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Show UNITED STATES OFTEN INSULTED President Issues Official State-- State-- ment of Mexican Situation. MANY DERELICTIONS American Government Singled Out for Manifestations of Ill-will and Contempt. Washington, April 15. The following follow-ing official statement was issued today to-day as representing the views of President Wilson and'th'e "administration: "administra-tion: "In discussions in official circles In Washington, of tho present Mexican Mexi-can situation in Mexico, the unpleasant unpleas-ant incident at Tampico must not be thought of alone. For some time past the de facto government of Mex ico has seemed to think mere apologies apolo-gies sufficient when the rights of American citizens or the dignity of the government of the United States were involved and hud apparently made no attempt at cither reparation or the effective correction of the serious derelictions of Its civil and military officers. Uniformed Orderly Arrested. "Immediately after the incident at Tampico an orderly from one of tho ships of the United States, in tho harbor har-bor of Vera Cruz, who had been sent ashore to the postofflce for the ship's mail, and who was In uniform and who had the official mail bag on his back, was arrested and put Into jail by the local authorities. He was subsequently sub-sequently released and a nominal punishment Inflicted on the officer who had arrested him, but it was significant sig-nificant that an orderly from the fleet of the United States was picked out from the many persons constantly constant-ly going ashore on various errands, from the various ships in the harbor, representing several nations. "Most serious of all, the officials In charge of the telegraph office at Mexico City presumed to withhold an official dispatch of the government of the Unlied Slates to its embassy at Mexico City, until it should have been sent to the censor and his permission per-mission received to deliver It. and gave the dispatch Into the hands of the charge d'affaires of tho United States only on his personal and emphatic em-phatic demand, he having In the meantime learned through other channels chan-nels that a dispatch had beon sent him which ho had not received. U. S. Only Nation Insulted. "It cannot but strike any one who has watched tho course of events In Mexico as significant that untoward incidents such as theso have not occurred oc-curred in any case where representatives representa-tives of other governments were concerned, con-cerned, but only In dealings with representatives rep-resentatives of the United States and that thero has been no occasion for other governments to call attention to such matters or to ask for apologies. apolo-gies. "Theso repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of tho United States, offcuses not duplicated with rogard to the representatives of other governments, have necessarily maae the Impression that the government of the United States was singled out for manifestations of Ill-will and contempt. con-tempt. Must Be Change of Attitude. "The authorities of the state department de-partment feel confident that when the seriousness nnd the cumulative effect of these Incidents is made evident evi-dent to the government of Mexico, that government will see the propriety pro-priety and the necessity of giving such evidences of its desire to repudiate re-pudiate and correct these things sa will bo not only satisfactory to the government of the United States, but also an evidence to the rest of thu world as an entire change of attitude. atti-tude. "There can be no loss to tho dignity dig-nity of the de facto government in Mexico In recognizing in the fullest degree the claims of a great sovereign sov-ereign government to Its resuoct." |