The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-18
,CARRANZA IS UNABLE TO
STOP OFFICIAL LOOTING
Men Disguised as Officers Arrest Wealthy Residents
as Huertstas, Steal Their Property, and Many
Times Execute the Owners.

riching of the bandit who hath not. II
there 10 any difference between the exist.
ing administration and The others II 10
In favor Of the others. for private prop
erty rights have been more outraged
by C~arranza's iieutenants than by all
the Others.
Again 1t must be said that probably
Carranza has not profted, but It cannot
be said that he In ignorant OF conditions.
Ills position IL that Of a rider OF
IA runaway horse which he Is doins his
best to control. and without succe"s.
II was Just before the Obregon retire.
ment Of last March that there came the
raid OF the plant Of the Hldro-Electrico
del Rio do Alhmada, a fine new struc-
lure owned by French and Spanish capt.
tai. There was no political matter In
volved. nor any Of military strategy.
There was simply the desire for loot
in the raid which swept clean the plant
OF everything movable. including I'M
ported parts. and which was followed by
other raids which destroyed what could
not be taken. All hat saved tho ex-
pensive switchboard wss the accidental
drop Of u high power cable on which
one of the raiders was electrocuted
The plant cost 81 800. 900, and II suf-
fered q $250.0O0 loss. II cost 100000
pesos under the old rate. and could
have paid on that Investment 1t can
not pay on tho investment OF 2:.O0O.OOO
pesos. to which II has been trans.
formed by the collapse Of exchange.
Foreigners are naturally backward
about commenting for publication. for
they have seen many utilixations of
Article 49," a convenient section OF the
constitution giving the Government tho
faculty OF expelling n pernicious for
eigner."
Deportation Made Easy.
The same article makes the foreigner
subject ito the laws and obligations,
without reooursc other Than that granted
Mexican citizens" a futile attempt to
deny the right Of foreign Intervention In
any case. And II proceeds. this const!-
tuition shall not lose force n effect
even though interrupted by rebellion
even In that case It's observance shall be
reestablIaaed. and those figuring In the
Government having it's source In the re-
bollion or IN alliances with such forces,
shall be Judged accordingly"
! This Is a mighty club In tho hands OF
tho unsrrupulous, and the foreigner can
DO deported as easily as the hapless
citizen can be judged"
There have been few demonstrations
] IllDIt eIOfhlIls nan NlNt olIiNidl
Of Alberto Garcia Granados. an elderly
a~ristocrat who wac charged with Huer-
tists procllvities. The public prosecu-
tor himself asked only a maximum OF
two years Imprisonment. Granados was
shot by a Airing squad. whose officer,
instead of delivering tho usual formal
golpc de gracia. put his gun to the
back OF the dead mans skull and blew
the whole head to pieces with a dun
dunn bullet. then sent the horribly mu.
tilated figure to the family for burial.
similar was the murder of Gustavo Ma.
varro. who was actually acquitted by his
jury on October II. only to he rearrested
by the Government and surrmarily shot
The story In the capital is that these
men had proof hat at the time of the
Huerta revolt Carranza himself wa.
conspiring IN Saltillo and had stored
"A great amount of ammunition rcady &c
start "A revol, OF his own ~asainst Ma
dero.
There is no proof Of this ob.ainahle
There Is another story that Carranzs
! ordered both men %pardoned. and his or.
ders were disobeyed.