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Show I BOMBARDING OF I MEM PORT I American Warship Said to j Have Opened Fire on y Manzanillo I Mexico City, Mexico. April 29 Gen- A eral Aureliano Blanquet, minister or I war. Announced today hp had receiv- J ed from General .Jos Mariano Mier 1 a telegram stating that the port of , Manzanillo. on the Pacific coast, had Mj heen bombarded yesterday hy an 9 American warship 4 According to General Mier's mes- tj sage, the warship entered Manzanll -J In harbor at 4 o'clock in the after- .1 nmn on April 2. kt 4:80 the teleg- 2 raphers lefl their posts, carrying: thell instruments with them, and at E .jj o'clock the bombardment began The telegram says the wharves and Jj adjoining buildings were destroyed. 1 A dispatch from Oaxaca says Am rncan marines landed at Saiina Chit. 1 rorlay after the American commnndfi J had threatened to open fire on the port in case Hip Mexican officials of-y of-y fered resbtance. I rvshlngron I) April 29 Seem J rary Itanlels said tonight he did no! I helivr the Mexico City report thai I Manzanillo had been homlarded by J ;in American warship or that marines , had heen landed at Saiina Cruz. H- "! s.Tid hp was in constant communlcar J tion with Hear Admiral Howard 1 whose Inst report was that all was ,1 quiet on the Pacific roast. Ji The Sn;:h Dakota, the first of the I big cruise re to f south reached Ma-4 Ma-4 ;aflan. much further up the coast.1 jt on today. The gunboat Annapo-I Annapo-I lis i3 the only ar vessel reported I at I i riM Cnii and she carries no marl ma-rl rlnes, The Japanese cruiser Izumo is nt H .mi hor in the liarbor at Manzanillo -.1 The cruiser Raleigh was due to arrlvp i ;jj it Manzanillo today, and thp Den- ver is at Saiina Cruz The Denver il carries no marines, according to OMf A department Officials. Secretary Pan ' ipls late tonight telegraphed Admiral .Jj Howard the Mexico City reports, ask- 3 inz for an Immediate rcpl |