The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-26
CARRIZAL ATTACK
WAS DELIBERATE
Carranza Notifies State De-
partment That the Attack
Was Direct Result of Or
der Sent by Him to Gen.
TrevinO and Communicate
ed to Pershing

Washington, d. c., June 26.-Secretary
Lansing's note to the de facto govern.
ment demanding the immediate release
of the American troopers taken prisoner
at Carrizal, coupled with the stern notifi-
cation that the United States expects an
early statement of the Carranza govern.
ment, reached Mexico City last night
and Special Agent Rodgers arranged to
deliver it Immediately. This was report
ed in cablegram from Rodgers, sent last
night and received to-day. There was
nothing in the message to indicate how
the demand was received or when a reply
might be expected.
The note diseloses that the state de-
partment received Saturday a communi-
cation from the de facto government,
stating that the Carrizal fight was the
direct result of orders to attack Ameri-
can soldiers moving otherwise than to-
ward the border, personally sent by Cen
Carranza to Gen. Trentino, and by the
latter communicated to General Perish
ing.
In reply, Secretary Lansing reqUiries
that the de facto government transmit
definite statement ''as to the course OF
action it has determined upon" through
the usual diplomatic channels "and not
through subordinate military officials
The text of the note to the de facto
government is as follows:
"Mr. Arredondo yesterday delivered to
this government the following communi-
cation:
81 am directed by my government to
inform your excellency, with reference
to the Csrrizal incident, that the chief
executive, through the Mexican war de-
partment, gave orders to General Jacinto
B. Trevino not to permit American forces
from General Pershings column to adj
vance farther south, nor to move either
east or west from the points where they
are located, and to oppose new incursions
of American soldiers into Mexican terri |
tory. These orders were brought by Gen. |
Trevino to the attention of Gen. Perish
ing, who acknowledged the receipt of the |
communication relative there to. On the /
22d instant, as your excellency knows, an |
American force moved eastward quite far
from its base, notwithstanding the above
orders, and was engaged by Mexican
troops at Carrizal, state Of Chihuahua.
As result of the encounter, several men
on both sides were killed and wounded,
and seventeen American soldiers wer.
made prisoners
"You are hereby instructed to hand
to the minister of foreign relations of the
de facto government the following:
1.-The government of the United
States can put no other construction
upon the communication handed to the
secretary of state of the United States
on the twenty fourth of June, by Mr.
Arredondo under instructions OF your
government, than that it is intended as
formal avowal of deliberately hostile
action against the forces of the United
States now in Mexico, and of the purpose
to attack them without provocation
whenever they move from their present
position in pursuance of the objects for
which they were sent there, notwitn
standing the fact that those objects not
only involve no unfriendly intention to-
wards the government and people of 4
Mexico, but are on the contrary intend {
ed only to assist that government in pro- !
teeting itself and the territory and peo- s
pie of the United States against ire I
sponsible and insurgent bands of rebel \
marauders.
81 am instructed, therefore, by my :
government, to demand the immediate !
release of the prisoners taken in the en-
counter at Carrizal, together with onv
property of the United States taken with
them. and to inform you that the govern
ment of the United States expects an
early statement from your government
as to the course of action il wishes the
government OF the United States to un- !
ierstand il has determined upon and L
that it also expects that this statement t
he made through the usual diplomatic p
channels, and not through subordinate P
military commanders !" o
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