The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-03
TAFT WARNS
 AMERICANS
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION ADVISES THEM TO KEEP ALL
 HANDS OFF IN MEXICO.
Ambassador Wilson Warns All Ameri. can Citizens to Leave Mexico at Once and Settle for Dam
 ages Afterwards.

l Washington, March 2.-The gravity of the situation in Mexico caused President Taft today to issue a proc lamation virtually warning American citizens to refrain from entering that country and, those now residents there to leave when conditions threat en to become intolerable. The de cison to issue such a warning was reached at a special meeting of the cabinet.
 The proclamation was augmented iby telegram addressed by the state department to Ambassador Wilson, in the City of Mexico. Ine ambassa- dor was instructed to inform Ameri- cans in peril there to withdraw across the border. leaving their effects In the care of the nearest United States consul Copies of the telegram were sent also to all consular agents.
 The presidents utteranee, it was explained, was in no sense a recog- hilton of the revolutionary movement in the sister republic to the south. Neither was it to be looked upon as declaration of neutrality. It was declared the utterance was solely a warning to Americans to avoid any thing that might savor of partisanship in the existing state of affairs.
 The proclamation, which is inter- preted further as an expression of this country's intention to avoid by every possible means a chance for intervention, is as follows:
 Whereas, serious disturbances and forcibie resistant to the authorities of the established government exist in certain portions of Mexico; and, Whereas. under these conditions it is the duty of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States to refrain from the commission of acts prohibited by the law thereto relating and subversiye of the tran quility of a country with which the United States is at peace; and,
 Whereas, the laws of the United States prohibit under such circum- stances all persons within and sub ject to their jurisdiction from taking part contrary to said laws in any such disturbances adversely to such established government; and,
 Whereas, by express enactment if two or more persons conspire to com init an offense against the United States, any act of one conspirator to effect the object of such conspiracy renders all the conspirators liable to fine and imprisonment; and,
 "Whereas, there is reason to be- lieve that citizens of the United States and others within their juris- diction fail to apprehend the meaning and operation of the applicable laws of the United States as an author itatively Interpreted and may be mis- led into participation in transactions which are violations of said laws, and which will render them liable to the severe penalties provided for such violations;
 Now, therefore, in recognition of the laws governing and controllnI in such matters as well as in dis charge of the obligations of the Unit. ed States toward friendly country and as measure of precaution, and to the end that citizens of the Unit ed States and all others within their Jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal for feiture and penalties.
 q. William Howard Taft, president of the Unit( itates of America. do hereby admohish all citizens and ntn- CT persons to abstain from every yio- lation of the laws hereinbefore re- lated to, and do hereby warn them all violations of such laws will be Vigorously prosecuted; and I do here by enjoin all officers of the United States charged with the execution of such laws the utmost diligence in preventing violations therecs, and iH bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same: aud, l finally. I do hereby give notice that all persons owing allegiance to the United States who may take rarr in the disturbances now existins n i Mexico. 's in the necessary 6e-
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