Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-01
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QUESTIONS FAITH
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Disputes Right to Maln-====-=
Armed Forces on Mes
can Soil. - il
EQUIVALENT TO ANSWER . - -
TO WASHIMGT0N
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1u''i'r,' 'tot. ieiais STARTSI
Formal Reply to 10. 9.15
Very Defiant. .. M. a
HINT OF PRIVATE ADv1CEss
View That T2voalrs 4A
INT OF PRIVATE ADucEs
View Expressed That Break Between
Two Governments Seems
Unavoidable.

MENICO CITY, June 30.-The Foreign
Office to-day issued II memorandum In
reply to Secretary Lansing's recent
note, in which the correctness of asser-
tions in the communication were re-S
peatedly denied. The memorandum de-6
clares that the United States had no.
right to maintain its armed forces on
Mexican soil. e
The memorandum contains thirty!fv
counts. Although not in the form. Off
direct reply to the Washington note.
1T is considered equivalent to an'answer%
to that document. It expresses SURPRISE
that the Washington government shoulda
have been pained al the tone and the
contents of the Carranza document
since it maintains that the United
states has sent to the constitutionai2
government. not only one, but many,
discourteous and even oyerbearing9
notes.
Emphatically reiterating the sIexi-s
can governments position, denying theS
right of the United States sto keep
armed bodies i'll Mexico. the memo.
randum denies energetically that the
Mexican government has projected:
bandits who had committed depfslas
tions in the United States. and &datssi
Washington to produce proof Of this
assertion. IL "A .s;s I'D
SCOTT AND FUNSTON sigl
ACCUSED OF BADsF&ITYF
Blame for the Santa Ysabel mai -
is placed on the so-called iml -
and irascible disposition OF CfA ~
Watson general manager of CusASN ~
chic Company. and General Se6W -
General Funston are accused ofssL
faith and lack of honor in misleadirT
General Obregon into an alleged 4eyaa
i've reply regarding the crossinGg
American troops into Mexico after&8iff
Glenn Springs raid. sis$ 1t
The memorandum asserts that s%hJlN
it is true that the United States arrestss
General Huerta. the motivssS,S as
prompted this act was not sMA
of aiding the Constitutionallst[S -. saiiS
ment. but because the United IS I'VE
feared that General Huerta VIE s7ao
ting With Germany. sssrt ~
The note concludes by declarinl ~
the presence of American trpopS:
Mexico invites. rather than sprevS &
bandit raids along the border. 81
The memorandum was issued all
same time that the Foreign Onictij
sings recent note.
l.. =. NOTES DISCOURTEOUS
AND THREATEMI
In part. the note says
1T appears strange that tho Depxss
ment of State OF the United SfGpe
should be displeased with the notI 81
this government of May 90, whiSN
terms discourteous. when the samS
tNsh, t,N... H.. -,
tuuonal government. not one, az
many, notes in tone not only fs5,
courteous. but threatening. GFs
During the period alluded to sfnsS
note l4S Mexican citizens have@f
murdered in American terrftorJg
American citizens. and even bysY
authorities of the United States: :
despite the fact that both nations III
in Il state of profound peace, and
none of these cases. despite repaa
remonstrances by the Mexican anab
sador at Washington, have any Off
guilty been exemplarily punished, ,SSS
1T is untrue that the Mexicans9 9s
eminent has protected In any insta
criminals attacking American S. a.
tory. The Mexican goveErnaen
done all in its power to tprotects
subjects. The fault lies wiz
eigners. especially Americans, N
sisted on remaining In disturb
tricts. despite the repeated war;
the Mexican governments. ASH
citiEens have suffered severef-
count of the condition of ans ID
hardly just that foreignerdd
expect to be immune An
The note cites the case Sdnl
watson. one of the victimaN
Santa Ysabel massacre, who. six
insisted OH making the fataf8
despite warning from Gensfs
vino, the military governors
huahua. sJ:SE
wARNED{nY GAvIRA Ss
AGAINST NIAfSIyG@
ut is fact" the note state$a
the American military authorItt
not deny. that on March 1eE
Gavira advised the latter thR
trustworthy intelligence that
his bandits were on the wsvA
frontier. He also wHkned g., -
villa was going BY of MT
mas. thus giving tho AnerIca