New Britain herald., 1916-01-22
|DEATH ID AMERICANS SAY MEXICAN REBELS
Mill War to, a Finish Against
 CarranZa

|, Washington, Jan. 22.-Death 70 Americans in Mexico and destruction E-of their property, as we'll as war to a finish against Carranza was deter | mined upon, it became known here
 last night at. formal convention of 1 Mexican revolutionary leaders held in | November at a, ranch near Cordoba
 Present and joining in the agree
 ment are said to have been repre- sentatives of Villa, zapata, Argumedo,
 Higinio ag1ilar, the Cedillo brothers and many lesser chieftains.
 l Meager reports of this gathering l cameto the state department long ago but they were not made public, and until last night few people in Wash | ington knew that there was a general l conspiracy against americans. or 1 even that the various rebel faction in 1 the field in Mexico had effected any kind of an agreement for concerted activities against the de facto govern ment.
 Rebel Convention Order. The recent massacre at Santa Ysabel, attributed to bandits led by Villa officers, is believed to have been perpetrated in accordance with the ! the long period elapsed after the Cordoba meeting before the murders because of the time required by the various delegates to make reports to their commanders, and the fact that news of the convention's decision had to be carried to subordinate military commanders by courier. Cordoba is on the railroad between Vera Cruz and NTo ok from Santa Ysabel.
 The Carranza authorities have been fully advised concerning the move ments of the rebels, and have been depended upon by the Washington government to take every possible pre- caution to prevent the threats against Americans from being carried out. They are believed to have the situation fairly we'll in hand now, although the chiefs whose delegates met at Cor doba still are in the field, operating more or less openly.
 Soon after Carranza was recognized, the state department withdrew it's consular officers from northern Mexi- co and reiterated it's warning to Americans to leave. Only by getting citizens of the United States away rom IeII1lOIy Hol Iully ColllIO1lcI DS the facto government it was realized could, there be any real assurance of safety.
 Few Details Known.
 Few details of the Cordoba conven- tion are known, but according to the reports, it lasted for several days and some of the earlier arrivals awaited probably weeks for all the delegates to appear. Apparently, the call for the meeting was sent out as soon as 1t became certain the United States was about to recognize Carranza, although
 it was a month after recognition ac- tually had been accorded before the delegates got together. At that time large forces of Villa and Zadpa ta forces were operating near Mexico City to as- were operating in the neighborhood of the railroads near mexico City in assemble and do it's work with con1- parative safety from Interruption.
 Whether there is any great proba bility of continued concert of action among the factions fighting Carranza, officials here do not profess to know. Some information has reached here to indicate that money may be forth coming to finance a revolution on a considerable scale with the sope of enlisting the support of all the rebels, but officials last night, said there were no reports to show that such a move ment actually was under way.