The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
'SP PAN|havo MUST LEAVE TORREON ON !. ORDER OF GEN. VILLA Exodus to Fl PasO Prob
 ably Will Begin
 Today
THOUGHT THEY WERE
 AIDING HIS ENEMIES.
Promises Immunity to All Who Prove They Have Not Been Politically Active-Mexican Hatred of
 Spaniard Traditional

Torreon, Mex, April 4.-(Nia Fl Paso, Tex, April 5)--Gen. Francisco Villa to- day ordered that the 600 Spaniards of this city be deported. He issued in structions that trains be provided i'm. mediately and that the exodus to Fl Paso should begin tomorrow. Their property will be confiscated, temper arily at least
 It is the tragedy of Chihuahua over again and is said to express the deep rooted suspicion and even hatred with which the native Mexican, and partie- ularly the peon. looks on the Spaniard.
 Villa expelled the dons from Chi huahua four months ago and isnce then repeatedly has said other Spaniards must get out of Mexico. Ills abiding conviction that they were working as one man against the revolution found frequent expression while he was in Juarez, when he asserted he would eN- ecute everyone that he found in Tor reon.
 The Spanish government was around and Washington descended on the con- stitutionalist chiefs with words of warning and admonition
 Villa promised that Spaniards inno- cent of political activity should not be harmed. This was official, but in talk iiAS NlAn ltpOIltIS anu ITltlluS IL Was said his temper frequently betrayed him into the most tragic threats. Some of those constantly associated with the rebel leader said no did not expect to find many Spaniards who would de ; serve his clemency.
 All Held Guilty
 Their expulsion, it is said. is taken to indicate that all are to be held guilty until innocence Is proved. Villa promised he would investigate close iy the conduct of each Spaniard and that in due course those found to have lent no aid to the enemy would be al lowed to remain.
 To establish their innocence, while no1 represented before the investiga- tors, with etheilt cases in the hands ai Ia hostile court and Themselves in s foreign land, it is said, will be an al most hopeless task.
 The order was received in tragic silence, followed by passionate out bursts of pleading and lament. say persons who We're present. All assert ed that they had remained neutral so far as they could but with the mill itary government in the hands of the federals they Were compelled at times to render such aid as was demanded the use of houses and corrals, for instance, and the forced contribution Of money and food.
 To have refused. they said. would have meant death or at least impris- onment, but Villa said he was inclined to believe there was little reluctance in the aid and comfort they extended to his enemies. He is said to resent the fact that they did not leave the city when he announced that 1t would be we'll for them to do so.
 Mexican Hatred Traditional Mexican hatred of the Spaniard the people say. is a tradition handed down from the days of the conquest In Mex ico the ranch overseer. the small shop keeper. the money lender---in short, tho butcher, the baker and candlesticll maker, of Mexican life--has been a Spaniard and Is alleged to have used his superior intelligence to the disad- vantage of the natives.
 Other foreigners, it Is said. are less subject to resentment. They, for the most part, it Is pointed out, have been the heads of great enterprises which brought money into the country and which were managed from afar. They were viewed more as abstract powers. rather than as individuals students of the country say. Even their agents on the ground generally appeared as dis pensers of work and money and new comforts.
 Mexicans say 1t has been the Span iard with whom the native has some l in direct contact, largely because they 1 speak the same language and to him rightly or wrongly they attribute most of the expressions of their daily life.
 Soap Used as Money | A story told here is said to be illus | trative oi conditions. The Spanish own CT of big ranch in the days of Pres 1 ident Profirio Diaz conducted a soap factory on the ranch this industry be ing common among the big ranchers who thus utilize waste products. He ran a general store and paid hIs men l in soap, which could be turned In at the store for the necessaries of life. II Is related that the soap was soft and that it melted or was wasted in a way that materially decreased it's pur- chasing power. when weighed in at the store against other commodities The ignorant peons had heard vaguely of President Diaz and eventually they
 mounted their horses and rode 700 miies l to the city of Mexico. A house servant
 would have turned them away. 1t is re- lated. save that the President happened to see them through a window. He or dered them admitted and heard the story in great wrath His verdict against the | oppressor was that all back wages, ire. spective of the soap currency. should be | paid them and other reforms instituted on penalty of conflscation of the ranch Soldiers Express Satisfaction | It is from this class that Villas army | is largely recruited and the soldiers ex- | pressed their satisfaction at the expulsion order
 | During the fighting the Spaniards tool  | (C0ntinued on Page NluO1