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[New Westminster Daily News]
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��� * Volume 9, Nuir>^ M NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., WEpNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22,1914. Price Five Cents, .s'-> ,< A KILLED; TWENTY WOUNDED Mexicai. eported to Have Lost 200 Killed as Result of Resisting Advance of American Forces. U. S. in Possession of Customs Houses and Part of Vera Cruz. Salute to American Flag no Longer Satisfactory Reparation���Aoolog/ and Guarantee Demanded. ��� complisbed without loss of American llVM, Pour Americans, blue-jackets and : marlnet, were killed by the tire of . the Mexican lOldleri, and twenty fell wounded. The Mexican loss is not known, but it is believed to have 1 been heavy. Tim waterfront, the customs house and all Important piers, indudinsr thoia under the terminal works from which extend the railroads to the 1 capital, have been occupied. All the territory around the American con- I sulate Is strongly patrolled, and de- -Marines and I tachments hold other sections of the bluejacket* from the American navy | cU*he ^xIcm commander. General today took the customs house and a l Qu.tavo Maas, offered a stubborn re- large section of Vera Cruz with a loss | sistance EVIDENCE HEARD STRIKE BATTLE A NEW INDUSTRY IN DAMAGE CASE IN COIORADO FOR BURNABY MISS ATKINSON GREATLY SURPRISED Suit of Carl von Macken.on Against j Women and Children Reported Killed Application Made for Water Rights Surrey Municipality for $5000 Damages. Washington, April 21. of four killed and -0 wounded. The loss of the Mexican garrison was not officially known here tonight but was estimated at 200 killed. This was the first step in the program of reprisal by the United States against j Evidence was adduced all yesterday before the honorable Justice Clement In the action for $5000 damages by Carl von Mackenson, proprietor of by the State Trocpc at Ludlow. Trinidad. Colo.. April IL -With seven identified dead in Trinidad morgues and a list of 18 missing and j Preparatory to Erection of Building. Still another industry is going to locate in I). I.. 161, Burnaby, according mand of the United States warehips, ___^^^^^^^^^��������^���������������. . i prefaced his occupation of the port the Huerta government for the arrest,| by a demaMd ��rougD the American consul. W, W, Canada, for ltB stir- and for many hours there was fighting in the streets. Towards nightfall it was reported that the main body of the federal garrison wa.s I t'1R thoroughfare through the in retreat to the westward. gence of the nunicipality. Maas Refused Demand. The defence was a general denial, Hear Admiral Fletcher, in com-1 ��nd that the Jericho road is not a farm, Port Kells, against Surrey municipality. The suit arose out of an accident which befell the plaintiff on December 14 last year, by which he broke two ribs and sustained a chill and nervous shock on the Jericho road, and it was alleged to have been caused by the dangerous condition of negli- reported dead, the toll of yesterday's I yesterday All papers connected with _^^^_^^^^^^^^^^^^_ ,... i . ... , ' the location of the Shull Bhingle mill, the Black, White and Red poultry | battle between state troops and the bordering the north arm of the river, strikers at and near Ludlow will prob-, were flxed cn yeBterday and Just as ably reach 25. Among those reported | soon ag Mr fuck the degigner| can missing are four women and U chil- j prepare p,ans actuai construction dren, who are believed to have been1 ^^^^^^ of American bluejackets at Tamplco and other offences "against the rights and dignity of the United States." It was the first clash between the forces of the United States and Mexico since the revolution broke out in the southern republic in 1910, and gave the YYa#>i!ngton administration a Mexfcan problem. t Although fighting had not ceased at a late hour tonight, Hear Admiral Kletcher had warned the federal commander that he would use the big guns of the American fleet if his men did not stop firing. The American forces have orders only to fire to defend themselves. The United States intends to take no offensive steps for the present. Salute Not Sufficient. The salute of the flag which Huerta render. General Maas promptly de clined to accede to '.his demand and shortly afterward ten whale boats were sent off from the side of the transport Prairie loaded with marines. These boats effected a landing in the neighborhood of the customs house before noon and a few minutes later Captain William II. Hush, of the battleship Florida, who was in command of the operations ashore, brought his flag in. Captain Hush's men had already taken up their positions bered 150 blue-jackets _��� . .. . ^ u ,_, L j . i work will commence. Mr. Tucker Is suffocated! by the lire which destroy- engaged In preparing all details ed the strikers' tents at the cloBe of' onH ���,���������������������,!������ ���,,��������� ,���. .���_.���! yesterday's fight. Earlier In the day they had hidden in the trenches in the colony to escape the rifle and machine gun fire that raked the tents. and also comparing prices for material and machinery. Just what the new industry will be was not divulged by the owners but a _ ,. -. . , . . . , . , deputation left for Washington state The list of known injured consists of yesterday for the purpoSP of lavin all three enlHlpra ulm a-opo hpniiirht ��,�� * . ^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^^ a road in the true sense of the term but merely a trail, and that with rea- j sonable ca.'o ib been avoided. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^_, K. J. McDougall, with Mr. Cameron. lneir llvea of Vancouver, appeared for the plaintiff, and nv*. G. McQuarrie, assisted by G. Cassaiv, tepresented Surrey. Where the Accident Happened. , three soldiers who were brought to Trinidad tonight. Trinidad is horror-stricken tonight accident might have i ^ reports of the murder of women, children and non-combatants who lost in yesterday's battle and in the fire which followed. "It is horrible," said John McLennan, president of District No. 15. United Mine Workers of America, who is Plaintiff "stated that" th7%'ccTdent j I^^AV^S h_!^q.u���arte":!.'Th^ i when'ev details of the location of the property before the head of the American firm. Arrangements are being made with Burnaby municipality for a plentiful supply of water for use In the boilers and also for fire protection. A 6-inch main runs along the River road which borders the property, and assurance has been given by the municipal council that an extension will be made The Honor of Being Elected May Queen Entirely Unexpected. May Day Committee Holds Important Meeting���Arrangements Being Completed for Grand Event. occurred at a point about 100 yards from the boundary line between Surrey and Langley. There was half a mile of the Jericho road in Surrey. He was driving a democrat with two horses attached, from Langley, very , slowly when suddenly the front right They num- wheel of his wagon sunk and threw from the | him into the pool on the road. The to information obtained by The News | A more su/prised girl lived not in the. city tlian Miff Eva Atkinson, May Quein elect, yesterday morning wnen her parents, Mr. and Mtb. George At- klnsen. 319 Hospital stree". notified her that she had been elected May Queen. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson am. early risire but The News got there ahead of them and eftcr congratulating eaeh other on the success of their daughter to the' Sighest honor at the disposal of Royal City jcfiool girlB, immed.iato'y awakened Miss Eva to announce the glad new: "I could haTdly believe it," said the May Queen ele:t. to The News last night. "While I knew my name was on the ballot lists I had no idea whatever that such luck could come my way." Before the morning was far advanced the Atkinson home was besieged ^^^^^^^^^_^^^^___ i by the friends of Miss Eva and the er necessary. I | ^^^ wpre cmiirht lilte rats In n Iran" he ""
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