The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-02-12
AN IN ITAT..o,I j
DIPLOMAT Corps
GENERAL VIL-, TENDS lNVI.
TkTiUN FOR LECATl~NS TO
MOVE 70 HIS TERRITORY.
CRR2hnzA MEN TOASSEnILE
Chief Or6ers Commanders of Old Es-
Enlistment to the City Of Mexico.
Carranza's Troops Move
Up Rio Grande.

diplomatic corps at the City of Mexico
20 come to any city in the control Of
ais forces was formally extended
tuesday by General Villa through his
epres. native at Washington, En-
ique l.. Liorente, who conferred at
ength with Secretary Bryan.
No go1osnition of the Villa govern
nent was asked, but the diplomats
we're p pmised that if they came with
n the region under its jurisdiction
very courtesy and convenience would
oe shown them. While Secretary
3ryan made no comment, it is under
stood that the invitation will be trans
mitted informally through the state
department TO the Brazilian minister
It the City of Mexico for consideration
Of the diplomats generally.
There have been reports that, owing
TO friction with Carranza authorities,
some of the diplomats were consider
ing leaving the City of Mexico, and
Carranla is understood to have in
yited them to go to Vera Cruz, his
capital
Adyices concerning military activi-
ties in Mexico, received by the state
department, told of the defeat of Car
rama forces at Monterey.
General Carranza has ordered all
the former officers of the old military
establishment to report in the City
of MEXICO.
Brigadier General Evans, comman-
der of the Ninth Infantry camp at La
redo, Texas, was Tuesday informed by
the United States military patrol sta
toned at San Ignacio, forty miles
down the river, that a Carranza army
force Of 400 men had passed there
coming to Nuevo Laredo on its way
to Piedras Negras. The soldiery left
Matamoros recently.
NueYO Laredo is hourly expecting
reinforCements, and there is much un-
.est there as result of disquieting re-
ports of an advancing Villa army.
Washington. General Villas an
nOuncement of his resumption of the
executive power" in Mexico was con-
firmed in official reports to the state
department Monday from George C.
Carothers, American agent with Villa,
and by Enrique G. Llorente, represen-
tative at Washington of General Villa.
Villa announced that his action had
been rendered necessary by reason
Of the temporary inability of the SOW
ereign convention to communicate
freely with the northern states Of the
republic"
Elizo Arredondo, head of the Car
rama agency, Monday gave out the
following telegram from Laredo: Re
ported Monterey has been taken by
the constitutionalist forces. No de-
tails of the fighting. The fall of Mon
terey has been expected for several
days and the fact that Geographic
communication between Ell Paso and
Monterey has been suspended tends to
confirm the report that Monterey has
been captured"
Fighting was reported to be going
on near Monterey Saturday in state
department adyices.
Reports to the Villa agency at Wash
ington announced that General An
geles had REFUSED the attack upon
Monterey and inflicted gree losses
upon the Carranza forces he5 ed by
General MacloVio Herrera.
It was said that Angeles men allow
ed the attackers to approach near to
their trenches and then deli eIud a
murderous fire.
Colonel Jose Santos was listed as
among the killed, and Colonl7 Ply
naldo Cara among the staasIy
wounded.
Duval West, former Unite s ates
attorney at San Antoine, ~oa
with Secretary Bryan N
one Of those under CO.
the administration to
American government in l,f
Secretary Bryan Mono
that representations be
leo City in of la
real, who is to ha sen,
fenced 10 death by Ger sou
Villareal was a raembe. uranaa S
cabinet and after the s-llientes
convention became a p. or OF the
Gutierrez government.
General Carranza in a agram Mon
day from Vera Cruz deni Il tuaU ne is
sued any orders for the execution of
four American officials of the South
ern Pacific railroad of Mexico in So
nora. 1t was said that if any such
orders had been issued it had been
done by the local Sonora officials of
the Carranza government.
Neutrality-suspicious. Of General We
ndstiano Carranza to establish Vera
cruz as the capital of Mexico and COM
pei the diplomatic corps in the City
OF Mexico to go there were discussed
Saturday by officials and foreign dip
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