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Show FRENCH ASKING FOR PROTECTION American Cruisers Will Offer Asylum If Colony Is Found in Distress. Washington. 0 i 2S The reported appeal of the French minister In Mexico City to Charge O'Shaughnessy for an American warship to protect tbe French colony at San Ignaclo, Sl-nnloa. Sl-nnloa. had not reached Washington today to-day but If such a request has been made it probably will be granted The cruiser Maryland Is due today it Mazatlan, Slnaloa, the cruiser California Cali-fornia is at Guaymas with the supply ship. Glacier and the cruiser Pitt burg leaves San Francisco for tho Mexican Pacific coast Saturday. If news of distress of the. French colony at San Ignacio reaches any of these vessels, asylum will be or fered to any refugees without tbe for ! malit of a request irom the Frencb government |