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Show MEXICO Ai U. 8. Mil MUTUAL APOLOGIES WA DA LA JAR A, Nov. 10 For three hour today a niol. of several hundred of the lower class, incited by inflammatory speeches of .students, paraded the streets of this city.' imitating rioters in the national capital yesterday in a manifestation mrainst Americans, and intended s protest against the Ruck Springs (Texas) lynching. C onsideraMe property was damag-ed, Imt so fnr ns known no lives were lost. The city practically is under martial law. and it is believed the riot is well'mider control. l'oljce detachments and the Tenth federal cavalry are (.'uardmp; the American consulate, where Consul Samuel K. Majrill was threatened threat-ened with iolenee. Four squadrons of the same troops are patrolling the American residence section, ami downtown the police are guarding the American Amer-ican business houses. General Clemento Vilazenor, commander of the Fourth federal zone, together with state and government troops, anticipated the trouble early by colling out the entire armed forces. In the absence of (Jovcrnor Matruil Ahumada, who is ill, Man- Hoi Cuesta (Jallardo, who will be governor next year, .spent the day and night mid res-sing the different groups of men who are bent on making trouble for Americans. The better class of citizens arc keeping keep-ing close to their homes. A widows were broken by the mob in a doen American business busi-ness places. Tlie financial loss will be considerable. Commercial houses in the center of the town arc barricaded with shutters. said ho had no information from hi Kovcrninont roiardlnp; the antl-Atnerl-can demonstration In tho City of Mexico. Mex-ico. The govern merits aro in this fo-sitlon fo-sitlon . If 111 state ilfpart nient hero flmls that Ambassador Wilson's representations representa-tions arc Justified, a polite request must lie made on Mexico lor an explanation ex-planation expicswinjr recrel for the nV-monstrritlnn anil also suitable reparation rep-aration it iin duniago has been suffered suf-fered by Americans. On the other han!. the Mexican Koverntnent rnu6t look to the state department de-partment for a tlmllnr expression and rp.irai ifui in the case of Antonio Rodriguez, the .Mexican who was reported re-ported to have W-n burned at the Make by a mob of Texans at Rock Springs, Texas. NO DANGER OF WAR. GUTHRIE. Okla.. Nov. 10 Senator M. H. Berazaluce of Coahllla. Mexico, who Is attending the federal court here, said tonlcht that the feellnK against Anierlcans which has resulted tn mob demonstrations In Mexico is not general. "I do not believe there Is any danger dan-ger of war 1'tween the two countries," coun-tries," he said. "Hefore this time there has never bevn a lynching In Mexico Of courRe, our people did not like the lynchlnc or a Mexican at Rock Springs, Texas, and the mob element ele-ment was aroused by your yellow papers pa-pers which printed sensational stories about It '' Concerning the tearing up of an American flag by a group of students. Senor Dcrazaluce said: "The American stores keep paper flags for sale, and It wn probably onu of these that was torn up, and not a Hag that an Arneilcan was flying out of loyalty to his country.' ooooooooooooooo O MEXICO CITY. Nov. 10 O O Repressive measures adopted O O bv tho Mexican authorities pre- O O vented a repetition today of O O yesterday's scenes In this city O O and lesulted In a day of com- O O paratlve tranquility. O O An attempt made by the O O demonstrators to gather late o O this afternoon In the neichbor- O O hood of the new National the- O O a tor w as discouraged by the O O mounted police, who kept the O O crowds moving. O O The foreign office has as- O O sured Ambassador "Wilson that O O there will be no repetition of O O the rioting. O O Strict orders have been Is- O O sued to the police. Minister O O Creel said, to pretent by vigor- O O ous measures. If necessary, O O gatherings in the streets. O O Visits were exchanged bo- O O tween Minister Creel and the O O ambassador during the day, O O and a verbal reply was clvc-n O O by the former to Mr. Wilson s O O urgent message of yesterday O O concerning tho Insult to tho O O United States flag and Ameri- Oi O con citizens. What the nature O O of tht. reply was, Mr Wilson oj O declined to say, but intimated O, O that the same, when put Into o O writing and formally transmit- O O ted, would show a proper atM- Ol O tude on the part of the Mcxl- O O can government. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Assurances also were given lhat several newspapers whose utterances have Incited the demonstrations which developed into riots, will be suppressed. sup-pressed. One of the latter, El Tais, today printed a suggestion for a boycott boy-cott throughout lhj republic. Another, An-other, El Diarlo del Hogar, published n cartoon depicting the Mexican people peo-ple clubbing Uncle Sam, while in the background was pictured the burning of Rodriguez at Rock Springs, Texas These papers are of limited circulation circula-tion and ordinarily wield but small influence. Congratulate Wilson. Ambassador Wilson was warmly congratulated by the business men an dothers of the American colony personally and by letter today for the aggressive stand be had taken in the crisis. Reports which have reached Mexico City from the United States that an Httempt had been mae on the life of tho ambassador are without foundation. founda-tion. Fears that with the coming of darkness dark-ness tonight violence tvould break out out again pioved to be groundless. The presence of numerous squads of mounted police, with carbines slung across their backs, who patrolled the business streets until late Into the night, prevented anything In the nature na-ture of disorder. Students in Jail. While several hundred students waited In the school of Jurisprudence, some of their comrades called upon Governor Landra to request the release re-lease of those of their number who were arrested last night. Governor Landa is quoted as having told the students' committee that their classmates who were jailed last nght had acted like hoodlums and were Incommunicado. "You may not even ppeak to them." he aald. "1 have notified the deans of each school that any attempt to make a demonstration of any k)nd will be put down energetically. The pollco have orders to shoot If their first command com-mand Is not obeyed Knox Deplores Situation. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 Secretary Secre-tary Knox, while deploring the situation situa-tion in Mexico. say it was not representative repre-sentative of the real American and Mexican people. In a formal stato-rucni stato-rucni tonight he says: "The manifestations of resentment towards Anuiican reported frotu Mexico Is the cause of deep regTet to the executive government, and equally equal-ly so. 1 am sur-. to the American people. At no time hav the governments govern-ments and peoples of the two conn tries sustained towards each other clrscr an.l more cordiui relations, pre- : dicated on common purposes and sympathies, sym-pathies, than now 'It Is mot unfortunate that the brutal crlru in our country, of which n Mexican was the victim, should be made the excuse for a demonstration of hostility towards Americans in Mexico. It Is a satisfaction to believe thai such demonstrations find littlo hyinpathv In iPe body of the Mexican people and none in the Mexican government. gov-ernment. "I am sure the Mexican government will be as prompt to put down all hostile hos-tile di-monsi rations against Americans Ameri-cans In Mexico, and to punish those engaged In them, as tbla government will be prompt to press for the pun-ii-hmcnl of person guilty of crimes against cltlxens of Mexico residing in this country." At a late hour tonight it was announced an-nounced at tho Mexican ombusy that no word of the troubles In tho Mexican Mexi-can capital had been received from that government. Mexican Ambassador Talks. WASHINGTON. Now 10 Ambassador Ambas-sador Wilson De I -a Derra called at in state department about noon, hut |