ENVOY TO MEXICO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21468, 17 April 1933, Page 9

ENVOY TO MEXICO

MR. DANIELS ARRIVES AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE (Received April 16, 7.5 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, April 15 Mr. Josephus Daniels, tho new United States Ambassador to Mexico, arrived in the capital to-day. The reception at the station passed off without incident. Mr. Daniels was preceded from the train by a dozen detectives and more than 200 policemen and detectives were on duty in tho station. The police disclose that an attempt was made yesterday to wreck Mr. Daniels' train. A section of rail was taken out near the town of Morales, 50 miles north of Monterey, but the fact was discovered in time. Twenty alleged Communists who were arrested for an attack on the United States Embassy on March 24 as a protest against the appointment of Mr. Josephus Daniels as Ambassador to Mexico, were ordered to be deported to the penal colony on Marias Island. Several of the Embassy windows were broken by stones, but the police had not made tho incident public. Posters calling upon all anti-Imperialists to force Mr. Daniels from Mexico appeared in the city bearing tho signatures of the members of the central committee of the Communist Party in Mexico. Others called him " the murderer of Azueta and Uribe," two Mexicans who were killed when the United States forces landed at Vera Cruz in 1914 while Mr. Daniels was Secretary of the Navy.