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Show WILL REMOVE AMERICANS; REBELS TO STORM TOWN -. . . . i , , . , . HID; ififll ' - Dictator Has Placed Explosives Ex-plosives Under Palace and Other Public Buildings; Build-ings; Spanish Minister Warns Him He Must Do His Fighting Outside Out-side the City. NEWSPAPER MEN j ARE UNDER ARREST Two Are Released; Richard Rich-ard Harding Davis and Medill McCcrmick Reported Re-ported to Be Held; Zapata -Closing in on the Doomed City. t WASHINGTON', May 9. Unofficial Un-official reports reaching Secretary Bryan tonight that Richard Harding Hard-ing Davis and Modill McCormick, American newspaper writers, were t under arrest at Mexico City, j caused the secretary to ask for an inquiry through the Brazilian em- j bassador. No official news of the f reported arrests has reached tho state department. NEW YORK, May 10. Richard Harding Davis, author and war ' correspondent, who was sent by ' the New York Tribune to Mexico - as its correspondent, is under arrest ar-rest in Mexico City, according to a dispatch published in the ' i Tribune today. ' Medill McCormick of Chicago,, also is under arrest iu Mexico ; City, according to the same dis-' ' patch. The message says Brigadier General Gen-eral Funston at Vera Cruz has re- ; ceived information that the two : correspondents have been taken ; into custody. The Tribune adds j that tho state department at : Washington has Intervened to have 1 representations made to General Huerta for the prompt release of j Mr. Davis. j WASHINGTON, May 10. At 1:43 o'clock this morning Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt instructed Rear Admiral Mayo to remove all Americans from Tampico and vicinity because of the danger from the impending attack upon the city by the constitutionalist j forces. He was ordered to advise the j American consular force there to co- j operate with him. Admiral Mayo said ho was in receipt j of reliable information lhat the constitutionalists consti-tutionalists were ready to bombard that port as soon as their artillery is placed i?i position, and that it was reported the rebel forces numbered nmro than i nOIIH men. The admiral said the rebrd leaders, : the report, taid. had request'-d all Amcr- j ican citizens to be removed immediately from TampM-o, the constil ntionnlit lead- . ers basing their request upon tire fear that Americans in the city would be ' i in danger of malt rea t men t by the fed- ! arnls. Every effurt to protect foreign property prop-erty is said to hae been marie by the const.it ut.k mi list forces. The art ir: i r3 1 further announced that, the i'ed'-ral general, r'abn i I ids, )i;id published pub-lished in bulletin form the entire correspondence cor-respondence between the, American offl- CContinued on Pago Foux. : DMT 01 11; II DESTROY j CAPITAL CITY i j Diplomats and Military Men j Believe End of Huerta's Power Is Close at Hand; ! Foreigners in Danger. (Continued from Page One.) 1 cials and the federals regarding the pro- J taction of foreign policy and enjoined his troops to use care to prevent all possible pos-sible injury to any such property. MANY SIGNS THAT HUERTA REGIME IS N EARING END VERA CRUZ, May 9. All attention on the Mexican situation has turned to the ' condition of affairs in Mexico City, where ; the next scene in the international drama is looked for by many American ar.d foreign for-eign observers. The outside world knows little of what is really going on there. It is impossible for any correspondent in the capital to send any out closely censored reports. ! Those from the outside who venture into the city .nd most of t'ujse are loreigneis who go protected by passports see evi- i 1 dences cf such a tpnse situation that they do not think it safe to re.nain loner. Eefue-ees who arrived at Vera Cruz to- ' day, and foreigners who have ventured to penetrate Huerta's stronghold, described de-scribed the capita! as surcharged with intense in-tense apprehension, and despite Huerta's apparent confidence and the pursuit of the daiiv routine, there are siur.s of un-df-rci:rrnts of intrieues and ambitions w ; t h w h ! c h t h e ca i i ro n is bo n i i . s . To those who would bring to the world a true picture cf conditions there, the capital capi-tal is practicaily a forbidden city. American Seized. One traveler who returned today asserted as-serted that Louis Dantin, the only American Amer-ican remaining at the embassy when Charere O'Snaughnessy and his staff departed, de-parted, had been seized by asents of Kuerta and was in danger of execution when C:e British minister. Sir Lionel Carder.. -r.f-rfere3 and obtained lv.s release, re-lease, giving him r.rcteq:ion in the British legation. The arrest of Walter C.Wh:ffen. correspondent cor-respondent of the Associated Press, and a Vvashineton newspaper photographer, A. J. Sutton, and their detention tor a time, whiie two Englishmen wr.o were arrested with them were promptly released, re-leased, has been taken as an added evidence evi-dence of Huerta's contempt for Ameri-- Ameri-- cans. Public Buildings Mined. Reports arp current that Huerta is thus seeking to force an outside cor.flh-t and thre is a weh-authc-nticated report t:.at he has mli:e-:l the national pa:&ce. t.e potior nee. the department of coir.mm..-cations coir.mm..-cations and other puhhc buudir.s- one man who has be1!: residing -n Mexico V'i'v estimates liuerta's fore there as probablv not more than 3'j0. with no g -eat 'supr.lv of artillery and little ammunition, am-munition, i The troops about him. however, are de- i Eribd as the flower o? the armw Zspata. after a successful attack on Cuernavaca. is reported to have moved his forces to Ajusco. on the side cf tne volcano of the same name. or.v a few miles distant from the capital. The northern north-ern rebels are meeting with less and less resistance from the discouraged federal -o rr ma nr e rs . mar. :' o f wh n m have been called into the city by Huerta. End Is Near. The impression among rr.OFt m:!:Tarv men and practically all the residents o, t'- rap'ta! is that the world will not have lorn? to wait for the final chapter in the st: u??le twe-r. Huerta and h.s enernie3. Several of t.-.e. diplomatic corps, ivaded by t:ie Spanish rr'ni-ter. a-" r---. . porfd to have called on President H;;erta a f e w d av. a zo and to have u rz f-d h 1 m rot to subject the- city to a hornbari-r;ent. hornbari-r;ent. but to lead hla troops ouishie end there to m:ke h:S stand. H '.erta. g---rcrdine to t'.hs report. pro:es:ed. but the Spanish mm.ster 1 said to hive !nb'.st--d tha' unless V.f r-onsented in;r..s"fr wo" id demand Ms passp or:. H :erTa flrallv agreed, but reserved tne rigr.t fo reT'-at to the --apjtah '''ie P'anish minister min-ister months a so. in '''nfcreroe v-ph otr.T dir lon-.r"ic rep reenTa tives. suifee-s-.ed th.it wh-n '-he time came he should make su'-h a request of Huerta. Hospitals Crowded. Trains from the norh are a.d to be r.rir.sin ir.ro '-he rapUa f.'mo-u e-erv 1 dav larse r:imh-rs of wo-jr.ded. Tne It..s- ' pital? are crorrh'. -i i: 1 !' is ;isrtM h-r hv the hosnira ! ?rrve rnn -oi netted "ifh tl'.e .rneri'fin forces that the v. on ml -fl are br'.ntc !itie cared for. rr-fy on a count of the sa r-lty in Mexico City y.kr.v who hv.p reMf.-l tn the ''npital .rih'thi report that Hu---rta Intends tr.e destruction of the r.tv before departure, depar-ture, x P'la ! n i nr th-' ' Lr.f ma n Is so ,.r..-er--Fed with lb, ides, th." t he the mif 'np'jb Of 'ilreM.g t'.f- cr.v-(n-,!T"T.t ti .:. t r h-i ?. V con.e p- ; ' b ; ' 1 v irresp..: cib. They r'-L-;ird M"'.' o "ity fi s a piae "-'hb'h v, ill oon be ay fin n-rerous. n-rerous. for Mf-.',' ;i ns s for foreltrriern. Flying Columns. Up to the pienent no additional Arri;rl-f Arri;rl-f ml troops Mj ve. b-en al;f-d for be-ond I bose n rv t' ornpiete 'a y. ier 'I'-nera! Kunuon's Fifth hrj?ade. Srrut-' Srrut-' k.i'itu H-.rf-, howev.r, thai '.lie i roor-'-f and rna rjnes alre.-tuy here will be ci'-;,t fur f 1 - -1 r. sr ro'urnrft in a c;e:tt hnr. t)"jv, wivle til; V.l ije )n chets could (,-irn-: : the c.':,. b'-orr. tl, IntTkT fiJ'Kl l'ib'itfd p.rinl r'-:.-,rrs of .-tHk1 and rci t i-'t oi, An.'T-l'?i,s An.'T-l'?i,s c-uuiri'.e l.o t r i-k - ' I b r'.u h the lb"---. nhhoiK-n mo Th--i -iia -id '--.uM.-t rave yet L-e;, h'-fVit;' I. l.-i All tr;ivf f-r- oiybr.S' dovn I't'to 'hi 'ap!lal are 1. 1 r i pf '' of t e-v?pa p';rR ;j nd d'" "iinejjf.s vhh h iui:;ht re'-'ai ti;- state of affaiis there, n nd no i r. of be Ari'ii'-an o-" ' u pa t !on of Vera i'y z. ?. f'-i- ns '.u be pre'-ent., ),- th : ;i . 1m.-, 'rc-n perm j t te,-j to r'i'-h bb; tbe n.ilita;-- situattMn li"re re- mains unehAngerl. news of the disposition of the Mexican troops between Vera Cms a nd Mexico (.h ty came in toiay from j trained observer, who reported that lie saw the Sixteenth infantry nearest to the , American lines. General Ma.is's- head- riuartors are at Fa.-o do Macho, and up the river as far a:; F.spernnza be saw the Fis-hteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-seventh and Twer.ty-'-ixth infantry in the order named. Beyond Ksperanza rebels were posted along the line to Mexico City. The number was not estimated, but there was a large guard at each railroad station. |