The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-02
Continued Presence Of Yankee
Forces South Of Rio .Grande
Constitutes. An 'UnsupportabIe
Situation That Must Be Ended
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
: DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY
Permission Never Given BY De
Facto Government and Was
Forced Upon City Of Mexico
Without Regard For Any Rights

WASHINGTON, June l.
w The continued presence of
American troops in Mexico, con-
stitutes an "unsupportable situa-
ton" that must be ended if the
United States hopes to keep the
friendship of that republic.
Such is the gist of note, con-
4 tanning more than 1900 words,
sent by General Carranza, head of
the defacto government in Mexi-
co, to the state department and
made public last night. Doctor
Arredondo, the Carranza repre-
sentative in Washington, deliver
ed it to Secretary of State Ian
sing yesterday afternoon. more
than a week after it is believed to
have left the City of Mexico.
The note reiterates the Carran-
"a demand that the United States
government recall General Per-
shing at once. and insist that this
country give immediate explana-
ton" of the continued presence Of
the punitive expedition in Mexi-
CO..
Raids Fault of Americans
1t repeats the argument used by
General Oregon during his con-
ferences with Generals Scott and
Funston, at Juarez, that America
should withdraw from Mexico in
order to prove to the world and to
Mexico that Washington does
not desire war with the southern
Republic. 1t declares that the
raids OF the bandits upon Boquil-
las, and Glenn Springs could have
been averted if the soldiers under
Pershing had been patroling the
border instead of being hundreds
of miles south Of the line
Continuing, the note declares
that the United States has belied
its own proteStation of disinter-
cstedness in dealing with Mexico,
The acts of the American gov
ernment," saws the note, "are in
entire contradiction of its protests
of friendship to Mexico Its gov
eminent has, time and again, as
serted that it did not intend to in
terfere in the internal problems
that confront this nation. Yet it
has done just that
No Permission For Invasion
The. note then proceeds to re-
cite the facts Of the crossing of
the border by General Pershing,
under the orders of General Funs-
ton, and declares that this action
was taken by the Washington
government without the permits
sion of the de facto government of
Mexico, or the lawfully constitut-
ed authorities
This" says the communica-
ton, "was not then considered an
invasion of Mexico, as the United
States went to pains to assert that
its officials had misinterpreted the
attitude of Mexico toward the
project of sending force to Kill
d or capture the bandit Villa. .
But after the first expedition
was sent and its missIGa appa-
rently had failed, second exps-
. dition, under the command, OF
Colonel Sibley. was sent into
Mexico, following the raids by
outlaws upon the towns OF Bo-
quillas and Glen Springs.
:, "These raids would have been
prevented had the troops under
General Pershing been doing duty
as border guard instead of having been
several hundreds of miles south"
Carranza's Wrath Stirred
This second expedition seems TO have
stirred the wrath Of General CarTanza
and his staff, civil and military, even
more than the first, for the note says:
t "The administration at Washington
asserted that this second expeditions
was undertaken with the consent of the
Mexican consul in Del Rio, Texas. Be
that as ID nay, this act was, utterly
untenRble, and gan be considered in no
other light than that of an invasion