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Show MEXICAN GOVERNOR I SPOIUNBFOR . H6HT SENDS ULTIMATUM TO THE COMMANDER COM-MANDER OF AMERICAN GUN-BOAT GUN-BOAT OFF WEST COAST. Mexicans Open Fire on Sai'irs Without With-out Provocation, One j6 erican and Six Mexicans Being Killed as Result of Attack. San Diego. Cal. An ultimatum amounting practically to a declaration of war against the United States was served Sunday on Commander Arthur G. Kavanagh of the gunboat Annapolis Annap-olis by General Flores, Carranza governor gov-ernor of the state of Sinaloa, according accord-ing to a radiogram from the Annapolis Annap-olis at Mazatlan and received here Monday by Admiral Winslow, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet. According to the message, the commander com-mander of the Annapolis advised all Americans to leave as soon as possible. pos-sible. The .boat from the war vessel containing Bnsign O. O. Kessing, Paymaster Pay-master Andrew Mowat and a number of bluejackets approached the wharf, range with the Mexican authorities to from Commander Kavanagh to arrange ar-range with the Mexican authoriteis to get out all Americans. Without provocation, it is reported, report-ed, the Mexicans opeend fire on the sailors and Boatswain's Mate I. M. Laughter was seriously wounded. The Americans returned the fire, and as far as known six Mexicans were either killed or wounded. Earlier reports that a drunken Japanese Jap-anese started the trouble are not borne out in reports received here. Ensign Kessing and Paymaster Mowat Mow-at were taken prisoners and sent to the . fortress, but later were released on demands presented to Flores by Commander Kavanagh. The Mexican state of Sinaloa is situated sit-uated between the gulf of California and the states of Durango and Chihuahua Chi-huahua and, the contains an area of 33.71 square miles. The country, which along the coast is low and sandy, rises gradually to an altitude of 7,500 feet in the western border of the state, where it is traversed by a portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental Occi-dental range. Its population ins about 325,000. |