The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-06-23
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 1.-The Gravest Consequences
Will FoIlow-Charges of Bad Faith
Made in Note.

Made in Note.
WASHINGTON d. C. = The Ameri-
Carranza TiCA the gravest conse-
quences" il lie attacks American
troops now in L1exico.
This threat was contained in a long
nCte replying to his last withdrawal
demazd
Full of short-arm diplomatic jabs,
the note positively declines to take
the American forces out of Mexico. It
eXcOrlated 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 thi3 obligation (ro protect
American rights and chase bandits),"
said the note, "and to believe that in
case of a 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
certify and friendship if it did not
impress upon the de facto government
that the execution of this threat will,
lead to the gravest consequences"
Bluntly the note told Carranza that
this government cannot recede from
its settled determination to maintain
it's national rights" and to prevent
further raids across the boundary.
The high lights of the note were:
'In these attacks (on 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 train was stopped:
by Villa bandits and eighteen of the
American party were stripped of their
clothing and shot in cold blood, int
what is now known as the Santa Ysa-
bel massacre
''Within a month afteer this barbar-
GUS slaughter of inoffensive Americans
it was notorious that Villa was operat-
ing within twenty miles of Cusihuirl!!
ACHE, and publicly stated that his pur-
pose was to destroy American lives
and property"
after numbering, burning and
plundering. Villa and his bandits, fiee-
ing south, passed within sight of the
Carranzista military post at Casas
Grandes, and no effort was made TO
stop him by the officers and garrison
of the de facto government stationed
there"
''Whil this government would deep
Iy regret such result, it cannot re-
cede from its 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, that 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 denial is needed that this gov
ernmert has had Interior and imprO-
per motives in its diplomatic repre-
sensations, OF has countenanced the
activities of American sympathizers
and the American press opposed to
the de facto government, | am glad
most emphatically to deny it. 1t 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
flame 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
of the threat to attack them will be
followed by the gravest consequences,
the note serves notice that as long as
the Carranza forces continue their
present attitude, no arms or ammuni-
ton. or machinery for their manufac-
ture. will be permitted to reach Mex