Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-06-23
PRESIDENTS NOTE
WARNS CARRANzA
Drastic Action viii Follow if the
Mexicans Start a
Fight.
TROOPS TO STAY IN MEXICO
First Chief Is Charged With Bad
Faith and Broken Promises-De
Facto Soldiers Knew of Villa
Raid on Columbus.

Raid on Columbus.
Washington.-Th American govern
ment threatened General Carranza
with "the gravest consequences" If he
attacks American troops now in Mex
leo.
This threat was contained in long
note replying to his last withdrawal
demand.
Full of ShOrt-arm diplomatic jabs,
the note positively declines to take
the American forces out of Mexico. 1t
excoriated Carranza for his failure to
cooperate and resented his brusque-
ness and his limitations Of bad faith.
1.-THE de facto government is pleased
to ignore this obligation Ito protect
American rights and chase bandits),"
said the note, land to believe that in
case of a refusal to retire these troops
there is no further recourse than to
defend it's territory by an appeal to
arms The government of the United
States would surely be lacking in sim
certify and friendship if it did not
frankly impress upon the de facto
government that the execution Of this
threat will lead to the gravest c0nse-
Quences."
Bluntly the note told CarraHza that
this government cannot recede from
it's settled determination to maintain
it's national rights" and to prevent
further raids across the boundary.
Some of the Charges.
The highlights of the note were:
Resentment of Carranza's discourte-
Gus tone and temper in his last note.
Charges that bandits have gone un-
hampe ed and nnpunished in attacking
Americans.
Recitation of scores of instances of
banditry.
Charges that the Carranza regime
had been Indifferent to atrocities and
even encouraged and aided some of
the leaders of these.
Charges that Carranza did not take
proper steps to apprehend Villa and
others.
II am reluctant to be forced to the
conclusion which might be drawn from
the circumstances" Secretary Lansing
declares, .that the defacto government,
in spite of the crimes committed and
the sinister designs of Villa and his
followers, did not and does not now
intend or desire that these outlaws
should be captured, destroyed or dis
perSed by American troops, or, at the
request of this government, by Mexi-
can troops
Says Murderers Are Protected.
Incursions have been made into
American territory, depredations and
murders have taken place on American
SOIL American garrisons have been at
tackled at night and American soldiers
killed and their property and horses
stolen, American ranches have been
raided and American trains wrecked
and plundered, murders characterized
by ruthless brutality and uncivilized
acts of mutilation," have been perpe-
trated. Representations have been
made to stop these Outrages to no eff
feet. Towns in northern Mexico have
only harbored the perpetrators and $50
far has the Indifference Of the de factO
government gone that some of these
leaders have received not only the pro-
lection of the Mexican government, but
encouragement and aid as WE'LL"
The note enumerates nine raids last
September as typical, recites in detai2
the successive steps taken to prevent
the attack on the Cusi mining property
which eliminated in the Santa ISABEL
massacre" and the subsequent pursuit
of the bandits which, to date, has re-
suited in the capture of only one band
it by the Mexican government.
Allowed Villa to Escape.
Taking up the operations of Villa,
the note charges that Villa was per-
mitted to remain for days in the vi
cinity of Cast unattached, that his
progress toward the American border
was unimpeded by single Carranza
soldier, eliminating in the attack on
Columbus. The note charges that no
effort was made by Carranza to stop
Villas flight, although, in his retreat
he passed within sight Of the Carranza
garrison at Casas Grandes.
Declaring that this government had
no recourse but to run Villa down, the
note charges that the cooperation or
assistance in the field" which General
Carranza promised the punitive expe-
1ition has never been Forthcoming. It
charges that the Carranza soldiers, in
an attack on United States troops at
Parral, "arrayed themselves on the
side of outlawry and became in effect