The Dolores star., 1916-06-30
U. S. WARNS CARRANzAI
LANSING TELLS FIRST CHIEF
THAT "oRAvEsT coNsE.
oUENcEs" WILL FOL.
Low ANY At
TACK.
"ses Charges oiseourtssy, Misrepre-
ssntatien Of Facts and Inslneerity,
and That No Attempt Was
Made to Help Pursue
0andits.

XWsstsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
washington. June 21.-The United
States noe to Gen. Carranza informs
MIN that American troops will not be
wltndrawn from Mexico and warns
MIN that war will follow any attempt
on his part to enforce his threat to
attack the United States soldiers.
The note in part follows:
Inc secretary Of state to the secrs-
Sary OF foreign relations of the de
hActo government of Mexico:
Department of State, washinxton.
communication, which was delivered
TEN 70 me on May %, 1915. under instruc-
eaeto government of Mexico on the sub
troops in Mexican territory and I
not, before making answer to the .iis u
cations of fact and the conclusions
ne S%rn ~ your govsrnment express
been caused this sovesnm ~nt'p By ht tSs
discourteous tone and temper Of this
last communication from the de facto
government of Mexico.
has viewed with deep concern and
increasing disappointment the prog
rsss OF the revolution in Mexico Com
marked Its progress.
=, For three years the Mexican repub-
40 mas been torn with civil strife;
Sne nves OF Americans and other aliens
have been sacrificed; vast properties
developed by American capital and en-
tsrprise have been destroyed or rem
SSs.sd non.produetive: bandits have
the territory contisuous to the r Unit
% States and to seize without pun
ishment or without effective attempt
cans, while the lives Of citizens of the
United States who ventured to remain
IN Mexican territory or to return there
taken. in some cases barDarousiy tax
en-, and the murderers have neither
been Appreciated nor brought to JUS
1t would be difficult to find in the
annals of tho history Of Mexico con-
H Wbioh ,. more deplorable than those
stance after instance. outrage after
1eIu9 tE, atrocity after atrocity, to
Illustrate the true nature and extent
OF the widespread conditions of law
is:sness and violence which have pre-
Recounts Bandit Raids Across Roraer.
Turing the past nine months in par
ticular the frontier Of the United
states along the lower Rio Grande has
apprehension and turmoil because Of
trequent and sudden incursions into
American territory and depredations
can bandits, who have taken the lives
ana destroyed the property of Ameri-
can citizens. sometimes carrying Amer
lean citizens across the international
boundary, with the booty seized.
American garrisons have been at
lacked at night, American soldiers
stolen American ranches have been
raiaed. property stolen and destroyed
and American trains wrecked and
The attacks on Brownsville, Red
House Ferry. Progreso postoffice and
Las Peladas. all occurring during Sep
tacks on American territory Car
ranzista adherents and even Carran-
Sista soldiers t9Sk part in the lootins.
these murders characteriz BY ruth
less brutality. but uncivilized acts of
mutation were perpetrated.
Requests Have Proved Futile.
Representations were made to Gen.
Carranza and he was emphatically re-
Quested to stop these reprehensible
acts In a section which he has long
claimed to be under the complete domi-
nation OF his authority.
Notwithstanding these representa-
lions and the promise of Gen. Nafar.
rete to prevent attacks along the in
ternational boundary in the following
month of October a passenger train
was wrecked by bandits and several
persons killed seven miles north of
upon United states troops at the same
place several days later. Since these
attacks leaders of the bandits, well
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
az facto government to these atroc-
tiles gone that some of these leaders,
as I am advised. have received not
only the protection of that government
but encouragement and aid as we'll
Depredations upon American persons
ana ana property within Mexican jurisdic-
This government has repeatedly re-
quested In the strongest terms that
the de facto government safeguard the
and furnish the protection which inter-
national obligation imposes, to Ameri-
can interests in the northern states Of
Chihuahua and Sonora and also in the
states to the south.
For example. on Jan. 3. troops were
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-
MtAon between HuDlO ana santa ISABEL,
y fact well known to Carranzista au-
fhorities
y Meanwhile a party of unfortunate
Americans started by train from Chi |
huahua to visit the Gust mines, after |
having received assurances from the |
Carranzista authorities in the 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 Massaered.
Brownsville, Tex.-Passengers ar