Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-21
Sico.
Review of Outrngcs.
The government of the Tn
tpg has viewed with dean CON,

bandits havo been permitted to roam
at will through the territory contigu-
Gus of the United states. and to seize
without punishment, or without effec-
tive attempt at punishment, the prop
erty of the Americans. while the lives
of citizens of the United States who
ventured to remain In Mexican terri
tory or to return there to protect
their interests have been taken. In
some cases harbarously. and the muir
derers have neither been apprehended
nor brought TO justice. It would be
difficult to find in the annals of the
history Of Mexico conditions more de-
plorable than those which have ex-
listed there during these recent years
of civil war.
Border Conditions Worse.
1T would be tedious to recount in
stance after instance, Outrage after out
rage, atrocity after atrocity to illustrate
the true nature and extent Of the wide
spread conditions of lawlessness and
violence which have prevailed. Dur
ing the past nine months in particular,
the frontier of the United States along
the lower Rio Grande has been thrown
into a state Of constant apprehension
and turmoil because of frequent and
sudden incursons into American ter
ritory and depredations and murders
on American soil by Mexican bandits.
who have taken the lives and de-
stroyed the property of American citi-
zens, sometimes carrying American
citizens across the internationl boun-
dairy with the booty seized. The
American garrisons have been at
tackled at night, American soldiers
Killed and their equipment and horses
stolen, American ranches have been
raided, property stolen and destroyed
and American trains wrecked and
plundered The attacks on Browns
vile, Red House ferry. Progreso post
office and Las Peladas, all occurring
In these attacks on American terri
tory Carrancista adherents and even
Carrancista soldiers took part in the
looting, burning and killing. Not only
were these murders characterized by
brutality but uncivilized acts
OF mutilation were perpetrated. Rep
resentations were made to General
Carranza and he was cmphat-
ically requested to stop there repre-
hensible acts in a section which he
has long claimed ~ he under the COM
plete domination of his authority
Representations Unayailing.
Notwithstanding these representa-
lions and the promise Of General Ma
farette TO prevent attacks along the
boundary in the follow
ng month of october, n passenger
rain was wrecked by bandits and sew
arai persons killed, seven miles north
Of Brownsville, and an attack was
made upon the United states troops
1t the same place several days later
Since these attackA leaders of the
bandits, well known both to Mexican
'lvil and military authorities as well
rs to the American officers, have been
with impunlty the liberty of
he towns of northern Mexico So
ar has the Indifference Of the de
'acto government to these atrocities
gone that some Of these leaders. as
am advised, have received not only
he protection OF that government but
Encouragement and aid as well.
Dcpredations Numerous.
"Depredatlons upon American per-
ons and property within Mexican /
have been still more num- (
rous. This government has repeated /
Y requested in the strongest terms
hat the de facto government safe
iuard the lives and homes of Ameri-
an citizens and furnish the protection
which international obligation inn
,oses to American interests in the
lorthern states OF Tamaulipas Nuevo
con, Coahuila, Chihuahua and Son
IRA and in the states TO the south.
'or example. on January 3, troops
we're requested 10 punish the bands of
outlaws which looted the Cusi mining
property. 80 miles west of Chihuahua.
,ut no effective results came from the
equest. During the following week
he bandit villa with his band of about "A
100 men was operating without OPP
position between Rubio and Santa
isabel, a fact well known to Carranza
authorities.
The Santa Ysabci Massacre. II
Meanwhile a party Of unfortunate
americans started by train from
to visit the Cusi mines,
fter having received assurances from
he Carranza authorities, In the state i
# chihuahua, that the country was,