The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-22
CARRANzA GETS
SINGING REPLY
First Chiefs Men Protect Ban
dts. Lansing Charges.
L. S. ARMY TO STAY IN1MENCO

Head Of Mexican Government Is Told
That If He Carries Out Threat to
Attack "the Gravest Consequences
VIII Foilow-charges of Bad Faith
Made In Note.
Washington, June 21.-The Ameri-
can government threatened General
Carranza with "the graYest conse-
quences" il he attacks American
troops now in Mexico.
This threat was contained in long
note replying to his last withdrawal
demand.
Full OF short-arm diplomatic jabs,
the note positively declines to take
the American. forces out Of Mexico. It
excoTiated Carranzaa for his failure to
cooperate and resented his bursque-
ness and his intimations of bad faith.
"The de facto government is pleased
to ignore this obligation Ito protect
American rights and chase bandits) :"
said the note, "and to believe that in
case Of a refusal to retire these troops
there is no further recourse than to
defend its territory by an appeal to
arms The government Of the United
States would surely be lacking in sim
certify and friendship If 1t did not
impress upon the de facto government
that the execution of this threat willy
lead to the gravest consequences"
Bluntly the note told Csarranza that
this government Cannot recede from
It's settled determinations ito maintain
its national rights" and to prevent
further Taids across the boundary.
The high Nights Of the}nOte were:
"In these attacks (on,speciaed Amer
fcan towns9 ON American territory
CaTranzista adherents, and even Car
ranzista soldiers, took part in the loot
Ang burning and killing"
"Stnce these attacks leaders of the
bandits, well known to both the Mexi-
can and civil and military authorities,
as we'll as to American officers, have
been enjoying with impunity the lIber
ty of the towns of northern Mexico"
ION Jan. 10, the train was stoppedi
by Villa bandits and eighteen Of the
American party were stripped Of their
clothing and shot in cold blood. I'M
what is now known as the Santa Ysa-
bel massacre.
within a month afteer this barbar
Gus slaughter of inoffensive Americans
it was notorious that Villa was operat-
ing within twenty miles Of Cusihuiri{
ACHE, and publicly stated that his pur
pose was to destroy American lives
and property"
after numbering, burning and
plundering, Villa and his bandits, fee
jag south, passed within sight of the
C9rranzista military post at Casas
Grandes, and no effort was made 10
stop him by the officers and garrison
OF the de facto government stationed
there"
"Whil this government would deep
~ regret such result, it cannot re-
cede from its settled determination to
maintain its national rights and to
perform its full duty in preventing,
further invasions of the territory of
the United States and in removing the
peril which Americans along the inter
national boundary have borne so long
with patience and forbearance."
"I am reluctant to be forced to the
conclusion which might be drawn from
the circumstances" Secretary Lansing
declares, 'that the de facto govern
msnt, in spite of the crimes committed
and the sinister designs of Villa and
his followers, did not and does not
now intend or desire that these out
laws should be captured, destroyed or
dispersed by American troops. or, at
the request of this government, by
Mexican troops"
No Aim at Conquest.
The purposes of the United States
government toward Mexico, question
ed in the last Mexican note, are an
nounced in the following language:
eff denial is needed that this gov
eminent has had Interior and impro-
per motives in it's diplomatic repre-
sensations, or has countenanced the
activities Of American sympathizers
and the American press opposed to
the de facto government, / am glad
most emphatically to deny it. It is,
however, q matter Of common knowl
edge that the Mexican press has been
more active than the press Of the
United States in endeavoring to in
Same the two peoples against each
@aher and to force the two countries
into hostilities."
Copies Given Diplomats.
The note was handed early Tuesday
to Elisio Arredondo, the Mexican am
bassador designate here, for transmits
sion to Mexico City. Copies were
furnished to all foreign embassies and
legations, and summary cabled to
Special Agent Rodgers at the Mexican
capital for his information.
In addition to refusing to withdraw
the troops and warning that execution