AMERICANS FLY UNION JACK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 19 April 1916, Page 7

AMERICANS FLY UNION JACK.

“ONLY FLAG THAT PROTECTS." A MEXICAN EXPERIENCE. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that on the J.9th of last month MlB Wallace Rogers, of Detroit, Michj, 1 ar--1 rived at El Paso (Texas), with her•ls- - infant, find told how she had hidden with her-.baby for two days in the sjiaffi of an’abandoned mine near Cananea from Mexican bandits, j Mrs Rogers .declared that the Mexican bandits not only had no respect tor the American flag, but it actually incited them to outrages; the only flag that offered any protection at all, she 'said, was the British flag.

| “I am bitterly ashamed to admit. ’’ she said, “hut whenever (rouble startled, we began to hunt for a ‘Union Ijack.’ It was by no means a bulletproof shield, but it was the only flag I ever saw that the Mexicans paid any deference to. There was a young Englishman who committed suicide down where I was. The Mexicans (bought he was an American, and they hurriedly dug a shallow hole, and were going to put him away without ceremony, when the officer in command overheard some oflfe say, ‘I wish wo know uhoiC his mother is, so we could notify her. She is somewhere in England, out I do not know where.’ I “The officer stopped the burial and asked if the suicide was an Englisliman. When he learned tharfi he was, he ordered the body to he preserved, and tried for four. days to get m touch with an English Consul.”