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Show ii attack Ik iipigs Mes Are Being Taken Jjl Warships, Appar-Convinced Appar-Convinced Federals e defeated. wrds cross KrDER AT EL PASO "JW oor Driven K Torreon by Villa; !JrpIexing Questions 3pSore to Arise. 'fcflGTON, April S. Official in-. rjfB!be Mexican situation licrc to-i to-i divided between the grave fcKrtMnted by the arrival of the jKli cxIIcb at El Paso and the if4H( the strugslo between tho eon-KjBfaU eon-KjBfaU and federals for supremacy itifljKrtant RUlf port of Tamplco. IMl5ltlns already has occurred at rjlHud array and navy strategists Mpct tho battle there to bo the Wfere struggle of tho revolution. iHHHral Fletcher notified tho dc-MI"toIay dc-MI"toIay that refugees already jAjV aboard the men of war in HB'rbor. and he forwarded a re-IwBb re-IwBb Rur Admiral Mayo at that fHrig; tho presence of an army ,Bt Wj desirable as a refuge for jBitests from tho shells of tho Hil',lIiFo's report follows: hH'o.. Tuesday. Sharp fighting iBtfcerooon until dark; no ap-BidTanuige ap-BidTanuige either aide; rebels JBU Dona Cecilia and Arbol MvJP H tank Pierco refinery BJ(Gorenutiont customs waro-BTit waro-BTit Dona Cecilia destroyed by Bje about fifty loaded freight Bv probably done by shells from PVra. Cruz. Federal gun-Koa gun-Koa arrived 8 d. m. Tues-BVti Tues-BVti moro troops. Lien of war Hcne refugees tonight; re-BBk, re-BBk, 'toaorrow; unless otherwise frwlll hold both battleships pta1 of the Utah. Rebels jBHtatlon to capture Tamplco ooican fleet Is represented at JRfr the battleships Minnesota ,'HpeUcut, the cruisers Chester, jBN'aad Ean Francisco, and tho jKt Dolphin. The battleship ordered there from Vera Cruz -JJ German cruiser Dresden SBMntuh crulsera Hormione and unong the vossels of the in-SSnu! in-SSnu! f'n a.1 Tamplco and the En Carlos V la en route from Tv. r, Admiral Fletcher ro-tEa ro-tEa ordered tho hospital ship KJat Now Orleans, to bo in service at Tamplco. 9p Reticent. 'Kent officials were reticent BrftA EltVation which tho dc-Bbt.ln.v,cw' dc-Bbt.ln.v,cw' of expulsion Km??. ' 1,1 whose behalf vlgor-Pjriauona vlgor-Pjriauona were made to General JUrday. mow thut tho Tor-Fiti? Tor-Fiti? & on American soli, K' KUBt be taken for thelr BBKiv,:, were noncommltal whon MJmS'J, further representations Villa as a re-VthTnt re-VthTnt acquiesce with the United States. CLrtment probably will bo Wtt ir.A lroct measures for tho B ne,wL International vls-flfct vls-flfct taSSS .ousli at the stale Wyon had not yet been con- BfS1.3. aQ5rco, that in interna- telSm6 Shards liave a right fitn, on American soil, it Is BftwrttiirJ5 PP0S!e,n of their lUtl-aJBJUlely lUtl-aJBJUlely to urInff P BE stS,.. nbe adJuted between Mates, Spain and Mexico. Perplexing. Bifc6tTuTat,on authorities are B , V n,erPlexlty In dealing BPHta. if" dashed as 'undcslr-mW 'undcslr-mW SShf ej? ""SBcstcd thut ne-Btn.b1i ne-Btn.b1i enteral Into with BP3ii ,l9ns thfl unfortunates mW? 0f.ntry' Tl,e gravity of BBtS 1",?' wln b Increased KrivflU0hnallit3 Try out their BBW ih.,. bPaIards out of all BNn ,5(y conquer n4,Mt,r,erusees, the state do- HrtmSnU.18 reported to the K t," Spaniards arrived at romi.Mniornlnsr of the Sth. cntM,,nd.epartmont8 are fa-Mftitee fa-Mftitee Rt Ei Paso. Many PeTcross MWVEto EL PASO K&ni'uLV$l s E'sht hun-tllCi hun-tllCi rho sPan'8h colony of thJ.rom that town Hftor Flht nlLtrl,nb,1C, and after-K after-K nca.W1 c?r Gnc-al Villa, Hl ref. ll,e Su,rH and Stripes. MUi Ulne bclnF. at least, gfcat relief camo from op Pago Seven.) REBEL ATTACK UPON TIPICO REPELLED (Continued from Page Ono.) ltea l!,oy '? 1G ugly wooden filrnm i r Wl"C.l) the m"JI' Httl rfv?.rtnnown aK llle R, Orando (Great ,fr oWfl',. aml fou1 themselves on American foil nt lasu th-tV1f,p,cra.lS,; the' cln? l lc fct hnn,i 1 V,n.,hadT,IuL thn,r Interests In the ut ,i i 11,0 .United States, was shown whirl.0 ri?el l,lail ft,t.!l011Ki train Into .TouvtV Ky .an1 Ul?,r bSKaft "ad been h,fIcd.ror lhrty-alx hours, arrived hours Jlc; f?S dnwn. they resolutely declined to ,., ,,Hr?1'1 pcorgc C. Carothers. special "Ktnt of the department of state, arrived. Carothers Notified. vii.i"cw1,apcr reporter was the first isl )Ie evidence of tho proximity of the Kaf;t' to dawn on thorn, and to him they appealed to notify Carothers at once of their arrival. it. Uu ft,r,;. "nder American protection." tney explained eagerly, and the reporter primptly "otlHed the American rtprcsen-n rtprcsen-n i it',viUo .JU ont;'s deserted his isalf-llefS isalf-llefS "reakfast and sped to their ru- ,...?iarot,ler''5 was unable to comfort them "it ii any assurances that they would bo i.irJ?.d to ,hc'lr homes, ills interviews i. . G.''neral Carranza yesterday having met with the flat statement that expulsion expul-sion of Spaniards from Mexico was a sKUed policy of the rebel programme, which would he modified onlv In the cases or Individuals who mlKht, upon investigation investi-gation by a commission, be found inno-ceJ,t,.r inno-ceJ,t,.r .having mixed In politics. ... 0 ,ll!lve .money enough for tho present, pres-ent, Joaquin Fernandez, one of the colony, said. "Some offrus will return to Spain: many will Ko to the City of Mexico and others will visit friends and relatives rela-tives In the United States and Europe. I; or myself. L will make a visit to my daughter In Alabama, and then return to El Paso. Taken for Granted. "Did Villa notify you specifically that Spanish property would he confiscated V" he was asked. "I don't know; certainly not specifically, out that sort of thing Is pretty well taken tor granted In Mexico. I can state that I have personal knowledge, however, that no one In this party did anything inimical to tho rebel cause. We arc not rebels nor lluej-tistas lust farmers and business busi-ness men. Mexico is our nome, and we cannot hut hope that some day wc will he left to dwell In peaco and security there. All sorts of vehicles, wagons, donkey carts, automobiles, sight-seeing cars, burros, wheelbarrows and toy wagons were called into service to transport the refugees and their belongings. Into these were piled trunks, wash hollers stuffed with bedding and clothes, clocks, a profane pro-fane parrot in a cage, and whatnot, all showing tho hasto with which thev were gotten together after the order "of expulsion. ex-pulsion. The goods were taken up town for examination. ex-amination. whll the Immigration officials, offi-cials, deeply syni pathetic, made their examinations ex-aminations as quickly and considerately as possible. It hns been said by sonic observers that the hotel business Is the principal industry indus-try of El Paso, which, if Inie, was fortunate for-tunate in this case, for the sudden Influx In-flux of visitors found tho city well ablo to provide food and shelter. Aged Refugee Talks. With a natural suspicion, the men generally docllned to answer questions about their trip and their plans for tho future. Finally a demand for tho "Jefe," or leader of the party, brought forth a venorablc, bearded man, with a shawl around his shoulders, who consented to speak for his companions. "The journey from Torreon." he said, 'while lacking in the most ordinary conveniences, con-veniences, was not particularly hard. Nobody No-body died en route from hardship or exposure ex-posure or any other cause. "We left Torreon day beforo yesterday. General Villa Issued tho order expelling ns from Torreon and the foreign consuls-brought consuls-brought tho notice to us In the Banco do Lagtina building and other places wher0 wo were. None of us has taken the least part in the war between the federals and constitutionalists Wo have been strictly neutral and have attended to our own affairs. No Plans for Future. "Most of the people you see here are cither superintendents or employees in tho cotton plantations of the Laguna district. There arc a few merchants among them. As a rulo they aro from northern Spain, from tho provinces of Asturlas and Santandcr. All arc hardworking hard-working men. As must of us have been cultivating cotton for years, It might bo best to go somewhere and continue to raiso that. But everything depends on circumstances. The ordor for our expulsion ex-pulsion came only four days ago. Naturally, Nat-urally, wc liavo no definite plana for the future." "Did many frpanlards leavo Torreon with General Velasco?" "Scnor, 1 can't say. We wcro most of us hidden and didn't know a great deal of what was passing. Somo may have gone with him and somo mora may have left before the attack on the city. In our hiding places did como a rumor that two Spaniards had been shot I ain't say whether by tho federals or by the others, but that is about all the outside news wo got about our countrymen." Millionaire in Party. Rafael Arozcna. wealthiest resident of the Laguna district and reported to be tho most extensive grower of Sea Island cotton In the world, was ono of the S-panlsh refugees who rode to the border in a second-class coach with only his personal possessions to show for his lifetime life-time of strugglo In the Coahuila cotton country. Sonor Arozona is to the Coahuila Spanish Span-ish colony what Don Luis Terrazas Is to tho Chihuahua rofugee colony of Mexicans. Mexi-cans. He 1b the leader in commercial activities of the Laguna district, owns a number of the largest haciendas in tho district and his wealth Is estimated at 517.000,000 in Mexican currency. Ho carried today only a leather satchel, a big steamer rug and a bag' llllcd with his personal belongings, which ho gathered gath-ered together hastily when the ordor was given by Villa for tho Spaniards to leavo the country- Tho Spanish millionaire became the center of the Spanish refugoe colony at his hotel here. Ho Is a striking-loolclng man with a heavy white beard, a shock of white hair and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, over which he looked sharply when Darrylng the questions of reporters. report-ers. Hopes to Return. 'I am alone. My relatives and my possessions pos-sessions aro all In the Laguna district," ho said. "I hope to be able to return, for I. have had no part In tho internal politics of the country. 3or that reason I prefer not to say anything for fear It will be misundorstood. I was not mistreated mis-treated by anyone at Torreon and have no plana for the immediate present." Arozena is said to toIho 5000 bales or U.oOO.OOO poundB of cotton a year, from which tho gross Income In said to bo $400,000. The most important property left behind be-hind bv tho Spaniards was cotton said to he valued at 51c", 000,000. Word was received from Torreon today that SI, 000,000 worth of cotton was being loaded load-ed on trains today for shipment to El Paso by General Villa. It Is stated that tho Spanish owners cannot touch tho property If it arrives hero In bond, as Ik frequently tho caso. If It comes nonded for transit through the United Slates for shipment abroad It cannot be recovered, it is said. A precedont to this effect was established estab-lished some timo ago In the caso of a consignment of hides confiscated by tho rebels and which the former owners attempted at-tempted to recover through the United States courts. It Is said that thu only way tho original owners have of getting their cotton back Is in a court of equity in cuso tho consignment is released from bond In tho United States. Before tho battle of Torreon. I. M. Ulmur. acting consular agent of the United States at Torreon. whose father.- In-law, Joaquin Fernandez, is one of the refugees who arrived today, gave every Spaniard there an ofllclal statement directed di-rected to "whom It may concern." The statement was designed clearly to establish es-tablish tho fact beforo the rebels that Spanish property thoro was under the protection ot the United States. It follows: fol-lows: I, I. M. rimer, acting consular ngent of the United States of America, Ameri-ca, at Torreon. stato of Coahuila, Mexico, state tlmt I positively know Unit the property of (blnnk) belongs to a Spanish subject and so Is under the immediate protection of this consular con-sular agency us representative of the government of the United States of America. I must advise you that you must understand this responsibility, and, assuming that you do, my government gov-ernment holds to strict personal account ac-count those who may do any Injury to Spanish property. Among the refugees today were three priests. There are still In tho Iagnna district 150 Spanish planters on their farms. They will bo gathered together In Torreon and also sent out of the country- |
