Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — MARINES GO TO MEXICO [ARTICLE]

MARINES GO TO MEXICO

3,C00 ARE READY FOR LANDING Z PURPOSES. Lind and O’Shaughnessy Meet at Vera Cruz —OH Firm Said to Have Financed Madero Revolt. Washington, Jan. 9. —Secretary Daniels of the navy department ordered 400 American marines in the Panama canal zone to join the warships on patrol off the east coast of Mexico. Although' he explained that the transfer was for the benefit of the men’s health, many persons believed it had a deeper meaning. The accession of this new force will give the American admiral in charge of the fleet a total of 3,000 men for landing in case of emergency. Vera Cruz, Jan. 9. Nelson O’Shaughnessy, charge d’affaires of the American embassy in Mexico City, accompanied by his wife, arrived for a conference with John Lind. Pass Christian, Miss., Jan. 9. President Wilson said that Mr. Lind had spoken in the most cordial terms of Charge O’Shaughnessy at the LindWilson conference aboard the cruiser Chester It is believed the visit of Charles O’Shaughnessy to Mr. Lind at Vera Cruz was an outgrowth of the conference on the Chester. Whatever ideas the president and Mr. Lind may have exchanged bearing on the Mexican situation will be transmitted to Mr. O’Shaughnessy. Ojinaga. Mex., Jan. 9.—Returning to Ojlnaga f --n a reconnoitering trip ten miles inland, Gen. Pascual Orozco, commander of federal volunteers, said he had encountered only the outposts of the rebel army. New York. Jan. 9.—A Washington dispatch to the New York World says: “The state department has on file the reports of investigations showing that the Waters-Pierce Oil company aided in financing the revolution of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., against Porfirio Diaz. These reports were made by secret service agents in the spring of 1911 and by Henry Lane Wilson, then American ambassador to Mexico. “The entrance of the Waters-Pierce Oil company into the affairs of Madero -came through Capt. S. G. Hopkins, an attorney of Washington. At the time the Maderos engaged him as their representative, Captain Hopkins was counsel for H. Clay Pierce, president of the Waters Pierce Oil company. It is reported that the money paid to Madero amounted to mtJre than $250,000."