Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — U. S. FLAG IS DEFILED [ARTICLE]

U. S. FLAG IS DEFILED

KAPATA TROOPS TRAMPLED EMBLEM IN MEXICO CITY. Act Followed Murder of John B. McManus—Bryan Admits Emblem Was Torn From House. Washington, March 26. —The state department, according to Secretary Bryan, has made to the Mexico government demand of reparation for the Indignities to the American flag-which was pulled down on the house of John McManus when he was murdered end his house looted by Zapatistas two weeks ago. The facts in the case of McManqs and the flag, the state department says, are known to the White House, although there has never been an official statement that this government demanded reparation for the insult to the flag. The statements of General Palafox, Zapata’s minister for foreign affairs, on the subject of McManus have revealed only that he had expressed regret for the death of McManus and promised that the murderers would be apprehended and punished. It is certain that so far there has been no apology , from the Zapatista government for the insult to the flag. Reports to the state department told of an impending battle for the possession of Matamoros, the port across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Tex., which apparently is to be the scene of the first real fight ot the JVilla campaign against the east coast or Mexico Rear Admiral Caperton, commanding the American fleet in Mexican waters, ordered the battleship Georgia from Vera Cruz to Progreso, where there have been local troubles.