Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progress of the Mexican Civil War (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.) during the past week favored the Rebels. ¶ The Rebel blockade of Tampico, after being protested by the U. S. State Department, was lifted or modified so that now the Rebels do nothing more offensive than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico...
Meanwhile Cabinet meetings in Washington strove to find a course that would avoid all shoals and reefs for the ship of state. Rebel gunboats had blockaded Tampico, 300 miles from Vera Cruz, and threatened to hold up American shipping going to and from the oil fields. After the Cabinet meetings, Secretary Hughes consulted with representatives of the Petroleum Producers in Mexico...
Later the Richmond was ordered to Tampico to raise the Rebel blockade...
There were, however, two incidents of capital importance; one on the Government side, which can be termed the Texas Affair, and one on the Rebel side which can be named the Tampico Affair...
Tampico Affair. General Adolfo de la Huerta, Rebel chief, decided to blockade the important post of Tampico on the east coast, about 200 miles north of Vera Cruz, headquarters of the Rebels. He issued the following decree...