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Show I MEXICANS CONTINUE TO SHOOT AMERICANS President Woodrov. Wilson made no reference In his message of Tues-la Tues-la to the withdrawal of American troops from Vera Cruz. The head of the nation made no reference to the problems in Mexico. Has Mr. Wilaon wearied of watchful waiting and reached the conclusion that the whole Mexico embroglio is something beyond be-yond his understanding? On April 9, 1914, an officer and men from the Dolphin were arrested at Tair.plco by Mexicans. The next day Admiral Mayo demanded an apology salute of 21 guns, which was refused by Huerta On April 14, the entire Atlantic fleet tailed for Mexican Mex-ican waters. Then President Wilson asked congress for authority to use armed forces, and next day American troops landed and begun fighting at Vera Cruz. Then General Fuueton .id army regulars arrived on the scene and remained until November 2" when Vera Crui was evacuated. So far the 21 gnns have not been fired and today no greater respect exists for the United Stales than when Huerta defied this government. H present the warring forces are engaged In the amusing pastime of firing across the border at Naco, killing kill-ing Americans and laughing at our threats to put n stop to this disre sped For American rights. When will the President of the United States wake up to the fact :hot to deal successfully with the Mexican a strong hand must be used and every warning must be translated Into strenuous action'' SINKING OF THE SQUADRON OF ADMIRAL VON SPEE. On November 1, a German squadron made up of the Scharnhorat, Qnel-senau, Qnel-senau, Lelpzie. Nurnberp and Dresden, fought a battle off tho ooaat nf Chile, in which the British cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth were sunk and the Glasgow was injured, with n loss of 1500 men. That German naval vlo tory evidently stirred Admiral Fisher of the British fleet, and caused to he sent to South Atlantic waters a very powerful squadron. Not only were ships directed to the south, but i squadron made for the Atlantic 'n-tranee 'n-tranee to the Panama canal and was dp watch at that point when the German Ger-man raiders were sighted off ' the Falkland Island on the morning of December S. t the same time n Rritich-Japanese squadron was moving Jown the coast of Chili There was 10 escape for the ships under Admiral on Spee That the loss of the Good Hope and Monmouth stung the British naval men is shown by the sweeping campaign cam-paign which they inaugurated in order to avenge the death of Admiral Christopher Chris-topher Cradock and his men The death knell for Admiral Von Spee was sounded off the Falkland Islands, 300 miles to the northeast of the Straits of Magellan. The German Ger-man ships had traveled about 2000 miles since the engagement five Weeks ago. Part of that time must have been spent In the German rendezvous ren-dezvous at Juan Fernandez the island nf Alexander Selkirk, the Scotch 9ailor who was shipwrecked and remained four years before being rescued Had they made greater speed, the British fleet from the home waters might not have intercepted them What the plans of Admiral Von Spec were are not disclosed He may have been on his way to break through the British - patrol which has the German fleet bottled up. although this would be a most desperate undertaking un-dertaking The Indications are that he aimed to either menace British shipping along the Atlantic coast of South America or, proceeding to the east, was once more to enter the Indian In-dian Ocean. Either an overwhelming British squadron was brought into action or the British displayed the same remarkable re-markable skill as was shown by the Germans in the naval conflict off Chile. With a loss of only three men killed, Admiral Von Spee and 1800 men were sent to the bottom Our guess is that Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Fred-erick Sturdee had one or more of England's Eng-land's mighty battleships of the Dreadnought type, which outranged and destroyed the Schnrnhorst and Grheisenau before those cruisers could do any damage. As a naval achievement, achieve-ment, a victory of that nature would count as nothing in determining the relative merits 0f the two warring forces for-ces mnn for man and gun for gun. and yet this Is n most important triumph tri-umph for the allies, as it almost completely com-pletely clears the seas of German armed ships, the only cruiser still unaccounted for being the Karlsruhe. l;;st reported off the coast of Brazil, busily engaged in capturing English merchantmen. |
