The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-20

The text or the note FOLLOWS:
 The Secretary of State to the Sec retaryzof Foreign Relations of the de facto government of Mexico:
 DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
 x WASHINGTON, JUNE 20, 1916 Sir: have read your communica- ton which was delivered to me on May 22, 1916, under instructions of the chief executive of the de facto government of Mexico, on the subject of the presence of American troops in Mexican territory and would be wanted in candor if I did not before
 making answer to the allegations of fact and the conclusions reached by your government, express the sur prise and regret which have been
 caused this government by the dis
 courteous tone and temper of this last
 communication Of the de facto- gov
 ernment of Mexico.
 States has viewed with deep concern
 and increased disappointment the progress of the revolution In Mexico.
 Continuous bloodshed and disorders have marked its progress. For three
 years the Mexican republic has been
 torn with strife; the lives of Aneri-
 cans and other aliens have been sacri-
 feed; vast properties developed by American capital and enterprise have
 been destroyed or rendered non-pro-
 ductive; bandits have been permit
 ted to roam at will through the ter ritory contiguous to the United States and to seize, without punishment or without effective attempt at punish ment, the property of Americans, while the lives of citizsns of the Unit ed States, who ventured to remain in
 Mexican territory or to return there to protect their interests have been taken. in some cases barbarous1y talk
 en, and murderers have neither been
 apprehended nor brought to justice.
 It would be difficult to find in the an- nals of the, history of Mexico condi- tions more dep1orable than those which have existed there during these
 recent years of civil war.
 Outrage After Outrage.
 It would be tedious to account ad- vance after advance, outrage after outrage on our country, to illustrate the true nature and extent of the wide spread conditions of lawlessness and l violence which have prevailed. Dur | ing the past nine months in particular | the frontier of the United States along the lower Rio Grande has been thrown into a state of constant appreh ] and turmoil because of frequent and sudden incursions and depredations and murders on American soil by Mexican bandits, who have taken the lives and destroyed the property of Am erican citizens, sometimes carrying | American citizens across the interna- 1 tional boundary with the booty seized American garrisons have been at | tackled at night. American soldiers 1 killed and their equipment and horses | stolen; ranches have been raided | property destroyed and stolen, Amert- l can trains wrecked and plundered
 The attacks on Brownsville, Red
 House Ferry, Progresso Post Office | and Las Peladas, all occurring during l Septen Der last, are typical. In these | attacks on American territory Car | ranzista adherents and even Carran-
 zistas soldiers took part in the footing
 burning and killing. Not only were 1 these murders cferacterized by ruth 1 less brutality but uncivilized acts o1 | ml1tflation were perpetrated. Rep resentations were made to Genera
 Carranza and he was emphaHcally re
 quested to stop these reprehensible