Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-03-15
Foreigners WILL BE KILLED
TITS HIS BELIEF THAT MExlcANS
SOON WILL SLAY MANY
ALIENS
A BAD FEELING IN EXISTENCE
ESPECIALLY IN THE NElGHBOR
HOOD OF CHIHUAHUA is
TROUBLE LIKELY

chihuahua, Mex, March 15.-(via
Ell Paso. )-Although General Pascual
Orozco is maintaining order here the
city. in respect to it's foreign inter
ests, is but a ghost of its former thriv-
ing self. But a handful of foreigners
remain. Practically every woman
and child has been sent to the safety
of American soil. The exodus OF
Mexicans has been great. A year ago
few Americans thought it necessary
to send out even the women and chill
dren.
Last year foreigners generally were
opposed to talk of Intervention. BY
word and deed they used every effort
to discourage the spread of such SEN
timent. No foreigner in Mexico dares
to allow himself to be quoted for
publication, but their comment is the
same. 1t does not matter now who
becomes president of Mexico, they de-
clare. Whether it is Madero, Diaz,
Trevino, Creel or De La Barra, the
result will be continued turmoil. All
ways there will be dissatisfied
leaders to start new revolts, and
hordes of poems, to whom the cam
paign with it's accompanying excite
ment and loot is comparative luxury,
to follow them, is the general way
of analyzing the situation.
1T is only a question of how many
lives must be sacrificed and how many
millions of dollars lost before foreign
sentiment has aroused to the pitch
where Intervention will be demand
ed by influence too strong to resist"
said one American whose words ac-
curately reflected the sentiments of
scores of others with whom the Asso
ciated Press correspondent talked.
Apparently the situation at pres
ent has not reached that stage" the
American continued. Property loss
already has run into the millions, but
foreigners have not yet been slain
They have suffered insult and annoy
ance, and been compelled to flee
the country, but they escaped with
their lives. A year ago feeling be-
tween Mexicans and foreigners was
comparatively friendly. This cannot
be said now. The foreigners are
weary of constant financial loss, of
being looted and listening to insults
which they dare not resent. There
are few of us who would not abandon
the country for good and all if it
could be done without financial ruin.
1.-THE closing of the vast properties
of the American Smelling and Refin-
ing company at Velardina is merely
foretaste of what must come. Here
was a thriving city of $4,000 persons
all dependent upon the operation OF
the three mines, the 81 kilometers ef
railroad and the smelter of the COM
pany. They must eat Most of the
men and boys will join any band of
insurrectos that promises good. This
is particularly the case this year, as
practically no crops were raised last
year after the Madero revolution.
"It is doubtful If supplies can reach
other properties Of the smelling COM
pany for long. Driblets are reaching
them infrequently. Should all of them
close, they will have to with the con-
tinuance of present conditions; $4,000
men, on whose work 250.000 persons
depend for a livelihood, will be
thrown out of work. The same con
ditions apply to other mining inter-
ests, to the vast oil properties an1
other enterprises"
A force of state rurales. at Morris,
hamlet in the Rayon district, sur
rendered without resistance yester-
day to semi-independent rebel band
under Macario Salazar, according to a
telegram from the latter today.