The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-14
Official Washington Firm In
Belief That Forces Will Not
Be Withdrawn
BAKER ASKS FUNSTON
TO GET ALL DETAILS
Parral Clash Another Instance
Showing Carranza Openly
Hostile to United States--sit-
uation Critical

Washington. April President
Wilson and his cabinet tomorrow will
decide with her 10 Withdraw tho
American troops from Mexico at he
demand 81 Carranza limitations we're
given In high administration quarters
tonight that the troops viii not be
Withdrawn. though officials folly real
ize that this may mean war with
Csiranga though the adminlstfa tons
hands may be forced 10y the battle 1T
Psrral betv.een American troens and
Carran2a adherents.
Carrauza himself reported this bat
Tie ia . telegram to Secretary Lansing,
through Am hassador Arredeudo- Car
rama said many Americans had been
Killed by his people. He removed his
demand H. american troopg should
he withd aaNf
\ summary of the days develop
merits and the situation a. Il stands
tonight iS az follows: All bc%sador
Designate Arreaondo delivered 10 Sec-
Rotary lansing the note from k.s gov
eminent demanding withdrawal of
American troops.
The Mexican EN- hassy gave out tcie-
grams from Carranza and .Ngnilar his
foreign minister reporting the re-
sia;ance Of Carr2nistas to the entry
of troops IN Parrsl and the bloody
engagement that followed,
Secretary Of War Baker gave cut
n ke following staten eEI tonight 5;..~ =
secretary Baker ~lBstraetiona. 4
Il have teleeraphed General Fun
ston the contents uf the dispatches
given out by the Mexican embassy.
have instructed General Funston TO
take the NECESSARY steps To protect our
people and To prevent further trouble
- have asked him also 10 wire all
details ne can get as fast as he gets
them
Secretary Lansing insisted he had
nor entered into agreement with Ar
redondo on March %. as stated in the
tsrranzs note. TO limit the advance
Of troops into Mexico beyond the point
where they were then stationed Sec
retaries Lansing and Baker conferred
following which Secretary Baker said
the orders 20 the troops have not been
modified and that no orders % with
draw have been given.
President Wilson gave up his plan
p OF going TO New York for speech to.
morrow, deciding to remain at the
. White House to handle the situation.
/ President Wilson considered the ques-
ton OF calling ont the national guard
troops now on the border for duty in
Mexico. Army officials discussed the
availability Of 1900 men in the Goa st
artillery.
should Remain In Mexico.
A carTses OF sentiment in Congress
showed a prevailing opinion that the
t-oops should remain In Mexico.
The President and cabinet members
are understood to he considering
ty, -
effort to avoid an armed clash.
President Wilson and Sec. etary
Lansing maintained absolute silence
during the day IN regard To demands
made by Carranza in his note.
The official text was delivered TO
the state Department by Mr. Are
dondo at 2.30 this afternoon. Trans
iatlon Of the message which was in
Spanish, was not completed until after
Secretary Lansing had left the Stats
Department
The official text Is substantially the
same az the text published this morn
inr by the International News Ser
vice There were only slight changes
In ycrbiagc made in translation. none
Iog which changed any essential fact in
the message.
On top Of the demands made In this
note came the telegram from General
foreign minister. In which II was re-
newed with insistence that American
TROOPS should be withdrawn. They
were given out at the Mexican en-
fbassv The kilograms were accom-
named BY one from Andreas Garcia.
Mexican consul at FL Paso, who re-
ported that the Carranza garrison at
parraI participated In the attack on
American troops at Parrsl,
Immediate Action Urged.
later this evening tho embassy
gave out the following:
ri Paso, Texas, April is,-The mill
tary conmandsnt at Juarez has Just
received a message from General OBJ
reron informing him that yesterday
a, r. NJ, en- American force OF
80 soldiers OF those pursuing villa
nenetrated into Parral The authori-
,ies Of the city notified the chief of
INC force that they must Immediately
svacuate. The chief Of the force was
disposed to do so. when the people
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