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Show B HUERTA DECLARES AMERICAN .FUG WAS NOT INSULTED i MMMMMJ r p-onaenuBntly. i jWould Be Impossible t' to Make Unconditional" SnTuleT Says Mexican Dictator. B ' Mexico City. It waa nnnounccd H Sunday night by Senor Portollo y HHT Itojns that it would bo impoBslblo to B ngreo to tho demand of tho United H States that tho flag bo unconditional- T' ly saluted because that Hag waB nut H insulted, aB it was not Hying from H tho launch, and bocauso tho marines ' wcro set freo oven boforo un Invest!- m gatlnn, and tho ofllcor respoiiBlblo for K tho arrests was himself nrrested and Ht hold for trial. M Tho foroign minister further an- m nounccd that tho Mexican government M -would ugroo that both flags bo snlut- Hj ed, tho Amorlcan Hag Ilrst, and then M tho Mexican flag, this arrangement to M lio inndo by a protocol Blgncd by Am- B crlcan Chargo d'Affalrcs N'olson M O'ShaughuosBy and tho Mexican for- M olgu minister. M Tho United Statos government, M Senor Portillo nHserted, had refused M permission to Charge O'ShauRlinessy H4 to sign such a protocol and demanded H an unconditional salute by Moxico, H which Moxico folt was Incompatible M with her dignity. H In conclusion tho foreign minister B "Moxico has yielded as much as her B dignity, will permit. Mexico trusts to B tho fulrmiiidcdncss and spirit of Jus- B tico of tho American people." |