Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-04-25
MAKE HOSTAGES
Of AMERICANS
Only United States Army
Can Liberate Imprisoned
Persons.
REPORT EXECUTIONS.
REPORT EXECUTIONS.
Americans Appeal to O'shaughncssv
For Aid as He Passes Through
Mexico on His Way Home.

Chicago, April 25.-Twen1y refu-
gees, nineteen of them Americans,
and one British subject, are be-
lieved to have been executed follow
ing their capture by Huerta's men
near the 155,00O-acre plantation OF
the Motozorongo Company, of Chi
cago, in Mexico late Friday.
Secretary of State Bryan wired
DR.. Herbert A. Parkyn, of Chicago,
president of the company, today,
telling of the seizure mad probable
execution of the party. A. NJ. Turn
err, Of Chicago, is believed to be one
of the twenty shot.
Turner was sent to the plantation
by the company to order the force
to seek protection in case of trouble,
but from Bryars's message it is
thought he arrived too late.
Bryan's dispatch names majority
of the party captured.
Juarez, Mexico, April 25.-General
4 Villa will openly break with General
Carranza, supreme chief of the con-
stitutionalists, and join forces with
the United States to secure the de-
struction of Huerta, before he will
permit his men to join Carranza in
any scheme looking toward a combl-
nation with the assassin Of Ma
.3sstt1;.'t asftE1
This, declare The constivutiohallsts'
closest friends here, has been made
plain in the last twenty-four hours
/: by Villa himself.
Amigos" he said, discussing the
Carranza note, sit was a great mis-
take. But ] am only a subordinate
officer and don't believe it best that
II should give out my views yet"
The addition of the word "yet" is
believed by observers to indicate a
breach between Villa and Carranza,
if the latter! persists in his attitude
toward; the United States.
ssI: not only do not want to allow
myself to be dragged into war with.
the United States, tas AN ally of that
worthless drunkard, and assassin,
Huerta, but ]. will do all l can to
prevent, "a war" Villa continued.
Villas friends here declare the
present indications, are the United
States will not be compelled to fight
a united Mexican nation and they
Insist that. Villa is responsible. He
Insists that his. army will do as he
says and that he says they will not
fight Americans.
& Washington, April 25.-secretary
Bryan todny& notified u. Ambassador
Spring-Rice of the reported arrest
,of a British subject at orizaba.. He
was one Of twenty. foreign railroad
employees nineteen Of them .Ameri-
leans, who were reported arrested
there. Mr.. Bryan denied the report
that these pioneers had been eXecu-
ted, and stated that the Brazilian
consulate mas been appealed to IN
order, to obtain their release.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 25.-Every
interior city; Of Mexico is holding
American prisoners as hostages. With
the exception of Charge Nelson
o'Shaughnessy, every member OF the
diplomatic party arriving at Vera
Cruz from Mexico City last night,
privately expressed the opinion that
only the early arrival of troops in the
capital and the overthrow of the die
sator Haerta will save the narooned
Americans.
At almost every town between Vera
Cruz and Mexico City, Americans are
being hel5; prisoners -.
This I learned from meeting
o'shaughnessy ana his party four
miles from Vera Cruz, where they
were transferred from the :speeh2a
train furnished by Huerta to the
American train that bore them into
this city. .,
The passage Of o'Shaughnesssfs
train from the capital was ,sFamatic.
The charge, with his wife and son:
Consul General Shaaklin. and mem
bers of the embassy staff left aMexi-