The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-17
Gen. Carranza Promises to
Punish the Men Who
Killed Americans
BELIEVES VILLA
WAS RESPONSIBLE
Claim Atrocities Were Committed for
Purpose of Provoking International
Troubles - Difficulty of Situation
Pointed Out.

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. = General
Carranza has renewed his assurances to
the United States that he would make
every effort to punish those response
bic for the murders of American min
ing men near Santa Ysabel.
despatch from Consul SilIiman to
the state department dated at Quere
taro yesterday, said Carranza hal per
sonally assured Mr.. Silliman. in rertv
to the department s demand. that the
murderers be run down, that he chad
issued orders for the immediate oar
suit, capture and punishment of those
responsible for the atrocitv.''
simultaneously, in a despatch to
| Elseo Arredondo, his ambassador desio-
nate here, Gen. Carranza announced
that he was about to issue decree
permitting any citizen of Mexico to
execute any of the bandits without
! formaiity.'
The despatch from Consul silhman
follows:
Department s telegram Of Jan. IS,
) p. m, massacre of Americans at San
ia Ysabel, received at $50 and imme-
diately placed before Gen. Carranza by
me in person. Gen. Carranza said that
he had already issued orders for the
immediate pursuit, capture and punish
ment of those responsible for the
atrocity.
He stated that he believed this out
rage was committed by men associated
directly with Villa and that it was
done specially to provoke international
troubles at this time. He said he had
declared those responsible outside the
+o ha aA
caught
He appeals to the secretary of stat,
and to the public of the United State,
to consider the wide strip of the cen
: trail railway, the great difficulty o.
: guarding the entire distance and tn,
+ comparatively easy task of destroyin,
) a train or attacking q small place. II
{ says that nobody can lament more thar
he such an atroeity or be more con
cerned about it, but that protection j
relative. and that even in the hes
disposed states outbursts of disorder
and lawlessness may cause destruction
of property and loss of life.
He says he Is expecting full report
: from Gen. Trevino and that all officer
will be made to protect Americans an,
= any other foreigners who may be i
: the district. His belief is the massacr
s was made premeditatively by ban
: who fed at once after the raid.
Assurances that "eondign punisf
ment" would be visited upon the mul
derers already had been given tn
state department through Mr.. Arrer
dondo. Whether formal note frol
: Carranza is to follow has not been re
vealed.
Carranza's telegram to his embass
here is as follows:
= 'The government, under my dire
ton, has adopted every necessary mea
ure to insure the prosecution of enc
getic campaign for the capture an
destruction of the party of Whilst
bandits and to continue the same to il
D complete accomplishment.
81 have asked Gen. Jacinto b. TT
vino, commanding the Constitutional
troops in the neighborhool of the a
sassinations, to obtain for me the name
of the assailants in order that a
cree may be issued, placing them on
side the pale of the law.
" When this is done any citizen
y citizens of the republic will have Il
] right to arrest the guilty parties wit
HEout warrant and to execute them wit
out formality.
"Similar DEGREES were issued and e
ecuted effectively in the cases of Q
] sanlts and dvnamiting of trains in a
Mother section of the republic with
" the year, notably when a passeng