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WAR, SAYS GONZALES
IF U. S. INTERVIEWS


aid DR.. Foro. "Carranza Ia a bandit.
A little while ago he ordered ten villa
generals shot. One OF them was only
wounded and lay writhing on the ground.
Here. let me wing him. said the First
Chief. and snatched a rifle from a SOL
dier and shot the prisoner dead. with
Huerta in Texas villa is the man Of
the hour"
Other passengers agreed with DR.. Foro
about villa and said that a month ago
William James, an American salesman
In Mexico city, raised n fund OF SIS. 900
Tor the northern leader among Ameri-
can and English residents.
The Mexico left Vera Cruz fifteen
days ago after having touched at Tam
pico and Progreso. She touched also
at Havana Her cargo consisted Of
hemp. coffee and general merchandise.
Capt. c. II. O'Keefe said the voyage was
uneventful. The Mexico intercepted a
wireless message from an American
warshlp a few days ago.
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Threatens TO seize Wines.

villa boldly announced that unless all
mines In northern Mexico were worked
they would be confscated. This was to
force mine owners to contribute to MS
power. for. II they worked the mines, he
had them cornered In freight charges
over the railroad he had stolen. or in the
export duties and taxes he could levy {;
and II they did not work them he would
take the mines for himself He put fur
Their restrictions against the mine own
ers, one of the most notable being an ar
hitrary order that they pay their men in
silver or sold. and not in the villa Gov
eminent script. This amounted to the
population by the villa Government OF
its own currency, which, siugularly
enough, stood at the ratio of "l6 to 1"
In American money At the time the
writer was in Villaland.
Now this move of villa toward tho aC-
QUESTION Of the northern Mexico mines
proved 10 he extremely distasteful 90
certain members of the Madero family.
They viewed the drift with alarm.
for they themselves owned a smelter
Mt Toireon. II il significant that they
Immediately afterward speedcd $500, 600
worth Of bullion out of Mexico by the
way of Laredo. This was in the clos
lfR udNS OF May. Inc American Jug
genheims also had been operating their
two great sm,'ters. one at Aguascali-
entes and the other at Chihuahua. under
a special Arrangement with villa. and
the hulk Of the shipments passing north
through Juarez and FL Paso have been
from their plants.
All through northern Mexico 7 found
small stores with owners" In charge
who kne" nothing of their stock. such
A. remained on the shelves. lnvestiga-
tion revealed hat they were poems VINO
had been placed there by one or an
other of Villas su5-chiefs after the
rightful owners. generally Spaniards.
had been killed or run out of the coun-
try.
AS Long as the foodstuns in these
pirated stores lasted none; was not
needed by Villa and his associates 10
buy edlbles for his army in the field
further south. For IL developed that the
new owners" put in charge of these
stores. We're undo. instructions to honor
AL orders for the army, hut after n
time the foodstuffs in the seized stores
were exhausted, and only hardware and
the non-cdiblcS remained in the stock .
then went up the cry OF starvation
which found its echo IN WASHINGTON.
Villa discovered. to his intense chagrln,
that he had 10 start buying food SUP
plies in the United States for his army
After the seizure and consumption of
millions of dollars worth of fire., COM
misSary the outlook was anything but
pleasant. Still he began these pur-
chases early in 1915. FL Paso and
other American towns over the line
liked the idea.
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POLICE SEEK MISSING WIFE,
search Also for I5-year-OId Girl
Who Has Disn ppeared,

The police are looking for Mrs. Louise
Hendrick of 81 Saratoga avenue, Brook
Ign. who disappeared from her home las
Monday, Her husband received an
anonymous letter yesterday from Phila-
delphia, stating that she was there. He
left last night TO make an investigation.
Another alarm has been sent out in
an endesvor 10 lind hfteen-year-old Lucy
Komter of sos Lavonia avenue Brook
lyn. Mrs. Komter believes the girl left
to get married, Nothing has been heard
from her since last Wednesday.
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same Mexican before its military conn
mander. Thence issued an order that
unless the unfortunate contribute a like
amount to the CarranZa Government,
the only true onstitutionalis institu-
ton" he. would be sent to the wall
with a firing squad. Why has all this
not been written before?
The writer has seen a sheet OF paper
upon which we're figured out prospective
profits of 49, 900. 900 for villa and his
crowd from the anticipated 1915 cotton
crop. Bear in mind. villa has physical
control of a dozen cotton PLANTATIONS u
cotton compress plant At Torreon n
the one railroad to the border. His ad-
visers say that the crop can be mar
keted In the United States without any
difficulty. No labor costs or upkeep
charges will have to be paid. for the
poor poems in the field get their wages
in the scrip Villas Government runs
of n printing press in Chihuahua. ana
the plantations cost villa nothing. cav
Ing In one or two instances where future
trouble was feared and ether n small
consideration was paid or a partnership
arrangement was forced upon the right
flu owner.
In the same villa and his as
sociates are working aroun TO a physi-
cal possession of all the mining properties
OF northern Mexica. They have already
confscated the Mexican owned proper
ties OF the Naica Mining Company on the
branch Dad out from the city Of Parral
in me state OF Chihuahua. Besides. they
have taken over valuable coal properties
in the adjoining state of Coahnila also
y smclter n ar Santa Roealia, a town in
Chihuahua, calling the last acquisition
the Government smelter."
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SAYS VILLA is WILLING.
Hut senior Urauidi IL Certain Car
rnnxa VIII Resist.

villa will approve OF the Pan-Ameri-
can note sent to Mexican leaders, and
will gladly join in the proposed confer
ence, according to Francisco Urquidi.
Villas Consul-General and spokesman
here.
But Senior urquidi says that C%arranza
will undoubtedly resist strongly any
suggestions made except In his own
camp, and will refuse to rave anything
to do with the proposed conference. II
Secretary Lansing n his associates
among the note signers are patient they
may prevail upon %Carranza, Senior Ur-
uuidi believes, and II they do Mexico
will become peaceful.
~ speak as "A resident OF the United
states, as "A Mexican, and Az IA revolu-
ZIONIST" said Senior Urquidi last night.
LAS Il resident of this country l am
glad TO see something friendly done to
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WILSON'S DEFENCE WEEK.
President to Talk with War and
Navy Heads To-day.

W~AsHlNGroN, Aug. l5,-Preesident
Wilson will confer tomorrow with Sec
'etdry Daniels and Admiral Benson.
,hief If the Bureau OF Operations. on
he Navy Departments recommended
ions Tor strengthening the national de-
ence, which have been formulated by
he general board.
The conference will open a week
ghich the President intends to devote
argely to laying the foundations Of his
%istional defence policy. Tomorrow
fternoon or Tuesday he will take up
with Secretary of War Garrison the
Var Departments report on the condi-
ion Of the army and the recommended
ions for reorganization and increases
rhich experts of the Department have
'een working upon all summer.
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GET SHIP DATA FOR WILSON.
conf-rees VIII Report "a Presi.
dent ON south American Trade.

ATIASTIc CITY. n. j., Aug. 15,-lnter-
rate Commerce Commissioner McChord,
~ COoksey, Of the stan OF Secretary
ihr Treasury McA 100 Mr., Boole. cx-
~r' Of the Interstate Commerce Com
MISSION, and Mr., sweet OF the Depart
heAl Of Commerce closci a conference
uHfe to-day after considering the re-
lue"l e President Wilson for the com
''i''ou of statistics for his Information
y to the available vessels for the South
'm'rlcan trade.
Ai'', two days discussion the con-
're's compiled the tatistics desired
au VIII submit a report TO the Presi-
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THIRST may COST HIM LIFE.
Ht when He Complains of scsnt
Bcer ut Bakers Union.

Fred Spade complained because there
wasn't more beer at a meeting of The
Bakers Union Of Bronx county IN
Bauer's Hall, 10th street and Webster
avenue, last night. Adolf Fishtler. 2s,
of lib Washington avenue. the COM
mitteeman to whom Spade made his
complaint. knocked him down after an
argument. Spade was taken to the
Lebanon Hospital in a serious condition.
He may die.
When Fishtler saw that Spade lay
Unconscious on the fioor OF the hail de-
spite the efforts to revive him made by
DR.. Rosenfeld Of Lebanon Hospital he
ran out into the street. He had gone
several blocks when Patrolman Brandt
of the fremont avenue station overlook
him. lie was locked up on a charge
Of assault.
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The foNo,oinD article on the Mer-
icdn situation is the second OF a
series bv Raymond q. Carroll.
Dh'ch tcW appear daily IN THE
SUN. Mr.. Carroll has made a
thorough investigation Of the situd-
o as regards the revolution. its
cause and result thus far. and the
eject Of the policy OF the Wilson
Administration on the ciril ,car.
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CIVILIAN TROOPS E
THEIR "HOLIDAY" WORK
Many Voluntarily Pass Sunday Cleaning Rifles Pre-.
paratory to First Practice To-day-Others Engage
in Map Making at Plattsburg Camp.

PLArrsBuRG. n. Y. Aug. 1.-THE be-
ginning Of the second week OF the bust
ness mems camp Of military instruction
In this city finds all Of the men In ex-
cellent physical condition. and. II possi-
BILE. more eager for their work than on
the day Of the opening Of the camp last
Tuesday.
This is shown in the fact that al
though this was announced as a day Of
rest and the men were not obliged to
perform duty Of any kind. not even
mounting guard. which was done by the
regulars. hundreds OF the men we're at
voluntary duty from early morning until
the middle OF the afternoon, when rain
compelled a cessation Of all work Such
members OF the camp as desired II were
permitted to remain out OF camp from
reveille to taps, and many Of them took
this opportunity to visit Montreal and
other points OF interest in this section.
Mayor Mitchell. spent the day at the
Hotel Champlain, but Dudley Field NAL
one, Collector of the Port OF New York.
and former Charge d'A.ffairs O~'Shaugh-
messy we're at the camp throughout the
day. Both spent the greater, part OF
the afternoon cleaning n oiling their
xnes preparatory to the preliminary
rife practice which opens on the rife
range at Plattsburg Barracks to-mor-
low morning, when the students Of mill
tary life and tactics will for the first
time be permitted to use ball ammuni-
ton in their army rifles. and when they
will learn what the kick of the rifle
means.
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going about the camp with ba0daged
fingers. the result OF some military duty
they were called upon 90 perform ana
in the execution of which they received
slight injuries.
Pclice Commissioner Woods OF New
York. who arrived at the camp yester-
day. will remain until Tuesday. During
this afternoon he made a tour OF the
camp In company with former Commas
sioner Waldo and Police Lieutenant Me
Nulty. Major-GeH. Wood. vino left the
camp with Col. tsllai ger for Governors
Island last might. VII! return Tuesday.
ard the exact date " the visit OF Presi-
dent Wilson and the members II his
Cabinet will then. in all probability. be
positively known.
The army aeroplane. which has been
looked for for several days. will arrive
tomorrow. Ii is coming by express,
and the car I'm which II was shipped was
wrecked at Albany. necessitating its
transfer to mother car, thus causing a
delay In It's arrival. 1t Is not the inten-
ton of the military authorities to at
tempt to teach any part of the mode of
army aviation to the student soldiers,
but Aviator Millman. who has been al
the camp for several days. will make
flights and demonstrate the practical
working OF the machine TO such of the
students as are interested In the sub
feet.
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Carrenza, at the start, saw the ad'
vantage Of possessing himself or the
harder towns, and, aside from me OPP
they afforded for securing the
Instruments OF war. there was the cash
10 he obtained from the custom house
receipts. His first grip fell upon Piedrts
Negras once called Ciudad Porrrlo
MAJ hut renamed by Madero. This
Mexican town is opposite EAGLE Fass,
TOY. Other frontier cities to follow
we're Nogales, Naco, Aqua Prieta'
Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and hnallN
Juarez, which passed into Villas hanis
on November Is, 1918.
Nobody is exactly sure who supplies
the intelligence directing VIVA. ! Wonlu
say that there is not one nut man
cunning minds around him lie If the
raIlying centre for a half dozen or more
financial adventurers men out to make
f~ortunes throug hidden ties with tho
..x-hanhit. They know that M crime
is 100 revolving for villa. and AT first
,beir greatest task was to hold him IN
check. pleasing him with new luxuries
and sensations while they riked in the
nrotts Finally villa himself saw what
was going on, and decided TO take q
nersonal hand In the game, having de-
, eloped saving Characteristlcs-viz, his
brother Hivplito's trips to distant points
in the United States, once with "l4o,-
ooO again with $4,000. The Villas
arc reported to have more than $4,000
600 gold in safety deposit vaults out
side OF Mexico.
The first victims of villa were the
wealthy Mexicans who had been identt-
eed with the old order-to al a hact-
enda owner a cientiico or follower OF
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Union Pacific
SaltLake Route
The Cool, Comfortable,
Northern Route
to Both Expeditions

Mohave and Palisade Canyons are
equally charming. These features place
this route among the foremost Of scen-
ically beautiful routes 20 Southern CAL
ifornia. Motto mention the Echo, Weber
and Ogden Canyons and Great Salt
Lake, earlier in the journey and the
glorious orange groves through which
you pass for miles as you come down
from the San Rernardino Mountains
into southern California, when you
travel on either Of the two famous trains,
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According to the statement OF one OF
the ranking officers of the camp. not
fewer thar twenty men OF national I'M
portance are at the camp under assumed
names, the identity OF whom the regular
army officers refuse to disclose. To-day
many of these men spent their Sunday
AT the sighting grounds or map making,
Some OF these men. who had never be-
fore known harder manual labor than
the signing OF their names, are to-day
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Figures of Other ships.

When ! wrote on June % I had no
1gures available except those OF the
Michigan. Since then I have acquired
hr figures of the individual spring prac-
zee OF the rest of the fleet and I rea-
ili2e that many a battleship has a far
worse record than the Michigan"
Mr. G~ardner's letter shows hat In the
spring practice the ~battleships made this
a. follows:
New York, IL out OF 10 shots fred.
Texas, s out OF 20.
Delaware. ) out OF 20.
Arkansas, . out of 81.
Wyoming. II out OF 81.
Utah, s out Of 10.
Florida. . out OF 20.
Kansas, \ out OF IS.
Michigan. 3 u OF So.
Virginia. 3 out Of IS.
Rhode Island. s out of rs.
Nebraska. 3 out OF IS.
New Jersey. 1 out Of IS.
Louisiana, 2 out OF IS.
Vermont, 2 out of rs.
Minnesota, . out of IS.
New Hampshire. ] out of 2S.
Continuing his letter Mr.. Gardner
wrote:
The above compilation was prepared
"r me 70 show the hits actually allowed
~ the chief umpire. The table is sub
lect 10 a variation on account OF the re-
Esiou of the scores. which is subse-
'nertly made not by the chief umpire
Who actually witnessed the firing but
oy the Navy Department
Tie scores made by battleships in tar
yFt practice are supposed to be a secret,
nd much interest IL being shown here
y the fact that the figures apparently
iayA been given to Mr.. Gardner by
LO"menUdy in authority.
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The Sunday dinner of the students
was far superior to that of the regular
soldier. While the business and profess
sional men are learning the technical
work Of the soldier they are not called
upon to live Oh the same class of
chow" as the food is called by the men
In the regular army. Thu dinners OF the
campers to-day consisted of chicken. a
variety Of vegetables, bread, butter. cof-
fee and two or three kinds OF dessert.
There Is but little OF the corned beef
and cabbage diet served to the rockies.
and they are not called upon to wash
their own dishes, as were the college
students, but this will come when they
start or their weeks practice march
during the latter part of the ami
period.
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ny RAYMOND q. CARROLL.

Mexico to-day is a section OF the earth
upon which the varnish OF clyilization-
'nih coated at best-has been completely
knocked m a country overrun by muir
derous men with knives and guns. who
mask their cyimes under the claim that
they are Corstitutionailsts. Some cal.
themselves Viilista. others Zapatista and
others ~Carranzista. but let us write them
down for what they truly are-bandits.
thieves. assassins. violators OF defence
less women, men who ravage their own
country week in and week out. never
once raising "A sincere voice for civiliza-
ton, without a single honest suggestion
for peace.
When kept in order by a strong CEN
tral governments, m st Of the peors and
some or the Indians were quiet, %inoffen-
sive working people. of meagre wants and
light hearts. Mexico. before the upris-
ing, was a country OF increasing pros
perity. We might chronicle the steadily
improving influence upon the MexiCans
OF q foreign born resident population OF
100000 from forty or more civilized
countries. OF whom $1,000 were Ameri-
cans We might write honestly. with
pride, OF foreign investments-actual.
~ AitH Tis''''''"'N'
In Mexican properties. such as mires and
sme'ters, banks. railroads, rational
bonds. ranches. farms. cotton mills. soap
factories. stores. oil tanks and retineries,
live stock, orchards, power and lighting
plants. In watch total INVESTMENTS of
more than $1,000. 900, 900 came from the
United States alone.
All this and more have been practi-
cally sweep; away in "A national carnival
Of murder and theft. which. at It's in
ception. In March, 1918. was supported,
possibly through INSTRUMENTATION, by the
American State Department in its set
policy that the Constituencies leaders
really stood for the betterment of the
republic.
Before the Constituencies began
their considerations there were about 1O.-
zoe land owners in Mexico. Carranza
who has read Spanish trarslations OF
T. clish histories OF France. pointed out
to villa, Zapata. Lucio Bianco. Pablo
Gonzalez. Obrcgon. Benjamin Hi, May.
turena and other ~ his chiefs and sub
chiefs thai when the French people be
h. AIDED their king In the Reign OF Ter
fur about $4,000 a~ristocrats owned al
the land in France. whereas whet
Napoleon set up his empire more than a
half million people owned land In
France.
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IhlS doesn Sound much like the %
PER cent. accuracy We have heard so
much about
In u letter addressed to Mr.. Gardner
m August 3 Secretary Daniels wrote
that the commander of the battleship
Michigan had made "a protest against
Mr. Gardner's comparison of the Mich
igan'S shooting this year with that of
1911 ~ being misleading and calculated
10 give an incorrect impression of the
present efficiency OF his ship Secretary
Daniels went on to say that conditions
in 1911 and 1915 were different that
the range In 1915 was 1000 yards longer
and the charge heavier.
Tn 1911. wrote Secretary Daniels.
the Michigan stood No. l in gunnery
among the battleships. and while the
results OF this years practice have not
vet been completely computed. her stand
ing will again probably be high. I as
sure you that every effort IL being made
to maintain and improve the gunnery OF
our navy. and the circulation through
the medium Of the press of information
Incomplete n based on gossip. and
which tends to discredit the navy. him
ders rather than helps their Efforts"
In hts reply. dated August 10. Mr..
Gardner said that he had no desire to be
unfair to the personnel Of the Michi-
gan.
II told" said Mr.. Gardner, how the
Michigan had fallen from her record
u 10 hits out of - shots in 1911 down
10 3 hits out OF 81 shots In 1915. ac-
;ording to current Notifying gossip.
You tell me that the figures are not
entirely correct. That Is a fact. The
actual record is even more alarming
han ] supposed. | fnd that this spring,
nstead NJ firing only - shots. the Mich
gan fired no less han Sc shots and out
u that large number Of shots made only
i've actual hits.
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says Carrsnxa LcsaIi,ed Theft.

Carrarza declared that what had
been lone In Frarce could he done in
Mexico, ard the word was passed down
the line TO the ignorant. wretchedly clad
peors. Small wonder they called Car
ranz, the 'firs chief" He was the
FIRST of his class In Mexico To advocate
the legalizing OF theft and the "anton
murder OF al pr testants
II took about a year for villa 10 brf'g
the C~arranza model UP to the maximum
of villa efficiency. Probably nowhere IN
the world Is b~rigaUdage conducted upon
a more scientific basis than In uNe cities
towns and acreage of northern MEXICO
dominated by "Pancho' and his ass)-
GATES Since October 10. 1914, villa mas
his part OF the looting lnde-
pendertly OF Carranza.
one might enumerate the larcenies OF
villa indefinitely. They are un"eileN-
,bIv daring and extensive. The writer
tnIk.d with dozens ~ MeNicans OF the
he,,er class. who related in detail ac-
counts of atrocities accompanying inc
transfer of properties from riRhtful own
.rs 1, bandit control, which sho" y
complete and utter disregard by VIVA
and his band of all the lights OF me
and property.
/, was the early seizure or the nor
der towns along the American froh'ier
that opened the way for the importa-
ton o, arms and ammunition FOR the
constttutionalists. Smuggling or arms
hecame the chief industry OF the South'
west roIncidental with the advent OF the
nresent Administr ation in Washington
and its frank avowal ~ support IL any
faction hostile to Huerta.
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