Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-01
|C|VES FORTH AN
UNCERTAIN TONE
Mexican Memorandum Sa-
vors Of Defiance and
Denies Charges
ASsAILS U. S. STAND
Resents Rebuke and Document
Thought in Washington to Be A
Forecast Of Reply
Document

Brownsville, Tex. July 1.-Con'
centration Of Carranza troops just
below the border is proceeding
apace. Fort Brown army officials an.
nounced today they had word from
Matamoras of the arrival there OF
General Nafarette and 800 Mexican
soldiers sent all the way from Tam
pico.
Just prior to Nafarettes arrival
it was said General Ricaut, whom he
succeeded, commandeered seven au-
tomobiles, the personal property OF
wealthy residents, among which was
one belonging to an American NAM
ed Puid.
Battery F, Fifth United STATES
Field Artillery, was encamped a
mile outside of Brownsville today.
E. Battery of the same regiment, is
en- route to Rio Grande City today.
Mexico City, July 1.-The Mexico
City newspapers today vigorously
approved the statement given out
by Foreign Secretary Aguilar yes
terday, commenting upon and refut-
ing assertions in the American note
The Foreign office statement was
published in the Same editions with
the American note, which was thus
given to the public. for. the first time.
Mexico City, July 1.-The Foreign
Office yesterday issued memorail-
dun in reply to Secretary Lanslng's
recent note, in which the correct
ness of assertions in the commun1ca'
ton from Washington were repeated
ly denied. The memorandum declar'
ed that the United States had ne
right to maintain its armed force
on Mexican soil.
The memorandum contains 30
counts. Although not in the form OF
direct reply to the Washington
note, it is considered equivalent to ar
answer to the document.
1t expresses surprise that the
Washington government should have
been panied at the tone and the con
tents of the CarranZa document
since it maintains that the United
States has sent to the Constitutions
government not only one, but man!
discourteous and even overbearinl
notes.
Emphatically reiterating the Mexi
can governments positions denying
the right of the United States t.
keep armed bodies in Mexico, tht
memorandum denies energeticall!
that the Mexican government ha
protected bandits who had eommitte'
depredations in the United States am
defes Washington to produce proc
of the assertion.
Blame for the Santa Ysabel mas
sacre is placed on the so-called i'm
pulsive and irascible disposition o
Charles Watson, general manager o
Cusihuiriachi Company, iand Genera
Scott and General Funston are &C
cused, of bad difaith and lack of homo
in misleading General Obregon in a
alleged evasive reply regarding tn
crossing of American troops int
Mexico after the Glenn Springs raid
The memorandum asserts tina
while it is true that. the Unite
States arrested General Huerta, tn
motive which prompted this act wa
not purpose of aiding the Const
tutionalist government, but becaus
the United States feared that Gen
eral Huerta was plotting with Ge1
many.
! The note concludes by declarin
| that the presence of American trooE
| in Mexico invites rather than pr
lvents bandits raids along the border
| The memorandum was; issued
1 the same time that the Foreign O.
4 flee authorized publication of Seer
tary Lansing's recent note.
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