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Show i DECLINED TO PERMIT A SQUADRON TO DEFEND AMERICANS. At Tamplco there wai a gen. II eral movement of attack by the j Mexicans on American and I other foreigners. We had a j j) squadron of American warthlps (j In the nelohborhood. The Wll. ton Administration declined to ( ( permit this squadron to be used jj II to defend the lives of American (j men and the honor of American II I women, and the commanders of jj the Qerman and Enalish ships (I I at Tamplco had to step In and II II perform the task our reprcsen- A jj tatlve had so basely abandoned, jj j At the very time that the Mexl- jj can mob had surrounded the II II building In which the Americans jj had taken refuge, and was howl- jj jj Ing for their blood, the Amerl jj jj can fleet, In spite of the pro jj (j tests of the American naval jj jj commander, and In accordance jj jj with wireless orders from Wash, jj II Ington, was forced to steam out jj of the harbor and leave the Am. II ill erlcans to be massacred by the jj ijl Mexicans, or rescued by the jj jtj Germans and English. From jj 1 1 the speech of Col. Theodore jj jj Roosevelt, delivered at Lewis jj j j ton, Maine, In behalf of Charles jj j j E. Hughes. jj |
