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Show MARINES TO ASSIST THEIR CDUNTRYiVIEN CRUISERS ORDERED TO ASSIST AMERICANS ATTACKED BY ' INDIANS IN YAQUI VALLEY. It Is Expected That Americans In thr Interior Who May be In Danger Will Find Their Way to Coast and Board Ship. Washington. Secretary Daniels has ordered the cruiser New Orleans from Manzanillo to Guaymas. Mexico, to Join the cruiser Raleigh in rendering any relief possible to the colony o( Americans attacked by Indians in the Yaqui valley, 125 miles inland. Unofficial advices from Mexicc stated that Governor Maytorena, the Villa commander in Sonora, already had dispatched a considerable body' ol troops to the scene and it is hoped that their arrival -will have relieved the colonists before the New Orleans reaches Guaymas. j Secretary Daniels said he had In- j structed Admiral Howard, command ing the Pacific fleet, to make an in- 1 vestlgation and report on the condl lions in the Yaqul valley on the baslf ; of tho press reports that several ' Americans had been killed there. j I'nder general naval rules, the com ' manders of the Raleigh and the New i Oarleans would not hesitate to land I bluejackets and marines at any port j for the protection of Americans ot other foreigners In an emergency. The I secretary said, however, that no orders for sending nn armed party Inland I would be given by the department un j til Admiral Howard bad reported the) necessity of such action. At present the warships are sent tc Guaymas in the expectation that any Americans in the Interior who may be In danger will lind their way to the i coast, whore they may be taken1 aboard ship. , |
