Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-15
MAY BE TRIED AND ExECU1
Minister Of Finance Predicts
Preferential Treatment.
ASSERTS GIVE UP PROTECTION
Says Rebellion is Kept Up by Soldiers
of Fortune.
WASHINGTON ASKS FOR TWO MEN
state Department Requests Mexican
Government to Release Two
Prisoners Now Held at
JunreE

NEW YORK. March A-what may be
considered in effect the official Mexican
reply 10 recent representations said to have
been made by the United States asking as
liberal treatment as possible for Americans
caught bearing arms on Mexican territory
is contained In a statement made here this
afternoon by Jose Yves Limantour Next
can minister of finance In substance It
is indicated that captured American allies
OF the revolutionists viii have TO take their
chances with their Mexican companions.
The intimatlon is strong that no preferen-
tial treatment can be accorded them. This
is considered TO mean that under martial
law they might be summariy tried and
executed.
Minister Limantour. after reading all
dispatches from El Paso. Tex, outlining
the alleged activities Of Americans in
Mexico particularly in the destruction Of
railroad property and in the supply of arms
and ammunition said he could not help
being greatly annoyed by such reports.
AIIics Under Foreign Flag.
lie added that Americans who have allied
themselves with the tnsurrectionary move
ment can scarcely expect protection longer
under their own flag and IT would seem
obvious that they should take their chances
erty under foreign flag.
Mr.. Lmantour said:
"I am firmly convinced that, except for
the sympathy. financial support and actual
participation in conflicts Of Americans, the
insurrection in Chihuahua and Sonora could
not long continue. Almost daily one reads
of the part taken by Americans and they
are the only known leaders except Madero
This mornings dispatches report that a
Young American former broker in New
York. go 1t Is claimed, is leading a band
OF desperadocs along the lines OF the Ma
tlonai Railways OF Mexico and the Mexico
Northwestern rail way toward Juarez, and
that they have torn up additional stretches
OF track on these roads
II wonder IL those individuals and other
Americans who have had any sympathy, or
taken any part in that insurrection realize
tho fun sigpificance and Importance OF
thoir attitude and acts
Railroad out of Service.
AS is probably generally known. the line
OF the Mexican National railroad between
Juarez and Torreon ia practically out of
service because OF the depredauons COM
mittod by Mexican rebels and American
sympathizers. In the territory served by
that stretch Of railroad some $1,000 people
are employed in the mining industry. Prac-
deal suspension now prevails in that in
dustry In that section OF Mexico,
This means that not only are thousands
OF honest people thrown out OF employ
ment, but also that when idle they are in
cited by some of their disloyal countrymen
and by irresponsible Americans to join the
insurrectionary movement under the prom
ise OF marvellous benefits
Want Americans Released.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE state de
partment today asked the Mexican govern
meut to release Blatt and Converse, the
Americans held prisoners at Juarez, Mex
leo The government of Mexico was told
that the State departments information
showed the men had beent arrested OF
American soil
CITY or MEXICO, March H.-GeneTa
Cosio, the minister of war, and other Off
cials stated today that they had not beer
informed officially Of the capture and fat
of fifteen Americans supposed to hav,
been made prisoners by the gOvernmen
forces after the defeat of the iusurrectos
with whom the foreigners were fighting, a
Casas Grandes. They, however, expressed
the belief that there was no foundation 70
the report that the men had been sum
marily executed