The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 21, 1914, Image 7
WANTS ms REUiSE
BRYJLff DEMANDS FREEDOM OF
AMERICAN OONSULu ,
HE IS HELD PRISONER
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Mexicans Loot Consulate and Hold
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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