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Show oo ft AMERICANS ARE H HELD FOR RANSOM 1 Forty Amerlccns have been seized I md hold for ransom at Tamplco, Mex- I Icq In the meantime there Is a lack I information as to what has bap-j ft pened behind a rigid censorship which I lft being maintained at Tamplco. De-1 ft tails are not to be had and so thej ft mencan government has made no I move In an effort to get the Ameri- j ft tana released except to communicate ft itli the Obregon government ft What Washington should demand is I ihat the 15,000 pesos of ransom be; ft paid by the Obregon government ow-1 I! mg to the inability of the Mexicans to I protect the lives and property of American: Thla may be the beginning of anoth-I anoth-I er period of upset in the republic to i he south of us. Apparently Mexico continues to be the victim of bandits. Alter ten years of civil war, the peo-I peo-I pie are too restless to settle down and a percentage of them have a strong impulse to get a livelihood by becom ing raiders. If the Obregon government falls to with alertness and vigor, Ameri-I Ameri-I .an warships may be ordered to Tpui-m Tpui-m pico, and then one false move may see a repetition of the event of a few years ago when the armed forces of the United States made n demonstration demonstra-tion at Vera Cruz, In an eftort to command respect for the Stars and Stripes. |