Mexican Revolution

WASHINGTON, April 18, 1914 (UP) -- War with Mexico is almost a certainty. At 1 o'clock this afternoon officialdom has practically given up hope of a peaceful settlement of the controversy with the southern republic. The United States has sent its last word. Huerta must salute the American flag, in broad daylight, with all of the formality required by international procedure, or face the United States army and navy.

MEXICO CITY, April 21, 1914 (UP) -- The "watchful waiting" policy now prevails in Mexico City.

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1914 (UP) -- A dispatch was received at 4:30 from Consul Canada, at Vera Cruz, stating that at 2 p.m., the city was entirely quiet and all policed by American forces. His request that San Sebastian Hospital be placed at the disposal of our chief sanitary officer to-day, with navy doctors and nurses to care for Mexican wounded, was immediately granted.

VERA CRUZ, April 22, 1914 (UP) -- The American forces are in complete control of Vera Cruz. At noon to-day, after hot fighting through the streets, the city was beginning to assume a peaceful aspect.

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1914 (UP) - The White House made public to-day Admiral Fletcher's proclamation to the city of Vera Cruz, Mexico. It is as follows:

Forty Mexicans Are Slain in Battle, and Eleven Americans, Including Civilians, Are Killed, in Early Morning Battle of Columbus, New Mexico - Villa Believed to Have Led the Attack

Forty Mexicans Are Slain in Battle, and Eleven Americans, Including Civilians, Are Killed, in Early Morning Battle of Columbus, New Mexico - Villa Believed to Have Led the Attack

FIELD HEADQUARTERS AMERICAN ARMY NEAR DUBLAN, Mexico, March 30. (By motor train to Columbus, N.M., March 31.)

WASHINGTON, April 26, 1916 (UP) - Broad, actual co-operation between the Mexico government and the American Villa hunters will be the chief theme of Obregon-Scott-Funston border conference arranged for this week. The conference is to be held late this week or early next.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 20, 1916 (UP) - Not one soldier that I saw in all the armies of Europe in the past two years worried as some of these American soldiers along the edge of Mexico.

SAN PEDRO, Coahuila, Mexico, Aug. 10, 1920 (UP) - Francisco Villa, after years of banditry and defiance of both the Mexican and United States governments, has today surrendered to Mexican federal authorities and drowned his sorrows in a bottle of cognac.