Marines Frighten Vera Cruz.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 18, 1913:
Local Authorities Have a Scare Over a Group of Laborers.
    VERA CRUZ, Feb. 17.— Three American battleships, the Georgia, Vermont, and Nebraska, are now here. They were visited to-day by the civic authorities.
    Great alarm was caused here last night when the military and police officials mistook thirty laborers from an electric plant for disguised marines.
    Two hundred American refugees have reached Vera Cruz, and many others are on the way. W. W. Canada, the American Consul, has organized a committee and collected funds and supplies for their maintenance.
    The Federal garrison has been increased to 1,600.