The log cabin Democrat., 1916-06-26
HOPE 10 AVERT
 WAR ABANDONED
DECLARATION EXPECTED
Acknowledgment of Responsibility by Mexicans for Carrizal Attack AL
 most Certain to Cause War.

Although no formal declaration of was has as yet been made against Mexico, hope of averting hostilities has been practically abandoned and it is generally believed today that a dec laration will follow the answer to Secretary Lansing's stern note to Carranza yesterday.
 In communication received by the state department Saturday night the Carranza government acknowledged responsibility for the attack upon American troops at Carrizal This communication is considered as a formal avowal of deliberately hostile action against the forces of the United States now in Mexico. In MT. Lansing's note is is clearly inti- mated that force will be met with force. Apparently, however, the Washington government is determin- ed that the Carranza government shall not evade responsibility before the world if war is forced on the United States.
 The text of the note to the Mexican de facto government, transmitted yes terday to James Linn Rodgers, special representative of the American gov ernment in Mexico City, says:
 "Mr. Arredondo yesterday delivered to this government the following com munication
 am directed by my government to inform your excellency, with refer ence to the Carrizal incident, that the chief executive, through the Mexican War Department, gave orders to Gen eral Jacinto B. Trevino not to permit American forces from General Per shlng's column to advance further south, nor to move either east or west from the point where they are located, and to oppose new incursions of Amer ican soldiers into Mexican territory. These orders were brought by General Trevino to the attention of General Pershing, who acknowledged the re- ceipt of the communication relative thereto. On the 22nd instant, as your excellency knows, an American force moved eastward quite far from it's base, notwithstanding the above or ders, and was engaged by Mexican troops at Carrizal, state of Chihuahua. As a result of the encounter, several men on both sides were killed and wounded and IF American soldiers were made prisoners
 "You are hereby instructed to hand to the minister of foreign relations of the de facto government the follow ing:
 "'The government of the United States can put no other construction upon the communication handed to the Secretary of State of the United States on the twenty-fourth of June by Mir. Arredondo under instruction of your government, than that it is intended as formal avowal of de- liberately hostile action against the forces of the United States now in Mexico, and of the purpose to attack them without provocation whenever they move from their present posi- tion in pursuance of the objects for which they were sent there, nothwith- standing the fact that those objects not only involve no unfriendly inten- iton toward the government and peo- pie of Mexico, but are on the contrary intended only to assist that govern ment in protecting itself and the ter ritory and people of the United States against irresponsible and insurgent bands of rebel marauders.
 "'I am instructed, therefore, by my government to demand the immediate release of the prisoners taken in the encounter at Carrizal, together with any property of the United States taken with them, and to inform you that the government of the United States expects an early statement from your government as to the course of action it wishes the government of the United States to understand it has determined upon, and that it also expects this statement to be made through the usual diplomatic channels and not through subordinate military commanders