Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-25
URGENT DEMAND
BY WASH|NGTONTO
Be MADE AT ONCE
Also to Insist on Immediate
Release of Captured
6 U. S. Soldiers.
FAILURE TO COMPLY
WILL BRING ON.CLASH
War Department Continues Eff
forts to Speed Up Mobiliza-
ton of State Troops. 8,
WILL BE RUSHED TO BORDER
In Event Of Hostilities, Complete
Occupation OF NortherrrHN Mexico
Will BE Ordered. y
WILL BE RUSHED TO BORDER

WASHINGTON. Juno 24.--A per.mp-
tory demand that General Carranza re-
pudiate the attack on American troops
at Carrizal and Immediately release all
captured American soldiers was under-
stood tonight to be tho next step In
the Mexican crisis. now contemplated
by the Washington government.
Failure TO comply with either demand
undoubtedly would result in the
gravest consequences" foretold In Sec
retary Lansng's recent note to the de-
facto government.
Formulat tion of communication
awaited n hnal report from General
PershinG the Carrizal incident.
Pending its receipt, the War Depart
ment pressed urgently to-day It's efforts
to rc-enforce strongly the border pa
troll and prepare for any eventuality.
Full information from American
sources as to what happened at Car
riZal. was still lacking, and the long
delay in finding additional survivors OF
the fight was regarded as an ominous
sign. No American officer may SUR
vive. In that event action by the
United States probably would be based
stragGlers.
Aside from the stragglers. tho Amer
lean dead reported by Mexican authori-
ties. and the prisoners in Mexican
hands. more than score OF men re-
mained unaccounted for. out OF Captain
Boyd's lit:le detachment OF negro
troops. Without exception the reports
of the straEglers indicate that the
force was trapped and massaored by
machine gun fire.
PERSHING'S CAVALRY SUPPORTS
NEARING SCENE OF TRAGEDY
Some hope persisted Tonight that
few of the command, left afoot In the
desert when their horses stampeded
under the Mexican fire. may have dug
themselves in somewhere In the coun-
try west OF Carrizal. and be waiting
for relief. General PershinE's cavalry
supports were nearing the scene OF the
tragedy. and already had picked up a
number of survivors, according TO late
reports from the border.
officials were plainly concerned with
news dispatches from chihuahua say
ing that General Jacinto Trevino. the
Mexican commander had threatened 10
attack American columns. reported adj
vancinE from the field base toward San
Antonio and Ojocaliente, IL they did not
Immediately retreat. Another battle
At this time might precipitate general
hostilities
Rumors that the Carranza govern
ment was seeking mediation through
other Latin American nations came
from many quarters to-day. The 40.
tivitles OF Elseo Arredondo. the Mex.
lean ambassador designate. lent weight
to the reports. Private advices from
Mexico City also continued to !ndicate
that General CarranZa still hoped to
lind n way TO evade the storm his policy
has aroused.
No offers Of mediation reached tn.
State Department from any source. Ad,
ministration officials hold that they
have nothing TO mediate 1t Is gener-
ally regarded as unlikely that Presi-
dent Wilson would agree to any pro.
posal that meant tying the hands OF
General Funston in his efforts to pro,
tect the border from bandits. \ media
uon plan resting on n military status
quo during negotiations, would prevent
pursuit OF raiders or any operations
beyond the border to break up bandit
organizations before they Necame dan.
gerous. And IL is for this purpose
General Pershin8's column has been
maintained in ITS present position deE
spite Carranzas opposition.
CARRANZA MUST CHANGE
ATTITUDE TO KEEP PEACE
Under these circumstances it was ir
tmated on high authority that effortt
toward preservation OF peace, concern.
ing the initiation OF which the minis
ter OF Salvador was authorized to dast {
TO confer with his diplomatic col aguesAf
could so no further than an attempt to-
persuade Genera! Carranza to cha1gag
his attitude toward tho determination
Of the United States TO protect It's peo-
pie and territory. .8E.
Ambassador Nann. of Argentina, who
was leader in tho movement TO recog-
n!2e the Carranza de facto government
during the Pan-Anericau conferences
as 10 Mexico, Is understood TO havs
advised his government last night that
the circumstances did not lend .hasn.s
selves 20 mediation proposal at thtsSj
time. He came here yesterday from \
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