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Show FLETCHER STOPS H6HTATTAMPIG0 ORDERS REBELS AND FEDERALS TO CEASE FIGHTING, AND ORDER IS OBEYED. Threatens to Open Upon the Combatants Com-batants With the Guns of the Gunboat Gun-boat Wheeling if His Order is Not Obeyed. Mexico City. Rear Admiral Fletcher, Fletch-er, commander of the American naval forces in Mexican waters, on Friday ordered the rebels and federals fighting fight-ing at Tampico to cease firing, threatening threat-ening to open upon them with the guns of the gunboat Wheeling if his order were not obeyed. Both sides complied with the order. . This information is contained in a dispatch received by Sir Lionel Garden, Gar-den, the British ambassador, from Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Crad-dock Crad-dock of the British cruiser Berwick, which is lying off Tampico. The federals hold the center of the town of Tampico and the water front. Rear Admiral Fletcher has ordered or-dered foreigners to take refuge on board ships or to congregate on the water front, where they will be under the protection of his guns. |