New Britain herald., 1916-06-20
CARRANzA REBUkED;
 DEMANDS REJECTED
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 can trains wrecked and plundered The attacks on Brownsville, Red House Ferry, Progreso post office and Las PaIadas, all occurring during September last, are typical In these attacks on American territory, Car ranzista adherents and even Car ranzista soldiers took part in the coting, burning and killing. Not cnIy were these murders character ized by ruthless brutality, but un- civilized acts of mutilation were per- petrated. Representations were made to General Carranza and he was en- phatically requested to stop these 1eprehensible acts in a section which he has long claimed to be un3er the complete domination of his authority. Notwithstanding these representations and the promise of General Nafarrete to prevent attacks along the interna- tional boundary, in the following month of October a passenger train was wrecked by bandits and several persons killed seven miles north of Brownsville and an attack made upon United States troops at the same place several days later.
 Carranza Indifferent.
 Since these attacks. leaders of the bandits well known both to Mexican civil and military authorities as well as to American officers, have been en- toying with impunity the liberty of the towns of northe ern Mexico. So far bas the indifference of the de facto government to these atrocities gone that some of the leaders, as I am advised, have received not only the protection of that government, but encouragement and aid as we'll
 Depredations upon American per so9s and property within Mexican Jurisdiction have been still more nu- merous. This government has re- peatedly requested, in the strongest terms, that the de facto government safeguard the lives and homes of Am erican citizens and furnish the protec- tiOn which international obligation imposes, to American interests in the north ern states of Tamaulipas, Nue. / vo Leon, COahuila, Chihuahua and So- no4a, and also in the states to the south. For example, on Jan. 3rd, troops were requested to punish the bands of outlaws which footed the Cusi Mining property, eighty miles west of Chihuahua, but no effective results came from this request Dur ing the following week the bandit Villa, With his band of about 200 men, was operating without opposition be- tween Rubio and Santa Ysabel fact well known to Carranzista authorities Meanwhile a party of unfortunate Americans started by train from Chi huahua to visit the Cusi after having receiving assurances from the Car ranZista authorities in the State of Chihuahua that the country was safe and that a guard on the train was not necessary. The Americans held pass ports or safe conducts issued by au- thorities of the de facto government On Jan. 10 the train was stopped by Villa bandits and eighteen of the Am erican party was stripped of their clothing and shot in cold blood, in what is now known as the Santa Ysa- bel Massacre"
 Carranza's Promises Empty
 NGen. Carranza stated to the agent of the state department that he had issued orders for the immediate pur- suit, capture and punishment of those responsible for this atrocious crime and appealed to this government and t0%he American people to consider the difficulties of according protection Iong the railroad where the massacre 0ccurred. Assurances were also giv- sn by MT. Arrendondo, presumably Under instructions from the de facto Government, that the murderers would be brought to justice, and that steps would also be taken to remedy the Iawless conditions existing in the state of Durango. It is true that Villa, Castro and Lopez were publicly de- clared to be outlaws and subject to Apprehension and execution, but so far as known only a single man per sonally connected with this massacre has been brought to justice by Mexi- can authorities
 Within month after this barbarous Slaughter of inoffensive Americans, it was notorious that Villa was operat- Ing within twenty miles of Cusihuiri- Achic and publicly stated that his pur- pose was to destroy American lives and property. Despite repeated and Insstent demands that military pro- lection should be furnished to Ameri- cans, Villa carried on his operations, constantly approaching closer and closer to the border. He was not in tercepted nor were his movements mpeded by troops of the de facto gov ernment and no effectual attempt was made to frustrate his hostile designs against Americans. In fact, as I am Mformed, while Villa and his band We're slowly moving toward the Amer lean frontier in the neighborhOod of Columbus, N. M, not a single Mexican