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£mg of i4rms Embargo 

 Commended by a Senator 



, 



s Sheppard, of Texas, Says That PresideStodkpiNto 

 Prompted by Highest Considerations of Jus- 

 tice and Humanity. 



NOT EVEN HUERTA HAS GOiAlpiMfflD 



Herald Bureau, 11 

 No. 1,502 H Street. N. W., V 

 Washington, D. C, Friday. J 

 F Morris Sheppard, democrat, of 

 vho for months has been urging 

 on of the belligerent rights of the 

 constitutionalists, to-day strongly 

 President Wilson's action in rais- 

 jmbargo on arms. 

 en General Huerta had complained 

 ring the embargo was a violation 

 orinciple of International law, he 

 le effect was to place the United 

 n an attitude of complete neu- 



ient Wilson's action in lifting the 



was prompted by the highest con- 

 ns of justice and humanity," said 

 Sheppard. "Let it be remembered 



embargo was originally imposed 

 Taft and that it had the effect of 

 [adero, who had become President 

 :o and who was even then being 



by enemies in North Mexico. 

 Jadero fell his friends and follow- 

 tme revolutionists. Their princi- 

 nghold was also North Mexico. 

 >ntion of the embargo was a dis- 

 lon against them because it de- 

 lem of practically their only avail- 

 aree of arms , and ammunition, 



Huerta, who controlled the sea- 

 uld import arms from many other 



an act which originally benefitted 

 erista cause, the cause of liberty 

 fress in Mexico, became an injury 

 iter champions, ithe followers of 

 a. As a result hundreds of 



patriots who believed with Car- 

 tnd who could not obtain arms 

 tten stand in line on a battle field 

 hot fire from the enemy, waiting 

 the arms of their soldier brethren 

 t and thus enter the fight. The 

 aists weTe compelled to fashion 

 f their cannon from the axles of 

 wheels and locomotives. As a re- 

 adreds of those who stood with 

 a for freedom and right would face 

 Jhine guns and rifles of Huerta 

 >ws and arrows as their only 

 i. 



same evident that the retention of 

 >argo was merely prolonging the 



and that the placing of the con- 

 lalists on an equal footing with 

 jponents in the matter of arms 

 iring the contest to a more rapid 



of the Mexican masses for liberty and 

 progress. His ideals are those of Wash- 

 ington, and his followers are imbued with 

 the spirit of Concord and "Valley Forge. 

 It is his ambition to conduct this revolu- 

 tion along the lines of civilized warfare 

 and to repress excesses of every kind. 

 Conditions have made it difficult at times 

 for him to do this, especially as his op- 

 ponents show his own followers no consid- 

 eration and no quarter. He should not be 

 held responsible for the acts of irrespon- 

 sible bandits, roaming at large over a vast 

 and in many instances almost inaccessible 

 territory." 



MFFL 



Miss Margaret 1 

 14# s ed in Ice 

 on F: 



ABSENCE OF 



Fir. INDICA'I 



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Opening Into Whicl 



or Been- Thrown 



Been G 



REAR ADMIRAL MAYO 

 ACTS ON SHOOTING 



Herald Bureau. 1 



No. 1,502 H Street, N. 'W„ f- 



Washington, D. C, Friday. J 



Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo has sent 

 word to the municipal authorities of Vera 

 Cruz that they must assume responsibility 

 for the shooting of his flag lieutenant, 

 Lieutenant Arthur B. Cook. A report to 

 the Navy Department confirmed the press 

 t reports of the shooting of Lieutenant Cook, 

 but said that he had not been hurt. It is 

 understood here that Rear Admiral Maya 

 meant, in his communication to the Mexi- 

 can authorities, that he would expect them 

 to prevent any recurrence of the affair. It 

 Is reported that the Vera Cruz police are 

 looking for the assailant, but Mexicans 

 here believe that there is little chance of 

 finding him. 



The State Department has been tadvised 

 that the federal lieutenant and sergeant 

 who were convicted of the murder of an 

 American, Frank Smith, were put to death 

 on February 11 by order of the military 

 court. They were shot by a detachment 

 of soldiers at the scene of the murder, 



The Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan, to- 

 day said that the European Powers had 

 been advised of the intention to lift the 

 embargo > and that the reason given was 

 that the Mexicans should be left free to 

 settle their own affairs. This information 

 was in confirmation of the press reports 

 regarding the discussion of the Mexican 

 situation in the German Reichstag yester- 

 day. It is considered an important prece- 

 dent for an American Secretary of State 

 to declare against the right of American 

 intervention in Latin America. 



[SPECIAL DESPATCH 



Harrison, N. Y., 

 hours to-night the po; 

 Coroner Alfred H. 

 county, worked in ai 

 mystery surrounding 

 Margaret Fox, forty- 

 was found dead this 

 on her farm here. Th« 

 the well, which is U 

 only two feet in diam 

 cased in ice. A hlngec 

 covers the circular 

 closed after the worm 

 pushed down the shaf:, 



The baffling aspects: 

 confronted the autho; 

 though the sides of th 

 hewn stone with raj 

 out, so that in places 

 diameter than the su ; 

 of twenty-four inchc 

 bruises on the body, 

 over the well, when oj 

 back until it rests on 



"If the woman fell . 

 foremost," said Coron.' 

 loss to know how she 

 contrived by her effoj 

 or, otherwise, if it wa' 

 to close the trap after 



Captain Andrew Mu 

 son police, who has ch. 

 gatdon, subjected sever 

 orous examination to-c 

 ing enlightening facts 

 cumstances of the won 

 Discovery of I 



Mrs. Fox, who leaves 

 at one time kept sevei 

 house, which is near 

 about a mile from the 

 Recently, however, th 



