The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-21
PROTECTION FOR
 ALL AMERICANS
IS DEMANDED BY UNITED STATES OF THE MEXICAN GOVERN
 MENT THROUGH WILSON.
Numerous Reports of III Treatment Has Aroused Washington to Take
 Some Action.

Washington, Dec 20.-Henry Lane Wilson, the American ambassador to Mexico, who has been here in confer ence with state department officials regarding conditions growing out ot the Mexican revolution. left today for New York, preparatory to sailing for his post without the expected note of representations which this govern ment is preparing to be sent to the Mexican government demanding pro- tection for American citizens and property.
 This action is taken as a further evidence of the intention of the ad- ministration to deal with his dell cate situation with circumspection and in a spirit of deliberation. The communication is being prepared with the greatest care at the state depart ment and will be transmitted to the American ambassador shortly after his arrival in Mexico City, early in January.
 The deliberations with which the officials are moving in the prepara- ton of the case of the United States vs Mexico, is expected to result in the production of brief that is ex- pected to be well nigh unanswerable except by a promise of prompt and adequate action on the part of the Mexican government to fairly and fully meet the demands of the United States in the matter of the protection ..f A int in
 Justification for this demand by the United States is declared to be the numerous reports to the state depart ment from every quarter to the gen era effect that conditions in Mexico have grown worse since the dispatch of Secretary Knox note of protest | last September and there has been 1 a marked increase in bTigandage and | the Kidnapping of Americans for ran som and in the levying of forced war .loans by the rebels upon American
 mines and plantations.
 Senator Stone of Missouri, who IS member of the foreign relations committee issued a statement today | in which he expressed the opinion that the present administration should leave the Mexican situation | in statu-quo until Gov. Wilson as sumes the presidency"
 | The senate subcommittee. on fore | ign relations, which has been engaged
 in Investigating conditions along the Mexican border, held a meeting to- day to afford an opportunity to George Fred Williams of Boston, to l lay before it number of letters bear ing upon the situation. Mir. Williams is president of the Los Arcos Smelt- ing and Mining company, which has extensive properties fifty miles from Toluca. state of Mexico. The letters presented were from MT. Trleger, manager of the Los Arcos company, and described a condition of continu- ed turbulence and battling with ban dits for the last four or five months MT. Trieger declared the soldiers which were sent to his assistance by the government last November had been withdrawn, leaving the import ant mining centers of Zacaulpan in which the mine and it's buildings were burned and everything ruined that could be carried away and a minins s engineer, a MT Platt, was taken pris- oner
 Afterwards Mir. Platt escaped, and
 upon information supplied by him. Treiger took the government soldiers to the scene of trouble and defeated the bandits in pitched battle. Since then, however the soldiers have been removed and the manager has been left unprotected. Trieger also alleg- ed in letter dated Nov. 12, that he had that day received from the ban dits a demand for $5,000 as tribute money. which was to have been paid within eight days. The demand was not met and up to December l. when the last letter from him was written, he was still holding his position. He tells of another mining man named Paneho Bitches, who had been taken prisoner and who was then held for S15,000 ransom.
 Mr. Williams said he intended to go to Mexico to investigate conditions. Senator Wm. Alden Smith, chairman of the subcommittee remonstrated against this course. saying that for Mir. Williams to undertake the jour ney at this time would be to risk his life because of the conditions in the section which he proposed visiting. He said, however. that if Mir. Will Hams should insist on going he would invest him with authority to make an investigation for the benefit Of the committee.