Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-06-22
CARRANzA GETS
SINGING REPLY
First Chiefs Men Protect Ban
dts, Lansing Charges.
U. S. ARMY TO STAY IN MEXICO

Head of Mexican Government Is Told
That If He Carries Out Threat to
Attack "the Gravest Consequences
Will FoIIow-Charges of Bad Faith
Made in Note.
Washington, June 21-The Ameri.
can government threatened General
Carranza with "the gravest conse-
quences" if he attacks American
troops now in Mexico.
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. It
excoriated Carranzaa for his failure to
cooperate and resented his bursQue-
ness and his intimations of bad faith.
"The de facto government is pleased
! to ignore this obligation Ito protect
American rights and chase bandits),"
said the note, "and to believe that in
case of 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
cerity and friendship if it did not
| impress upon the de factO government
that the execution of this threat will:
lead to the grayest consequences"
Bluntly the note told Carranza that
this government Cannot recede from
it's national rights" and to prevent
further raids across the boundary.
The high lights of the note were:
'In these attacks Con specified Amer
lean towns) on American territory
Carranzista adherents, and even Car
ranzista soldiers, took part in the loot
ing, burning and killing"
"Since these attacks leaders of the
bandits, we'll known to both the Mexi-
can and civil and military authorities,
as we'll as to American officers, have
been enjoying with impunity the liber-
| ty of the towns of northern Mexico.
con Jan. 10, the train1was stopped
by Villa bandits and eighteen Of the
American party were stripped Of their
clothing and shot in cold blood, in.
what is now known as the Santa Ysa-
bel massacre
"Withfn a month afteer this barbar.
GUS slaughter of inoffensive Americans
it was notorious that Villa was operat-
ing within twenty miles Of CusihulrN
ACHE, and publicly stated that his pur-
pose was to destroy American lives
and property"
after numbering, burning and
plundering, Villa and his bandits, flee
ing south, passed within sight Of the
! Carranzista military post at Casas
Grandes, and no effort was made 70
stop him by the officers and garrison
! of the de facto government stationed
there"
"Whil this government would deep
lv regret such a result, it cannot re-
cede from it's settled determination to
maintain it's national rights and to
perform it's full duty in preventing
further invasions of the territory OF
the United States and in removing the
peril which Americans along the inter-
national boundary have borne so long
with patience and forbearance."
81 am reluctant to be forced to the
conclusion which might be drawn from
the circumstances" Secretary Lansing
declares, chat the. de facto govern
ment, 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 out
laws should be captured, destroyed or
dispersed by American troops, or, at
the request of this government, by
Mexican troops"
No Aim at Conquest.
The purposes of the United States
government toward Mexico, question
ed in the last Mexican note, are an
nounced in the following language:
eff a denial is needed that this gov
eminent has had Interior and impro'
per motives in it's diplomatic repre-
sensations, or has countenanced the
activities of American sympathizers
and the American press opposed to
the de facto government, am glad
most emphatically to deny it. It is,
however, a matter Of common knowl-
edge that the Mexican press has been
more active than the press of the
United States in endeavoring to in
fame the two peoples against each
other and to force the two countries
into hostilities."
Copies Given Diplomats.
The note was handed early Tuesday
to Elisio Arredondo, the Mexican am
bassador designate here, for transmits
sion to Mexico City. Copies were
furnished to all foreign embassies and
legations, and a summary cabled to
Special Agent Rodgers at the Mexican
capital for his information.
In addition to refusing to withdraw
the troops and warning that execution