The Holly chieftain., 1916-06-30
U. S. WARNS CARRANzA
LANSING TELLS FIRST CHIEF
THAT @GRAvEST coNsE-
ouENcEs" WILL FOL-
LOW ANY AT
TACK.
Nets Charges Oiseourtesy. Misreprs-
sentation of Facts and insineerity,
and That No Attempt Was
Made to Help Pursue
Bandits.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. June 21.-The United
States noe to Gen. Carranza informs
him that American troops will not be
Withdrawn from Mexico and warns
him that war will follow any attempt
on his part to enforce his threat to
attack the United States soldiers.
The note in part follows:
The secretary of state to the score
tary OF foreign relations of the de
facto government of Mexico:
Department of State. Washington.
June 90. 1915. sirII have read your
elons Of the chief executive Of the do
eeoto government of Mexico on the SUBJ
{eoe Of the presence Of American
would be wanting in candor Il did
not, before making answer to the alle-
gations. OF fact and the conclusions
reached BY your government, express
bssn caused this government by the
diSCourteous tone and temper OF this
last communication from the de facto
government OF Mexico.
The government Of the United States
pas viewed with deep concern and
ancreasing disappointment the prog
rsss OF the revolution in Mexico. Con-
tinuoue bloodshed and disorders have
marked it, progress.
For three years the Mexican repub-
No has been torn with civil strife;
the lives OF Americans and other aliens
have been sacrificed; vast properties
developed by American capital and en-
dered non-productive; bandits have
been permitted to roam at will through
the territory contiguous to the Unit
- States and to seize without pun
lshment Or without effective attempt
e punishment the property of Ameri-
cans. while the lives of citizens of the
united States who ventured to remain
TO- protect their interests have been
taken, In some cases barbarousiy TAX
en-, and the murderers have neither
neen apprehended nor brought to JUS
It would be difficult to find In the
ennaIs of the history of Mexico con-
o st.on more deplorable than those
y would DO tedious to recounA In
stance after instance outrage after
SntraEe. atrocity after atrocity. to
Of the widespread conditions of law.
tossnsss and violence which have pre-
R.eoa.. Bandit Raid. Aero.. border.
States along the lower Rio Grande has
0ssn tnrewn Into state Of constant
frequent and sudden incursions into
American territory and depredations
and murders ON American soil by Mexi-
can bandits. who have taken the lives
ana DESTROYED the property of Ameri-
cAA citizens, sometimes carrying Amer
lean citizens across the International
oouun mar,yy.:, with the the booty seiaed.
tackled at night Amortron uO1Ni>r~
killed and their equipment and horses
eto!en. American ranches have been
rsaaed property stolen and destroyed
The attacks ON Brownsville, Red
House Ferry. Progreso postoffice and
tember last, are typical. In these at
tacks on American territory Car
ranzista adherents and even Carran-
sissa soldiers nG sgHk part IN the lootins
these murders charact erized BY ruth
loss brutality. but uncivilized acts of
mutiiati0n were perpetrated.
Requests Have Proved Futile.
Representations were made to Gen.
Garranza and ne was emphaticaliy re-
acts In section which he has long
claimed to be under the complete domi-
nation NO. ct his authority.
lions and the promise OF Gen, Nafar.
rete to prevent attacks along the In
transitional boundary In the following
month OF October q passenger train
persons killed seven miles north of
brownsville and an attack was made
upon United States troops at the same
attacks leaders Of the bandits, we'll
known to both Mexican civil and mill.
tary authorities as well as to Amert-
-can officers. have been enjoying with
.mpuni.y the liberty OF the towns Of
90 far has the Indifference Of the
H.. facso government to these atroc.
altses gone that some of these leaders,
only the protection of that government,
but encouragement and aid as we'll
- DepredatiOns upon American persons
ZION have. been still more numerous
This government has repeatedly re-
2uested In the strongest terms that
he de facto government safeguard the
ANA furnish the protection which inter-
national obligation imposes, to Ameri-
can interests Il the northern states Of
mauitpas. N1evo Leon. coahuila,
states to the south.
For example, on Jan. 3. troops were
requested to punish the bands Of OUT
property. eighty miles west OF Chi
huahua, but no effective results came
During the following week the
bandit villa with his band Of about
100 men was operating without oppc-
sition between Rubio and Santa Ysabel,
= fact we'll known to Carranzista au-
Meanwhile o party of unfortunate
Americans started by train from Chi
huahua to visit the Gust mines, after
having received assurances from the
chihuahua that the country was Ra 70