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Show WAR EVENTS OF YESTERDAY Washington. April 22. Here are yesterday's war developments at a glance: Secretary of the Navy Daniels ordered or-dered Admiral Fletcher to seize tho customs house at Vera Cruz. At 11 o'clock In the morning Admiral Fletcher landed a party of marines from the Utah, Florida and Prairie and took the customs house, the railroad rail-road terminals, postoffice. cable office and the sections ot the city surrounding surround-ing the consulate. The Mexicans resisted in the fighting; fight-ing; four American marines were killed and twenty were Injured Desultory' fighting continued all day and into the night. Orders wont from Washington to Philadelphia to load 1000 marines on the vessel Morro Cautle. chartered by the government, and transport them, at once to Vera Cruz. All troops on the Mexican border were ordered to concentrate at. Galveston. Gal-veston. Announcement was made that Ma-jor Ma-jor General Leonard Wood, the active head of the army, will leave for the Mexican border tomorrow night to take command. Admiral Badger tvas ordered to send an additional warship and marines ma-rines from Tampico to Vera Cruz. Orders were sent to all chaplains on shore duty to Join the battleships on the Mexican coast at the earliest possible moment. Secretary of State Bryan called in the ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and China and explained to them the justification jus-tification of the United States in taking tak-ing the customs house at Vera Cruz. They assured him their governments made no objections. A conference was held tonight at the White House by President Wilson, Wil-son, Secretary of State Bryan, Secretary Sec-retary of War Garrison, Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Presidential Secretary Tumulty. From there, Secretaries Sec-retaries Bryan, Daniels, Garrison and Tumulty went to the senate to urge the passage of the administration's resolution. The Republicans in the senate : fought all day to strengthen the reso- lution and commit tho admlnlstra- i tion to the protection of American r lives and property In the northern part of Mexico, as well as to war j against Huerta. Bitter attacks on the J administration's policy were made by I Senators Lodge, Root, Fall and oth- I ers. The house adjourned early until 10 I o'clock tomorrow morniug. This j means no final action on the war f resolution until tomorrow. i Orders were Issued to place the I I cruiser Salem and the gunboat Cas- 1 ' tine in commission at once. The president and Secretary Dan- i iels of the navy and Secretary of War j Garrison, representing the two arms of the service which must fight, held ' a short but important conference about S o'clock in the evening. Secretary Daniels, whose ships have already acted and are continuing to act at Vera Cruz, said after this conference con-ference that there was little left for the navy now to do but to proceed fl under its orders. !jj Secretary of "War Garrison said that he was still unable to make any 1 further announcements on the move- ; ments of tho army until congress acts. At his office two things are ex- pected: 1 First a call for volunteers, which j General Wood thinks should embrace 250,000 men. Second, that orders to move will go I to about 100 garrisoned posts in the i United States before 12 o'clock. Any movement of the militia or their concentration will depend upon I. the president and his call for volunteers. volun-teers. There are 10,000 marines in the United States service and 5000 of them, it is announced tonight, are in the immediate vicinity . of Vera Cruz. The highest ranking officer among the marines at Vera Cruz is Captain ; W. C. Neville, who Is on the Prairie, ; j from which a battalion of life' landing 1 force was taken today. The 5000 marines will be Increased by about 1000 more to be shipped at once on a war liner from Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. |