Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-13
WENT INTO MEXICO
DESPITE WARNING
So President Is Quoted With
Respect to Murdered
Americans.
NO CHANGE is INDICATED
IN GOVERNMENTS POLICY
Carranza Expected to Comply With
Lansing Demands-One More
American Killed.

The killing of Bart Kramer,
another citizen of the United
States, bv Mexican bandits, was
reported officially in dispatches to
the State Department today. No
word, however, OF the reported
killing OF ten more citizens of the
United States and two English
women, said in news dispatches
TO have occurred near MADEIRA,
! Mexico. reached the State De-
partment up to early this after
noon.
| While administration officials,
including the President and Sec
| retary Lansing of the State De-
! partment, were waiting for fur
ther reports on the Mexican situa-
ton, President Wilson is under
stood to have said to callers to-
| day:
"They were specifically warned
not to go into Mexico"
No Indication Of Change.
Substantially these words were used
! by the President at the White House
| today, when spoken to about the seri-
BUSINESS of the Mexican situation, ac-
cording to visitors who saw and talked
with him. Further than this the
President did not go, it was said, and
he gave no indication of proposed
change in his policy toward the coun-
try of Carranza and Villa.
Senator Sheppard of Texas was one
of those who saw the President at the
White House about the Mexican situa-
| tion. which, the Texas sena tor said, is
extremely serious
! The President, it was said later.
merely reminded Senator Sheppard that
Americans who were killed were warn
ed not to go into the region where
| they were slain. Ii was said that the
President repeated the same statement
to others later in the day. Senator
Sheppard had with him a telegram
which he received from a prominent
Texan at Ell Paso saying that the
Americans who were slain Monday
near Chihuahua City were urged by
Gen. Obregon. the Carranza COM
| mander, to take the journey, express
ing the belief that they would be safe.
Report on Kramer Killing.
The killing Of Kramer, an American.
by Mexican bandits was officially re-
ported in dispatches today by Collector
Cobb at Ell Paso. The collector report
ed Kramer was killed near GUERRA,
sixty miles west of Santa YsobeI in
chihuahua.
The department was further inform
ed that the band which killed the
party of Americans Monday was COM
manded by two former Villa colonels,
Lopez and Peltran. Gen. Reyna also
was said to have commanded part of
the Mexican force.
According to the dispatches, eighty
FIVE men were assigned to shoot the
Americans. force OF about 500 men
was reported near the scene, apparent
ly held IN reserve. After killing the
Americans. todays dispatch said, the
Mexicans robbed the train and later
retired in the direction of Carretas.
Troops Sent in Pursuit.
Collector Cobb said he had been in
formed that troop trains had been dis
patched by the Carranza authorities in
pursuit of the bandits, one going from
Juarez and another from chihuahua.
Another dispatch to the department
said Gen. Villa recently had been seen
near Chihuahua, but his present where
abouts was unknown.
In regard to statements that Gen
Obregon had urged American mining
men to resume their work in Mexico
State Department officials said no in
, formation to that effect had been re-
ceived here. but 1t was understood gem
eral resumption of mining activities
was the expressed hope of the Car
rama authorities.
No message had been received TODAY
from Consul Silliman and it is not re-
garded as probable that a reply from
Gen. CarranZa to Secretary LanSing's
representations will be received before
tomorrow.
Secretary Lansing said today the de-
partment would prepare soon for the
Senate the information on the Mexican
situation asked by Senator Falls reso-
luton.
One British Subject Killed,
Reports to the British embassy from
the British vice consul at Chihuahua
made no mention of the shooting near
San Ysobel, nor the later one reported
near MADEIRA. They referred to one
British subject having been killed, but
did not mention his name, and en-
bassy officials assumed he referred to
Peter Keane, whose death was reported
yesterday. -
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice asked Secretary
Lansing today for any Information
available regarding the British in
| yoIved in the killings.
While anxiously awaiting Carranza's
response to the American demand on
| cials continued their efforts today to
obtain all the facts bearing on the mur-
| ders from consular officers in Mexico
land along the border They had been