The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-21

and enterprise .have been DESTROYED
or rendered non-productive; bandits
have been permitted to riot at will
through the territory CONTIGUOUS to the
United States and to seize, without
punishment or without effective at
tempt at punishment, the property of
Americans, while the lives of citizens
OF the United States who ventured
to remain in Mexican territory or to
return there to protect their inter-
ests have been taken and in some
cases barbarously taken, and the mur-
derers have neither been apprehenda ed
nor brought to justice. 1t would be
difficult to find in the annals of the
history of Mexico conditions more de-
plorable than those which have exist-
ed there during these recent years f
civil war
Representations we're made to Cen
eral Carranza and he was emphatical-
ly requested to stop tkbse reprehen-
sible acts in a section which he has
long claimed to be under the complete
domination of his authority. Notwith-
standing these representations and the
promise of General Nafarrete to pre-
vent attacks along the international
boundary, in the following month of
October a passenger train was wreck
ed by bandits and several persons kill
ed seven miles north of Brownsville,
and an attack was made upon United
Sfotnc a bo COZ
al days later.
"Since these attacks leaders of the
bandits. well known both in Mexican
civil and military authorities as we'll
as to American officers, have been
enjoying with impunity the liberty of
the towns of northern Mexico. So far
has the difference of the de facto
government to those atrocities gone
that some of the leaders, | am adj
vised, have received not only the pro
lection Of that government, but en-
couragement and aid as we'll.
The note goes on to cite raid after
raid and outrage after outrage, includ-
ing the memorable Columbus affair,
and continues:
''In the face of these depredations.
the perpetration of which
General CarranZa vas unable or pos
sibly considered it inadvisable to ap-
prehend and punish, the United States
had no recourse other than to employ
force to disperse the bands of Mexican
| outlaws who were with increasing
boldness Systematically raiding across
the international boundary. The ma
| rauders engaged in the attack on Co
lumbus were driven back across the
border by American cavalry, and sub
sequently, as soon as a sufficient force
to cope with the band could be col
lected, were pursued into Mexico in an
effort to capture or destroy them.
American forces pursued the
| lawless bands as far as Parral, where
| the pursuit was halted by the hostility
| of Mexicans, presumed to be loyal to
the de facto govrnment, who arrayed
themselves on the side of outlawry
and became in effect the protectors
of Villa and his band
I'm this manner and for these rea-
sons have the American forces enter
ed Mexican territory. Knowing fully
the circumstances set forth the de
facto government cannot be blind to
the necessity which compelled this
government to act and yet it has seen
fit to recite groundless sentiments of
hostility toward the expedition and to
impute to this government Interior
motives for the continued presence
of American troops on Mexican soil"
The note was ha"ded to Eliseo Ar
redondo, the Mexican ambassador des-
ignate for delivery to his government.