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The state department was officially
advised this week that it might expect
soon Il new note from General Car
rama regarding the border situation
Indications are that ii will be of
friendly character and il is thought
possible General Carranza may pro
pose the framing OF d definite under
standing along the lines Of the unwrit
ten agreement reached by the military
conferences at FL Paso between Major
Generals Scott and Funston and Gen
eral Obregou.
The administration shipping bill ap-
propriating $4,000 500 for the pur.
chase OF merchant ships by the fed.
eral government with a view TO pro-
viding an adequate merchant marine.
passed the house Saturday by a party
vote. II now goes to the senate, where
a combination of democrats and repub.
liCans defeated a similar measure a
year ago.
Germany, through Count BernstOrff,
her ambassador at Washington has
instructed all German cOnsuls in the
United States to adItOnish German
citizens in their districts scrupulously
to observe American laws. This was
done in an effort to end various al
legged violations of American neutral.
lty. The ambassador acted on instruc.
| lions from the Berlin foreign Office.
The action was announced Friday in
an official statement from the German
embassy.
Secretary McAdoo Friday submitted
/ to Chairman Kitchin of the house ways
/ and means committee and Chairman
/ Simmons of the senate finance COM
mittee revised estimates OF the gov.
! ernment's receipts and expenditures
| for the remainder of the current fiscal
year and the fiscal year ending June
| 80, 1917, tending to show that much
less new revenue will have to be
raised TO meet the bill for prepared
ness and other large contemplated ex-
pendltures than had been supposed
Only about S150,000,00O in additional
| revenue will have to be provided dur
ing the coming year, says Mr., AfcAdoo.
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The United States has requested
Great Britain to suspend, pending in
Quiry, the inflietion of whatever sem
tence may be imposed on jeremiah G.
Lynch, the naturalized American con.
victed of completely in the Dublin up
rising
The senate Friday passed Senator
Sheppards resolution extending fed.
eral recognition to the Texas Bi-CoR.
tennial and Pan-American Exposition
to be held in San Antonio in 1918.
The flood control bill, providing APP.
preparations for the Mississippi and
Sacramento rivers, was passed by the
house Wednesday by vote of $50 to
So,
General Trevino at Jiminez, Mexico,
has announced plan to throw a cor
don of Carranza troops around Du-
range state and so keep the Villa BAN
dts both in and out.
1t is reported from Athens that
French troops have occupied Fort
Dowa Eete by force and that the
| Greek government has delivered an
| nh tin nrOfnCf tho nninictorc NJ
Athens of the entente powers. Greece
points out that the occupation of the
| fort is contrary to promises which had
| been given.
| Sergeant Harry Furman, a member
| of machine company OF the Third
U. s. infantry, was shot and killed
on Mexican soil a mile and half east
Of Juafez, Mexico. Friday by Mexican
customs guards.
Major Langhorne's cavalrymen We'd
nesday made a dash into the town Of
Ell Pine, 125 miles south OF the border,
and rescued Jesse Deemer and Mon.
roe Payne, the latter a negro, who
were taken prisoners by Villista raid.
ers at Glenn Springs, Texas.
The entente airmen have been &C.
tive this week against the German POI
sitions, and there have been combats
in the air with German fliers In these
latter combats several German aircraft
were brought down by British and
French aeToplanes.
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