The Benson signal., 1916-06-24
TWO MEXICAN STATES DECLARE
WAR AND ORDER AMERl-
CANS INTERNED.
.U.S.W|LL WITHDRAW
PRESIDENT SENDS REFUSAL TO
COMPLY WITH GEN. CAR
RANZA'S DEMAND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June :O.-Dispatches
from San Antonio say Mexican gov
ernment troops were reported last
night to be marching toward Del Rio,
a border town about 100 miles up the
Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, with
the announced intention of attacking
the Americans there.
This information was the most not
able bit of evidence indicating the at
titude of the de facto government
that reached Gen. Funston Monday. 1t
was brought to the border by Mexi-
can, who said the force was 1,500
strong.
Col. Frederick w. Sibley, Four
teenth cavalry, who commanded the
expedition entering Mexico after the
Glenn Springs raid, is in command at
Del Rio. 1t was believed here that he
| was prepared to take care of his posi-
ton, but, to make his position more
certain, Gen. Greene sent from Eagle
Pass in motor trucks battalion of
the InlrQ infantry.
The Mexican force reported moving
north is believed to be the same force
sent north by Gustavo Mireles Espi-
nosa, governor of Coahuila, with in
structions to drive Col. Sibley's force
from Mexico when the colonel was
operating south of Glenn Springs.
An ultimatum amounting practical
| ly to a declaration of war against the
United States was served Sunday on
Commander Arthur G. Kavanaugh Of
Carranza governor of the state of
Sinaloa, according to a radiogram
sent from the Annapolis to Mazatlan
and received by Admiral Winslow,
| commander in chief of the Pacific
| fleet at San Diego.
Owing to the low-powered radio set
of the Annapolis, difficulty has been
experienced in communicating with
| the gunboat, but enough facts have
come through to indicate that Gen.
Flores took a hostile stand against
Americans and that it was his refusal
to permit Americans to leave Mazat-
Ian that resulted in the clash Sunday
between bluejackets of the Annapolis
and Mexicans characterized as Car
rama soldiers.
There are approximately $50 Amer
leans in Cananea, according to relia-
BILE information. The problem of get
ting them out of Mexico without Gre
ating more bitter feeling among the
Mexicans is trying one.
The American reply to Carranza's s
note demanding Gen. Pershing's with
drawal is expected to go forward to-
day, sternly refusing to accede to that
demand.
Gen. Carranza in a statement to the
press reiterated his declaration that
any movement of American troops,
except to the northward, would be
considered hostile and that Mexican
commanders had been ordered to re-
pei it if made.
An Ell Paso dispatch states that
Gen. Pershing moved troops in all
directions Monday, in defiance of Gen.
Trevinos dead line"
Clashes such as that between Mex
ican troops and American bluejackets
at Mazatlan show that relations are
strained to the breaking point.
dispatcn from Galveston, Tex,
says that the Mexican government in
Yucatan has issued a proclamation
ordering all Americans out of Mexico
and declaring state of war existing
| between the two countries.
Governor de la Huerta, in charge of
| the state of Sonora, issued orders Sat
urday, say Douglas, Ariz., dispatches,
calling on Mexicans to arm against
Americans. Many Americans at Ca
nanea, on the Mexican side. were at
a dance, and it is said that these were
herded to their homes like cattle.
More than 10000 persons gathered
in the great square in Mexico City
bounded by the cathedral and munich
pal palaces, where they were ad
dressed by Gen. Carranza, War Min
lister ObregOn and other members Of
| the government.