HIS BACK TO THE WALL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 7

HIS BACK TO THE WALL

HUERTA'S LAST BID FOR 3 POWER J i PREPARING f 0 LEAVE THE l CAPITAL ' ; WITH LOYAL TROOPS i ' By Tclceraph—Pxcm Aeeseiatlon—Conyrisht ■. Washington, May 13. t General -Hiierta, it is -understood, is . preparing to leave- the capital with loyal 3 troops, and will mak-s a last etaitd si ; Puobla, midway between Mexico Civ:' r and Vera Crass. Sttch is reported to r bo tho statement made by Mr. O'Shaaighnessy, ex-American Charge 3 d'Affaires, recently from Mexico- City, 3 During a conference with President . Wilson, Mr. Q'SJiaughnessy reported ] that Mexicans had shot an insane i- American soldier Darned Parks outsido . Vera Cruz, and afterwards burned the 3 body. I ' The United States Secretary for War ' , (llr. Garrison) demands that -General . *_■ Maps, the I'etleral commander, shall eS-. , plain Parks's fate. DESPERATE BATTLE AT TAMPiCO. r HUERTA'S TSOO.PS DEFEATED. (Rec. May 14, 9.55 p.m.) Washington, May 14. The rebels (Constitutionalists) en-eou-n----tered a desperate resistant before they captured Tampieo. B«ivy firing cont tinues around the city, and it is believed that the Federals arc fighting a rearguard action. The Constitutionalists hold the rnilj roads between Tiisipfco and Monterey. The losses afo not known. ' The State Department at 'Washington understands- that ■ the- Federals evacuated Tampion, vmhh to withstand tho fury pf tie Gopstitßtioualists' attack. SPIES IN MEXICO 6ITY, HOERTA'S DOWNFALL PIEDICfBB "Times" aid Sydco* "Sun" Scrvifcee, : w London, May 13. special oafrospoitdent of "Tho i Times" with the Ajuericnn fleet at Vera. - Cruz visited Mexico City, and was aft rested as a, spy, hut iater was liberated. 1 Ho lias reported that there tire spies - everywhere., and that stnrHtmry arrests are frocruent. Foreign residents, ho says, anticipate tho downfall of Huerta through a local ) revolution, or his defeat by Villa, unless ho is previously assassinated, A BRITISH DISPATCH. (Ike. Slay 14, 11.20 p.m.) t . London, May 14. .Tho "Sta-ndard" states -that Cabinet is considering'■the. terms of a dispatch " on the Mexican situation. It is lytdcr- _ stood that Sir Edward (key (Secretary I of State for Foreign Affairs) will indicate a lino of policy to minimise further bloodshed in Mexico. Ho is not hopeful of the results of South American mediation. ' IN TERROR OF VILLA. PRIESTS FtEEiNG FROM MEXICO , oily. "Tiaics" end Sydney "Sun" Birricee. (Rec. May 14, 6.20 pan;) Mexipo City, May 13, An exodus af pri&ets, fearing Villa's murderous threats, has co-iiimettced. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES, AT LYING-IJT»STATb"vIBW Of PElp AMERICAN SAtLOtS. ' CROWD FIGHTfTFOE PLAGES, ' (Roc. Maty 14, 9.65 p.m.) j ' Washington*,. Ittay lai i During the lying-in-state of the two. seamen who were killed ift tho naval J action at Vera Cms, crowds of people filled tho hall at Philadelphia, and r fought for pkces to view the bodies. Many of tho women fainted, and two men wero seriously injured. The- in*juries to on© of ti)o tivb will probably prove fatal. !