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WANTS ms REUiSE BRYJLff DEMANDS FREEDOM OF AMERICAN OONSULu , HE IS HELD PRISONER i 1 » TV / % Mexicans Loot Consulate and Hold Many Americans Prisoners,—Later ■' .; . . \ - \ They Release Every One Except Consul SHUman—Government Is Active. While peace negotiations marked time pending formal sittings of the South American mediatoTs, to begin Monday on Canadian soil, the media tors and officials of the state depart ment at Washington Monday were oc cupied with several serious phases of -the Mexican situation demanding im mediate attention. -—Secretary Bryan called at the Ar gentine legation late in the day and spent two hours in conference with theTJouth American envoys, discuss ing the continued detention of John R. Silliman, American vice consul at Saltillo, by Mexican federals, the Lo- bos incident and the case of the five South Americans under arrest at Vera Cruz for firing upon the United States shllors and marines. Mr. Bryan insisted that the release of Stilliman must be brought about at once. When asked about the mat ter, he would' not say what would I happen if the vice consul were kept In prison, but he was gravely em phatic in announcing the govern ment's determination to have him freed. First ofliclal news of landing of American saiiore—on reached the navy department, la»e Tuesday night in a cablegram from Rear Admiral Mayo, stating that the Mexican keepers deserted the great light house on the Island and that the destroyer tender Dixie was "main taining it for the benefit of naviga tion’ Admiral Mayo’s report responded to a request of the navy department for immedinate information concern Ing the incident complained of by the Huerta government to the mediators. It said: “Lobos Island has not been occupied. The keepers of Ixybos is land light house deserted it and the Dixie is maintaining it for the benefit of navigation. I understand that the destroyers have had occasional Aand Ing parties ashore.” . ; The report was sent at once to Sec retary Bryan. The department offi cials were confident that the explana lion would make it plain that there had been no violation of the armis tice. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt aaid the Dixie anchored off Lobos is land only because it was a convenient place to coal and that the light house keepers evidently quit their posts in a panic at the appearance of tlie Amer lean warships. At that time Secretary Daniels and his advisers will take up the problem of the closed light houses on the west coast of Mexico. Some naval officers favor the occupation and operation of all the abandoned lights along the coast because navigation has been hindered seriously: It is probable that the state department will re- w quest that the light houses be kept ^ men at the request of the American } ^>vernment under the armistice rules. It was said that foreigners on •* board warships off Tampico wanted refuge and not removal.. .Disturbing elements continued to arouse interest throughout the day. Gen. Funston at Ver' Cruz was ap pealed to by the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to release some South Americans, Including three Brazil ians, who had been arrested and are awaiting trial for.‘‘sniping” American soldiers from the .refuge of a tramp steamer in Vera Cruz harbor. Authorities were informed that American Vice Consul Silliman was Imprisoned by Huerta’s soldiers at Saltillo. From Tampico, where Mexi can federals and Constitutionalists have been preparing for a sanguinary ’ struggle, came rumblings of battle while reports that Huerta’s strength was waning in Mexico City and that the bandit leader Zapata was about to attack the capital from the south served to arouse diplomatic agents of foreign nations lest their people in Mexico City might be in immediate •dangef of persecution or death. State department officials were in dignant when it became known that Vice Consul Silliman and his clerk, Joseph A. Marchani, as well as sev eral other Americans, had been pris oners of the federal commander at Saltillo and that the consul still is 1 held despite urgent representations for his release made by the Brazilian minister in Mexico City. Late dis patches were accepted as indicating that the Mexican war minister’s as surances to the French charge last week that neither Consul Silliman ebr members of, the, consulate’s staff and Americans in Saltillo “had been ' •ceive state department official* as to Late in the day Consul Canada re ported the arrival of Consular Clerk Marchani in Vera Crus. ‘ The clerk Informed Mr. Cankda that before hs released from custody of the REPORTS ON FIGHTING TERSE DISPATCHES TELL OF BATTLE AT VERA CRUZ. Events Following Landing of Ameri- y ■' 1 * can Marines Told by Ensign Mar tin. SPEANSOF DUNG - : < ' C DEATH IN WAR OF SERVICE IS A GLORIOUS OFFERING. With Spartan terseness are written the army, navy and marine reports which officially tell the story of our advance in Mexico. There is little at tempt at literary style -and none at bringing Into prominence spectacular ^fevents and heroic deeds. Yet through these dignified, straightforward pages runs an undercurrent for the careful reader that thrills with a tale of romance and gallantry. Here is hew Ensign Ralph Martin, adjutant of the Marine Battalion of San Francisco, wanting from the cus tom house at Vera Cruz, tells his bri gade adjutant of the capture of the town. He heads his letter "data con cerning landing engagements”. ’The San Francisco’s battalion landed at midnight, April -21. This force consisted of nine officers and 116 men comprising two four-squad Infantry companies, two Benet-Mer- clcr automatics and special details with gun-cotton party. April 22. “Upon landing reported to Regi mental headquarters at Hotel Ter minal and then proceeded to custom liouse in rear of which our battalion was directed to erect a barricade be tween No. 1 warehouse and the water front in prolongation pf^Calle Miguel Luerdo. This' work was completed and barricade manned before day- iight. - ‘‘One of our automatic guns and Lobos- Tste*d-fUtah mounted on the roof of south wihg of custom house be gan firing on Hotel Oriente at day light. Hotel was captured and sev eral prisoners were taken. Desultory firing all along our front during morning and forenoon, which we suc ceeded In silencing by volley firing. About 9 a. m. the second.naval regiment passed in rear of custom house and proceeded to southward of our line. When they came abreast naval academy and the incompleted uarket they were subjected to a heavy fusillade principally from these buildings, The regiment deployed a the plaza between these buildings and Estaolon Sanldad. After a sharp engagement In which ships In harbor assisted by shelling, the naval acad emy and market were taken. The San Francisco’s guns were firing on the naval academy. Fire again be came desultory after this engagement and at 10:30 our regiment was de ployed along Calle Zaragoza from C. Benito to C- Estaban Morales. “The San Francisco’s battalion act ed as a support all along this line. At noon we were quartered in cus tom house and have si^ce held cus tom house and surrou. ng territory assigned to our precinct. This dis trict comprised the section of the city from Calle Zaragoza to water front between V. Vicario and C. Mon- tesinos. Gur position was fired on by snipers from time to time during night. April 23. “Snipers continued firing along our front principally from incompleted market building. This fire was silenced as often as it broke out. “Having suspected firing from the “Sonora, a Mexican steamer moored to the sea wall Just to northward of muelle Fiscal, we arrested the crew of this steamer and they were incar cerated in the municipal jail. April 24. "Same conditions as preceding day except arrested Chief Engineer of “Sonora” and a secretary of the Nav igation Company of Mexico who were on that vessel. These men were placed in municipal jail. German steamer “Ypiranga” and Spanish steamed "Libertad” were docked at Muelle Fisoal. Both alowed to land passengers and baggage. “Patrolled district under our charge day and night. “During the period covered In abovp report the San Francisco’s bat talion has suffered no casualties. The battalion were quartered in No. 1 warehouse in the custom house com pound during this time. “The list of dead and wounded cared for by rie San Francisco’s hos pital corps after the engagement on April 22, 1914, is attached hereto.” dramatic rspr—ntation, a sort of dramatic almHc of a thousand forms sf duty. I never went into battle. I never was under fire, but I fancy that there are some things Just as hard to do as to go under lire. I fancy that It is Just a% hard to do your duty when men are sneering at your as when they are shooting at yon. When they shoot at you they can only take WII^RN UAKFS flRATMN Uf* When they siroer VTILuUll m/HILu Un/IIIUN pat yon they can wound your heart. And men who are brave enongh, steadfast enough, steady in their prtn-, ciples enough to go about their duty with regard to their fellow men, no Standing at Biers of Youths Who Have Given Their Lives at Their Country's Call President Utters a and compelled at the point of a re volver to open the safe and surrender to the Federal commander all the consular records and all valuables, Including money and quantities of jewelry left there for safekeeping. It is not known bow many Americans were imprisoned, but u^ord was re- ceived that all bad been released ex cept Consul Silliman. A telegram, J>ent by Mexican For eign Minister Ruls'^uesSay^iald that Consul Silliman, under arreet at Sal tillo, charged with aiding the rebels. In danger” was intended only to de>i had been ordered sent to Mexico City fw-th# Tlrasnfah minister for return to the United tSatee. Adopts Cqpunlseloa By a vote of abont one-half the voters Rode Hill Monday adopted the of matter whether* there are hisses or cheers—men who can do what RniP yard Kipling in one of his poems. Nation’s Gratitude—Tinge of Envy wro t e : Broods Over Heroic Dead. Standing with bared head in the inclosure'at the Brooklyn navy yard President Wilson Monday, before 10,- 000 people who had massed their way in to pay tribute to the bluejackets and marines who gave up their lives at their country’s call, delivered thia address: "Mr. Secretary: I know that the feelings which characterize all who stand about me, and the whole nation at this hour, are not feelings which can be expressed suitably In terms of attempted oratory or eloquence. They arp things too deep for ordinary speech. For my own part I have a singular mixture of feelings. The feeling that Is uppermost is one of profound grief that these lads should have had to go to their death. And yet there Is mixed with that grief a profound pride that they should have gone as they did and, if I may say It out of my heart, a touch of envy of those who were permitted so quietly, so nobly, to do their duty. “Have you thought of it, men. Here is the roster of the navy, the list of men. ■QfflceoL.and.enliated men. “ 'Meet with triumph and disaster, and treat these two imposters just the same’ “These are men of which a nation may be proud. • -f “Morally speaking, disaster and triumph are Impostors. The cheers of the moment are not what a man o«ghAM4hlpkjaiftl4*JyilLthft r : of his conscience and of the con sciences of mankind. So when I look at you I feel as if I also and we all were enlisted men—not enlisted in your particular branch of the service but enlisted to serve the country, no ahd Marinos, anti suddenly' there shown URThe way. swim 19 stars out of the list, men who havS gone suddenly into the firmament of memory, where we shall always see their names shine; not be cause they called upon us to admire them, but because they served ua without asking any questions and in the performance of duty, which is laid upon us as well as upon them. ‘‘Duty is not an uncommon thing, gentlemen. Men are performing It in ordinary walks .of life all around us all the time and make great sacri fices to perform it. What gives men like these, peculiar attention? Not because they did their duty, but be cause their duty had nothing to do with them or their own personal and particular interests. They did not give their lives for themselves; they gave their lives for us because we called upon them, as a nation, to per form an unexpected duty. That is the way In which men grow distinc tive knd that is the only way—by serving some one else than them selves. And what greater thing could you serve than a nation such as this we love and are proud of? "Are you sorry for these lads? Are you sorry for the way they will be re membered? Does it not quicken your pulse to think of them? I hope to God none of you “may Join the list, but If you do you will, join an im mortal company. "So while you are profoundly sor rowful and while there goes out of our hearts a very deep and affection ate sympathy to friends and relatives of these who for the rest of their lives shall mourn them, though with a touch Of pride—we know why we do not go away from this occasion cast down, but with our heads lifted and our eyes on the future of thl^ coun try with absolute confidenceof how It will be worked out, nolMkly the more vague future of this tountry, but the Immediate future. “We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, If we can find out the way. We do not want to fight the Mexicans; we want to serve the Mex icans, If we can, because we know how we would like to he freed and how we would like to be served if there were friends standing by ready to serve us. “A war of aggression is not a war in which it Is a proud thing to die; but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die. “Notice that these' men were of our blood, men of our American blood, which is not drawn from any one country; which is not drawn from any one language of the modern world, but from everywhere people have sent their brothers and their daughters to this country in order to make thtft-great compounded nation, which consists of all the sturdy ele ments and all the best elements of the whole globe. “Listen to this list with a profound interest at the mixture of the naMes, for the names bear the marks of sev eral national stacks from which these men came; but they are not Irish men nor Germans nor Frenchmen nor Hebrews an? more. They were not when they went to Vera Crns. They were Americans, every one of them, and- wera-tta dlfforeet ta ■ thtwr Americanism because of the stock from whlchv they came. Therefore •they were in a peculiar Sense of our blood aa& -they proved it by sh Tftbi they Were ^f’our’spmirttdt no matter what thetAderfration; no mat ter where their mtheVs came from they sought and wished end did the things that were American, and the flag; under which they aerved was a flag in which all the bW0**€ kind la flatted to malm a SIDELIGHTS ON MEXICO i \ Vf BY A VETERAN matter what may come. What though we may wasto our lives in the ardu- our endeaver! We are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that we have into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to Jiappen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, r to go 15 the utter length of complete sacrifice. As I stand and look at you to-day I think of the spirits that have gone from us, and I know the road is clearer for the future. These boys have shown us the way and it 4s easier to walk on it because they hays _ gone, before an4 Our sailors sad marines on the greas before he ordered Gen. Taylor sunbaked decks of United States war- forward to the Rio Grands and thus ships off Vera Crns should never brought this momentous matter'to a grumble at the climate, their food, head, though it had been in session and the general surroundings. They when the order was Issued. Ho had are ‘A a thousand ways better off taken full responsibility for that un- thaa he p< or fellows who lay off the on himself. War, Indded, existed— same jort in 1847 while Gen. Scott hut by whose act Congress was no is fighting his way to Mexico City. | longer at liberty to inquire. < There I went through the cold storage!was nothing for it but to vote sup- compartments of a hattlsehip recent- plies and an army; and a formal dee- iy. There were tons of frseh beef laratlon o$ war was resolved upon hanging on the walls A little further May 13, 1846, before news of 'tha on were fresh vegetables in abund-jreal flghlng on the Plo Grande had ance. *■' None of this in 1847. It was salt horse, or scouse or some other equal- !L.£ojxijy9..X994.— the tropics. ——| late in Angust Gen. Taylor moved InstSSa'of the old fashioned triple asain and within a month, by severe plate hard tack, your 1914 Jackie * and dogged fighting took the strongly revels in hot loaves and toothsome fortified town of Monterey, a full 170 biscuits. There are yellow omeletes “lies to the west of Matamoros, on and In place of that questionable tke highway to the Mexican capltaL lump of dough which now and then 1® November Gen. Winfield Scott, the a stray currant, which was called ranking officer of the Federal Service reached the Capital. '‘Until Autumn all things stood as they were between the belligerents "plumduff’’ there are cakes and pies w as given chief command, and in Jah- and puddings. juary, 1847, Gen. Taylor's force was Sailors nowadays have all the pur-!educed to a scant 6,000 to recruit est of chilled water, to drink they the immediate command of his su- want. In 1847 they got a scant al- perior, sent by sea to attack Vera lowance from the scuttle butt. There Cruz. was nothing frigid about that cup. J “On the 22*d and 23rd of Febru- It often had lain for months in the ai T Santa Anna attacked him,-with ship’s tanks and was frequently both f° ur time his numbers, where he lay foul and sour. A fnarine stood guard defense on the broken plain of over the precious liquid. To relieve Bnena Vista, thinking to crush him the awful taste the old seadog got his whlle he was weak, and was repulsed, tot of grog regularly, (The Americans were no longer raw in stormy weather, despite the ^^^rasther k*,,amhad been in the extemporized armies “May God grant to all of us that vision of patriotic service which awaits us.” LESS WHISKEY SALES. Counties In the State Spent Less April Than February.. in The report of the State Dispensary auditor for the month of April shows that there has beeq a decrease in the sale of liquor during the month of April all over the State, that Is, in the counties that have the dispen sary. The total sales all over the wet terrltorMbaa been sieadlly drop ping since January, and .is probably due to less money being handy, rath er than to aversion to the liquor. Following shows the said* by the months since January 1: January .$ 330,123 February 306,087 March ........ 295,359 April . . , s S x . . . . 281,716 Total . . . .$1,212,274 Following shows the r es by coun- ties for April: Aiken ., .. .. 20,320.44 Beaufort . . .. .. 12,264.35 Barnwell . . .. ... 17.J26.68 Bamberg .. Calhoun. . .. Charleston. .. .. 46,676.64 Dorchester. . .. .. 6,732.35 Florence . . .. .. 38,729.02 Georgetown. .... 12,756.95 Jasper .. .. Orangeburg.. Richland . . Union .. .. .. .; 12,997.55 Lexington . . Total .. .. ALL NEWS CENTERED. Mexico City Correspondents Hazardous Job. 41 Have For some time the life of the for eign newspaper correspondent In Mexico City has been a hazardous one. Several have been reported de ported and the minister of foreign relations, Senor Portillo y Rojas, has repeatedly informed them in more or less pointed fashion that they, must send out no news favorable to the rebels. Of course he did not put it that way exactly. He simply accused them of sending out false reports which were injurious to Mexican peace. Here is one of his warnings: This department has proofs that the correspondents -of foreign news papers in this capital are sending re ports which are false and which are favorable to the rebels and injure the government of the republic, where fore this department reminds them for the last time of the resolution of December 27 of last year, which says: “The government has noted with profound displeasure that certain for eign newspaper correspondent® are devoting their attention to the trans mission abroad of false reports which rabonnd to the injury of both ait-y cane and of foreigners resident in this country, and for this reason, change their conduct, since, otherwise r. 1 pyraldatar «d nrmMr.Mattmoros.- > t5i , bi^«i lira«i^<r^m tteis?^ tlonal territory according to Article 3S. of the federal constitution.” Blown Ashore, unidentified schooner trna 17 near Lewea, ■of 1813 Though they wore for the | most part volunteers their offleers ! were professionals and they were heat, the batches were battened down. Tfibre were no’electric fans and blowers. Yet,- all in all, our boys of to-day drnled * and handled with n skill and are a brave lot and had they to en- thorouKhneB . that made Te terans of dure the hardships of sixty years ago. them wlth a Blngl9 battle I am sure they would comport them-, .. Thelr steadiness and prowess WM selves gallantly. I potato full test with Gen. Scott fn • • • the South. They had not only to take The news that Tammany will send Vera Crus by set selge In order to regiment to the front In case of make good their landing, but had trouble with Mexico assumes a more also to scale the huge escarpments serious aspect, recalls to my mind the of the west tableland upon which tha brave part borne by men of the Four- Mexican capital lay, 200 miles away, teenth Street organization in our pre vious International conflicts. more than 7,000 feet above the sea, and to make their way across the The Society of Tammany is entirely'broken, hilly plains beyond, flghtlnff separate and distinct from the pohti-1 everywhere as they went against aa .cal organization. Bat the same men enemy who outnumbered them and are members of both and it was the' w “ secure against surprise within political opinion of the Manhattan regular Democratic leaders which hastened the call for the meeting. It is the wish of Tammany political leaders to express their loyal support of the president in this crisis, the more especially because the organiza tion had differed with both the presi dent and Secretary Bryan on most principles of government. When the sachems offered a fully equipped regiment of one thousand volunteers to Governor Glynn of New York state they did no more than had been done by the heads of the organ ization In 1812, 1846, 1861, and 1898. .. * * * In his "History of the American People,” President Woodrow Wilson by Inference criticises President Polk for sending Gen. Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande without first having consulted congress ancF also asserts bur THalm to the territory ceded at the end of the war was that of con quest. “The Texas boundaries,” he says, “were another matter. Here the gov ernment dealt with a rival and faelgh- bor with whom no compromise was necessary. Texas claimed not only everything north and west OTher that had been Spain’s or Mexico’s all the way to latitude 42 degrees, but also so much of the territory of her one time partner state, Coahulla, as lay between the Nueces and the Rio Grande del Norte and Mr. Polk es poused and acted upon her claims at the south even before her formal ad mission Into the union was complete. “He ordered Gen. Zachary Taylor to occupy the western bank of the Nueces with a small force of United States troops and during the Summed of 1845 sent him reinforcements which raised his strength to nearly 4,000 men. In December, 1845, Tex as became In full form a State of the Union; and early In the following year the President ordered Gen. Tay lor to advance to the Rio Grande. His presence there threatened the Mexican town of Matamoros, Just be yond the river and the Mexican com mander at Matamoros demanded his withdrawal to the Nueces. General Taylor refused to with draw. The Mexicans crossed the riv er on April 23, ambushed a small body of American dragoons. Two weeks later they attacked General Taylor In force and he repulsed them. day Taylor in his turn attacked, and drove the Mexicans across the river said correspondents are warned to lln disastrous rout. On the 18th Oeu. Taylor himself passed the Rio Inner lines of communication. And yet from the carrying of the pass at Cerro Gordo (April 18, 1847) to the' storming of the high fortress to Cha- pultepec (Sept. 13) there was no panse or miscarriage in the steady process of thoir victories. “The City of Mexico lay admldst guarding fortresses and was set about by morasses crossed only by narrow causeways: But the Americans mov ed everywhere with the business like certainty and precision of men well- handled. and their volunteer yanks seemed less In need of offleers than other armies did. Individual pluck and dash and resourceful daring, Ir resistible in all that they did. They fought men as brave as themselves, a subtle, spirited foe, tenacious to the last of all that it could hold; they fought also against odds and moved everywhere against fortified places; but on they won, undaunted, at every onset. By September 15th they were in complete and formal possession of the enemy’s capital and Mexico was in thplr hands, within but a little more than six months of their land- ing. “Meanwhile the Government at Washington had broadened the scope and meaning of the war beyond all expectation. During the summer of 1846 and the winter of 1846-47 It had seized not merely the dlspnted territory which Texas claimed, but also the whole country of the Pacifie slope beyond, from Oregon to the Gila River, to which the United Statee could have no conceivable right ex cept that of conquest. The thing was easily accomplished. .. A fleet under Commodore Sloat and Stockton and a few troops rating here and there until Col. Kea. •: and Capt. Prom inent moved aim . s they pleased; and a territory o. 30,000 squaje miles was added to the United Statee. “The war with all Its Inexcusable aggression. land flue fighting, was brought to its formal close by a trea ty signed at Guadeloupe Hlldalgo on February 2, 1846, by which Mexico recognized the Rio Grande as the sooth-western boundary line of Texas and ceded New Mexico and Callfov*. nia, of which the United Stats had taken possession by force of anna. For this territory, seizer and ceded, the United States agreed to pay Mex ico 815,000,000.” i ^ *i*t River Reaches High Mark. Arkansas .river st Wichita, Kan., reacher the highest mark known In 20.yean. Flood waters dne to recent heavy rains it| Msxico”, the President told Con-, on the 11th of May, while yet he had no news except that of the ambush of the 23rd of April, “Mexico has passed the boundaries of tha^ United States •. * and shed lean blood upon American soil. War | much. water m»rk, epnstng the railroads to, fear for the safety of bridges. The' river 1s believed to have reached Mas msAmum V