopes, with a new iin over followers of Carransa and) michine, to do the loop 100 feet off « Wille to join in united attack Upon | the ground, | Niles went up again at Hempstead Wrom Eagie Passe come reports that|in nis aftty horsepower monoplane are stealing cattle and ; Me yesterday in a fifteen-mile breese from American ranches, @ pre- 44 resumed his favorite occupation Symptom of more serious) of cutting capers 4,000 feet up in the fo ig said at noon that |AURospbere. He rolled over aldewiee, ood on his head, described the letters fe, reply bad been received from| and Z in the air, and wound up by Cerranse in answer to President! gying more than a mile upside down, ‘Wileon's note of two cays’ ago. |@couts, he said, flying over the _ There is alarm througn the north- | enemy's country, could turn over @® Btates controlied hy the Consti- " Sptlomaliste as well as in Hluerta's aie Bwevinces. The great mines at t Capanes have closed and the Ameri- fo! ¥ inited are hastening over the border, | States for use in Mexico. They are throughout the couatry, copensany constructed for scouting */machines, and were to have been Oi Abert heap aed piped som Bomuehend to the Mess lives are reported ican revolutionary this week, (ae northern border were not rea: fag. The murderous Yaqui India . Geserted the Constitutionalist | i at Maytorena and gone into the nd they insist that |, Bridge at Vera Cruz, and Railroad Whose Engineers Have Been Placed Under Arrest by the Mexicans con a LEJEONE Mamines st a THe OF vVaRe cRug BG FIGHTING SHP | NEW YOK LOADED WITH WAR SHEL High Explosives and Armor Piercers, Two Kinds Used for Business. to be wheeled to the ammunition hoists forward and aft. Some of the shells were painted yellow—these were the armor plercers, guaranteed to go through almost anything. were the ones the men handle with the greatest, gravést care, the reason being that this color designates the shells as filled with extra high ox- poslve and constructed with thin walls to make the explosion the more terrific. The third kind were painted an ugly brown, and the sailors had ‘The battleship New York, which|no respect for them at all, because sails for Mexican waters to-morrow | they were only target shells, just war morning, looks like a new apartment | playthings, as it were. house on moving-in There in an] One of the anomalous sort of endless procession of men with’ “fur-)stores borne aboard the ship was a niture" tramping up the gangways| consignment of life-preservers, They and a legion of helpers on the decks | seemed a positive reflection upon the ready to receive and store the things) 14-inch guns that poked their noses that come aboard. The only way in| out of the turret just above the gang- which the scene differs from the | way. familiar one in an apartment house| Two hundred and fifty marines ls that the men know Just where to] from Philadelphia ure to join the ship put tho things. to-morrow either at the yard or at It tm in the quarters of Rear-Ad- | Tompkinaville. miral. Cameron McRae Winslow, who| The gunboat Marietta, which has 48 in command of the squadron which | Deen et, Hebenen, for the renvice of haa the New York for flagship, that! to the yard to-day and will be fitted the apartment idea reachws its fu...8t | to Jo ger ‘anee wile : ; uadron. at Machias w poses gerne) oisragnsis eae leave New Huven, where she had | been ansigned to the Connecticut Na- Jand when he went to his cabin he Reserve, and will reach the yard found in It four trunks, two big boxes, | (o-morrow and be fitted for service & brass bed, a wardrobe and five me-|With the squadron. | chanics, There wasn't @ bit of room y suffering with mumps for the Admiral. and transferred to the Naval Hosp!- “I haven't any uniform to put on,” | t#!, oes a 0 he sald, “I haven't even a puah button | emePam tony for galing are (eoing to summon an orderly, but we'll get| as und Wyoming. Tho Texas will out of here all shipshape at half past | leave about May & eight to-morrow morning.” And Com- : manger buy, wo’ was’ wansing t| BORDER STATES WANT the doorway of the cabin said, “Yes tents wese decency unw'ee| TO USE THEIR TROOPS jan it does not look pos-| Governors of Arizona and New sible that the New York could be rtady to sail when:the tide sets favor. Mexico Urge Further Pa- ably to-morrow morning, but any one , trol of Border. who knows sailormen will understand that they can resolve order out of con-| WASHINGTON, April 25.— Gov. fusion more quickly than any body of | Hunt of Arizona was in communica- men on earth. tion with Secretary Garrison to-day All sorta of stores, those for the| over the possibility of mobilizing the inner man aboard the ship and those) Arizona militia for patrol on the highly indigestible for the enemy,| Mexican. border in connection with were being taken aboard and the| the regular troops. work will go on through the greater] Gov, Colquitt of Texas telegraphed part of the night, The New York ts ihe War Denerisnens, gekinl if tho dopartin 0 r the ox lying with her starboard side to the! Viving the Toxas militia to the bors wharf, and there the edibies, the! Ger, where it would co-operate with beef, biscuit, tinned things and the/ the regular troops in patrolling the lke were being carried over the side. | border. Gov. Colquitt will be told 4/On the port quarter lay a deep scow | that there. is no authority to give his from Iona Island, and from the| Ste troops seen Baan 1 AERO depths of this the powder and pro- tOinday i ah. Jectiles were being holsted. ‘The Iner-Seals will play the Weat End In «8 stool wire sling, because it be-| baseball team to-morrow, Sunday, at hooves them to be careful, the four- Mheed Beved test Waster ie ona per teon-inch shells for the battleship's| Ninetesnt! ‘End ead Lyons wi big guns were ewung inboard and & the Inervienln ee saat D RAILROAD ARE ALL PUT UN DER ARREST with much care deposited on trucks| A me rican Club in Mexico City Menaced by the Federalist Mob|\«« ‘Americans—and the four mill. So far as is known, no lives were * Others were painted gray, and these} ase eu naeer Beeeensa tes ‘ F _|Laborers in Madera Beg | Americans to Stay There *‘ EL PASO, Tex., April 26.—A special train from Madera, bringing 109 American refugees, arrived to-day, having come by way of Chihuahua. | Among those on the train were the wife and four children of Marion F, ‘Letcher, United States Consul at Chihuahua, and Timothy Turner and | George W. Weeks, newspaper correspondents, Many refugees were on the verge of nervous collapse. Seveal as- ;®erted that when they passed through Villa Ahumada Mexicans gathered about the station yelling “Kill the Americans!” Others said they had been insulted in the streets of Chihuahua. W. W. Grubbs, of the Madera Lumber Company, sald conditions bad been erroneously pictured; that no anti-American feeling had been shown and that he had not heard rumors of an anti-American uprising. He said that when the train left Madera Wednesday hundreds of Mezi- can laborers, who depended upon the mills for subsistence, gathered at the station and implored the “gringoos” not to go and close the mille. Five thousand Mexicans will be thrown out of work and face starvation, |he declared, as the result of the American exodus. } One refugee said the city of Chihuahue was placarded with the jlegend: “Mueran los Gringoes!” (Death to Americans.) With the arrival of the train the Americans who have been leaving the country since the Tampico incident are now practically all out of |the State of Chihuahua. - The remnant in the city of Chihuahua, with the exception of few who are determined to remain to the last, will leave to-morro! on the regular train. At Naco, Douglas and Nogales on the Arizona-Mexico border the, are arriving by the hundreds every day and the State of Sonora, save fn isolated ranches and camps not yet reached by warnings, is now prav- tically deserted by Americans. After four years of revolution, practically every American in Northern Mexico is now a refugee and property worth many millions of dollars, in mines, ranches, factories and other industries has been left behind, \Citizen Volunteers Help Guard Border at Laredo LAREDO, Tex., April 26.—Smouldering ruins in what was once the | populous Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo, and hundreds of destitute re- | fugees huddled in every possible hiding place here, were visible reminders to-day of the desolation wrought late yesterday by the Mexican Federals, who burned and dynamited their one-time stronghold. | Excitement, occasioned when the Mexicans began to fire across thr | international line and their sharp exchanges with the United States border | patrol, subsided quickly when the Federals retreated, but left a streng feeling of uneasiness in its wake. All night a reinforced patrol, aided by jcitizen volunteers, guarded the river front, and heavy guards were matn- | tained at the two international bridges. It was feared other attempts Would |be made to dynamite this means of communication between the two | countries. / “Two Mexicans were shot yesterday in attempting to destroy the | bridges. Some of the more nervous citisens fear another visit of the | Federals to attack Laredo itself, but army officials, though every precaution ‘iw being taken, believe there ie no danger. There was no further trouble | during the night. It was definitely ascertained to-day that the wild shooting of the Mexicans had done no damage on the American side. On the M side destruction was complete. Fires were still burning throughout city to-day, as there is no fire fighting apparatus available. Among the larger | buildings ruined is the American Coneulate, which was first dynamited; | the post-office, the Municipal Building, the Concordia Theatre, the Mexican National Railway shops—which in times of peace employed several hun- |lost in the fire, Federals Burn and Loot Ranches of Americans EAGLE PASS, Tex, April 25.—Report was made to Consul Stocker last night of the burning of ranch buildings owned by Americans néar Piedras Negras and the confiscating of several hundred horses by Mexican troops. jester neaie also that @ store and warehouse owned by Marcus |Herrle, an Austriam, at Musquiz, was looted of about $45,000 worth of | goods and the buildings burned. | With the exception of about ten ranchmen, all Americans im thy Piedras Negras d@trict have arrived here. The ranchmen announesé | they would remain to guard their praperty. (JAPAN TO BE NEUTRAL | fre totus’ wired the htaaria Prose ciation, declaring: | IN CASE OF WAR] sccines3iettavamctt a Speraetioally | cans. Mexicans will unite and the invaders to the last breate, Seve TOKIO, April 26.—Coant Shigenobu onteen seareent resident Spaniarde |Okuma, the Japanese Premier, in a i | statement given to The Associated | Press to-day, on the Mexican altua- tion, says: Ar “Japan is paying no apectal atten-|j] 9, ” tion to the American-Mexican ques- tion, The present situation is of no direct interest/to Japan, but if a hen you declaration of war is issued, Japan rent this | will, Of course observe strict neu- . iu axcuins as v0 owing to tei] — SPTIng be sure fact that there has been no declara- you are near tion of war.” | The newspapers generally adopt a a *bus line. neutral heed uN tate comments on the situation. few of the jingolat : : organs attack the Unites States and Open air rides express sympathy lexico, Prominent persons are urging the mean Health and newspapers to be careful and not to show disappointment over the out- come of the California question, say- ing the world ts closely watching Japan to determine its attitude to- ward the United States, —~— CARRANZA DECLARES IN SPANISH DESPATCH HE OPPOSES INVASION LONDON, April 25.—A cablegram from Venustiano Carranza, dated Chi- CARPET J. & J. W. WILLIAMS ret ncaaraka ane | CORENTR RE Noe ches SSS been received by @ local Spanish press association in Madrid, according to an Bxchanse Telegraph Company's des- ~ ol1no. patch, IBERT.—At ber residence, aa Carransa’s message added that the Friday, aa Mexican people would unite to fight against the invaders to the last breath, and that of the 17,000 Span- jards in Mexioo many were ready to fight by the side of the Mexicans. No mention of Villa is made in the des- patch. MADRID. Avril 4—Gen. Carranza, : e galley ' - a ee