Second Edition. First Shots Fired.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1, 22 April 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. First Shots Fired.

CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ. REBEL FORCES JOIN HUERTA. (Received 1.40 p.m.) New York, April 21. It is currently reported from Turcdo, Texas, that the rebels and the Huertan forces in Northern Mexico are likely to join forces against the Americans. Overtures to that effect have already been opened. The Mexicans are reported to be planting mines in Vera Cruz harbor. V Vera Cruz, April 21. Lionel Carden, K.C.M.G. (British Minister at Mexico), has arrived hero and has counselled moderation. He declared that the likelihood of immediate action was over-estimated. Washington, April 21. Mr Byran (Secretary of State), conferred with the Foreign Ambassadors, explaining the United States action in full detail. He is understood to have informed them it was advisable to order their countrymen to leave Mexico. Later, it was officially announced that the Americans had captured Vera Cruz, four being killed and twenty wounded, , . j Vera Cruz is the chief seaport of Mexico, benig situated on the Gulf of Mexico, about. 100 miles from the capital, Mexjco City. The town fronts the sea in a semicircle, is enclosed with « low wall) and is defended by two redoubts. The harbor is merely an open roadstead, but a mole was built in 1875. It was bombarded and taken by the United States army in 1847, surrendered to the allied British, French and Spanish squadrons in 1861, and was restored to Mexico in 1867.