Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-23
Cananza Condemns Taking Of
Vera Cruz by Wilson Order
Declares Our Invasion May Bring Mexican War Which He
Hoped Avoid-Says Consttutonasts Are the Ones to
Punish Hueta for ndgnities Suffered by Other Nations

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The text
of the message sent to Secretary of
State William j. Bryan by General
V. Carran2a, head of the Constitu-
tionalists in Mexico, through United
States Consul j. C. carothers, at Chi
huahua, yesterday, is as follows:
The following is the text of the Car
rama message to the State Depart
ment. 1t is dated Chihuahua:
Carranza's Message.
United States Consul j. C. Caroth-
ers:
I'm answer to the message of Mr..
Secretary Bryan, which was COM
municated to me through you, please
transmit to the said Mr. Bryan the
following note addressed to Mr.. Pres
ident Wilson,
Awaiting the action of the Ameri-
can Senate to your eXcellency's mes
sage, directed to said body. caused
by the lamentable incident which oc-
CURED between a crew in a whale
boat of the cruiser Dolphin and the
soldiers of the ursurper Huerta, GER
tain acts of hostility have been ex-
eeuted by the naVal forces under com
mand of Admiral Fletcher at the port
of Vera Cruz and in the face of this
violation of the national sovereignty
which the Constitutionalist govern
ment did not expect from a govern
ment which had reiterated its desire
to maintain peace with the Mexican
people. | comply with the duty of
patriotism in directing this note to
YOU with a view of eXhauSting all
honorable means before two friendly
nations sever the pacific relations
that still unite them. The Mexican
nation the real people of Mexico
have not recognized as its executive
a man who had pretended to launch
a blemish on its national integrity,
drowning in blood its free institu-
tions.
Promises to Punish Huerta.
1.-THE acts of the usurper Hperta
and his accomplices do not signify
legitimate acts of severe gnty. They
do not constitute real public functions
Of interior and exterior relations and
much less do they represent the senti-
ments of the Mexican nation, which
are of confraternity towards the
American people.
1.-The lack of representative charac..
ter of General Victoriano Huerta, US
concerning the relations or Mexico
with the United States, as we'll as
with the Argentine Republic, Chile,
Brazil and Cuba, has been clearly
established with justifiable attitude
of these nations, who have refused
to recognize the usurper IN this way,
lending a valuable moral support to
the cause / represent
"Victoriano Huerta Is a culprit who
is amenabIe to the ConstitutiOnalist
government, today the only one, under
the abnormal circumstances of our
nation, which represents national
sovereignty in accord with article 12S
of the political constitution of Mex
leo. The Illegal acts committed by
the usurper Huerta and his partisans.
and those which they may perpetrate,
be they of an international character
which recently occurred at the port OF
Tampico, or of a domestic character,
shall be tried and punished with In
fiexibility and promptness by the tri-
bunals of the Constitutionalist gov
ernment.
Calls Invasion "Violation."
"The individual acts of Huerta
never will be sufficient to involve the
Mexican nation in a disastrous war
with the United States, because there
is no solidarity whatsoever between
tie so-called government of Victori-
ano Huerta and the Mexican nation,