The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-06-29
US. WARNS CARRANzA'
LANSING TELLS FIRST Chief
THAT -oRAvEsT coNsE-
oUENcEs" WILL FoL-
LOW ANY AT
TACK.
Nets Charges 0iseourtesy, Misreere-
sentatieN Of Facts and insinesrty.
and That No Atts~pt Was
Made to Help pvesue
oAnditS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington. June 2l.-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withdrawn from Mexico and warns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 secre-
tary of foreign relations of the de
facto government of Mexico:
Department of State. Washington.
June 20, 1915. Sir have read your
TO me ON May %. 1916, under instruc-
tions of the chief executive of the dc
facto government of Mexico on the sub
troops in Mexican territory and l
would be wanting in candor II did
not, before making answer to the alle-
cations of fact and the conclusions
reached by your government, express
the surprise and regret which have
been 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
has viewed with deep concern and
ress of the revolution in Mexico. Com
tinuOus bloodshed and disorders have
marked its progress.
For three years the Mexican repub-
lie has been torn with civil strife;
the lives of Americans and other aliens
have been sacrificed vast properties
developed by American capital and en-
terprise have been destroyed or rem
dered -prOductive; bandits have
been permitted to roam at will through
the territory contiguous to the Unit
ed states and to seize without pun
ishment or without effective attempt
at 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 barbarously taxi
en-, and the murderers have neither
been apprehen' nor brought to JUS
1t would be difficult to find in the
annals OF the history Of Mexico con-
which have existed there during these
recent years of civil war.
1t would be tedious to recount in
outrage, atrccity after atrocity, to
illustrate the true nature and extent
Of the widespread conditions of law
lessness and violence which have pre-
Reess.t. Bandit Raid. Acre.s Border.
nn,ring the past nine months In par,
sSar the bs frontier Of the United
been thrown into state of constant
apprehension and turmoil because OF
frequent and sudden incursions into
American territory and depredations
and murders on American soil by Mexi-
can bandits, who have taken the lives
and DESTROYED the property Of Ameri-
lean citizens across the international
boundary, with the booty seized.
american garrisons have been at
killed and their equipment and horses
stolen. American ranches have been
raided, property stolen and destroyed
and n1< toHr rnf, 4
The attacks on Brownsville, Red
House Ferry, Progreso postoffice and
tacks on American territory Car
ranzista adherents and even Carran-
burning and killing. Not only were
these murders charact erized by ruth
less brutality. but uncivilized acts of
mutilation were perpetrated.
Requests Have Proved FstIle.
Representations were made to Gen.
Carranza and he was emphatically re
Quested to stop these reprehensible
acts in a section which he has long
nation of his authority.
notwithstanding these representa-
tions and the promise of Gen. Nafar-
to taef along ,bs the I'M
month Of October passenger train
was wrecked by bandits and several
persons killed seven miles north OF
brownsville and an attack was made
upon United States troops at the same
place several days later. Since these
attacks leaders of the bandits, we'll
known to both Mexican civil and mill
tary authorities as well as to Ameri-
can officers have been enjoying with
impunity the liberty of the towns Of
SO far has the Indifference OF the
de facto government to these atroc-
tiles gone that some of these leaders
.Ixrfx,
only the protection of that government
but encouragement and aid as we'll.
Depredations upon American persons
and property within Mexican jurisdic-
ton have been still more numerous.
This government has repeatedly re-
quested in the strongest terms that
lives and homes of American citizens
and furnish the protection which inter-
national obligation imposes, to Ameri-
Tamnnpas Z @ue%o Leon Stss
Chihuahua and Sonora and also in the
states to the south.
For example, on Jan. 3. troops were
requested to punish the bands of out
laws which looted the Cusi mining
property, eighty miles west of Chi
huahua. but no effective results came
During the following week the
bandit Villa with his band of about
200 men was operating without oppo-
sition between Rubio and Santa Ysabel
fact well known to Carranzista au-
thorities.
Meanwhile a party of unfortunate
Americans started by train from Chi
buahua to visit the Cusi mines. after
having received assurances from the
Carranzista authorities in ehe state of
Chihuahua that the country was safe
and that a guard on the train was not
necessary The Americans held pass
ports or safe conducts issued by au
thorities of the de facto government.
ON JAN 10 the train was stopped by
Villa bandits and eighteen of the
American party were stripped of their
clothing and shot in cold blood in what
Americans Reported Massacred.