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Show THE MEXICAN SITUATION. According to the latest dispatches from the City of Mexico, it looks as though the diplomatic relations between that southern Latin republic and the United States may be severed immediately, unless Mexico ig forthcoming with an abject apology for the insult that has been hoap'ed upon the American flag. Mexico is likewise demanding reparation for the burning at the stake of a citizen of that country who brutally murdered an American Amer-ican woman at Rock Springs, Texas, on the second day of the present pres-ent month. The situation at the present time looks critical. The Mexicans continue their rioting in the Mexican capital; insults in-sults to the American flag and assaults upon Americans in that country coun-try continue . It is morally certain that they will continue until strong measures are brought to bear to quash them. In the demonstration against the Americans that occurred in that city on Wednesday evening prominent officials of the government govern-ment followed the mob in automobiles through the streets. Soldiers also followed the mob and witnessed the tearing down of an American Amer-ican flag that was floating over a candy store, the trampling of it under footfi the spitting upon it, and lastly the tearing of it into shreds. The American flag, since the days of 76, has been insulted once or twice, but the sturdy Yankee government made the in3ultera remember re-member to respect the Star Spangled Banner forever and a day. |