Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-06-23
REJECTS DEMAND
President Wilson, in Strong Note
to Carranza, Flatly Refuses to
Withdraw American Troops
From Mexico.

Washington, June 2O.-The Am
"; an note, fatty rejecting General
Cal ahza,s demand for Il withdrawal
LOT the United States trooDs from
Mexico, was handed to Eliseo Are
nate here today. 1t was addressed to
the Mexican secretary of foreign re-
at'ons and was signed by Secretary
Lansing.
| would be wanting in candor,"
says the opening paragraph, "if
ana not, before making answer to
the allegations of fact and the CON
clusioEs reached by your government,
express the surprise and regrct
winch have been caused this govern
mcnt by the di8ruurteous tone of this
last communication Of the de facto
government of Meyica.
CONTINUOUS BLOODSIED.
"rhr government of the Unitnl
States has viewed with decp concern
progress of the revolution i'm Mexico.
Continuous hloodshed and disorders
hive marked its progress. Fol three
years the Mexican republic has been
torn with civil strife; the lies of
Amcrieans and ether ;.liens have been
sacriiiced; vast properties developed
by American capital and enterprise
have been destroyed or rendered non
productive. Bandits have been per
mitted to roam ut will through the
territory contiguous to the United
States and to seize without punish
ment or without effective attempt at
punishment the property of Ameri-
cans, while the lives Of citizens of
the United States who ventured to
remain in Mexicun territory or to
return there to protect their inter
derers have neither been apprchcnd-
ed nor brought to justice. 1t would
be difficult to find in the annals of
history of Mexico, conditions more
ieplorabe than those which have ex-
lsted there during these recent wears
Of civil war"
BORDER OUTRAGES.
The note, which contains about g.
300 words, then recitcs at length the
border depredations of the last nine
American garrisons have been at
lacked at night American soldiers
killed and their horses and equip
nent stolen, American ranches have
been raidcd and American trains
wrecked and plundcred. In these at
tacks. 1t adds, Carranzista adhcrents
and even Carranzista soldiers tool: |
part in the lootng, burning and kill !
ing.
Dcpredations upon American per-
sons and property within American
jurisdiction haze been still more nu-
mcrous, says the noe, in making ref |
erence to the Santa Ysabel massacre
of January 10, and adds:
General CarranZa stated to the |
agent of the department of state that
he had issued orders for the imme-
diate pursuit, capture and punish
mcnt of those responsible for this |
Gtrocous crime and appealed to this
government and to the American peo-
pie TO consider the difficulties of ac-
cording protection along the railroad
where the massacre occurred. ~
DECLARED OUTLAWS.
1t is true that Villa, Castro, and Lo-
PEI were publicly declared to be out
laws and subject to apprehension and
execution, but so far as known, only !
Il single man, personally connected
with this massacre, has been brought |
to justice by Mexican authorities.
Within month after this barbarous
slaughter of inoffensive Americans it |
was notorious that Villa was operat-
ing within twenty miles of Cusihui- |
rachic, and publicly stated that his
purpose was to destroy American
lives and property. Despite repeated
and insistent demands that military
protection should be furnished Am
orleans, Villa openly carried on his
operations, constantly approaching
closer and closer to the border. He
was not intercepted, nor were his
mr. to H., e al
de facto government and no effectual
attempt was made to Illustrate his
hostile designs against Americans.
Villas unhindered activities cul-
minated in the unprovoked and cold
blooded attack upon American citi-
zens and soldiers in the town of CO.
lumbus, on the night of March 9th.
AFTER numbering, burning, and
fleeing south, passed within sight of
the Carranzista military post at Ca
sas Grandes and no attempt was
made to stop him by the garrison of
the de facto government stationed
| there"
PURSUIT HALTED.
The note then refers to the pursuit
of the Columbus raiders by the Am
erican forces as far as Para, "where
the pursuit was halted by the hos
tolty of MeXicans presumed to be
loyal to the de facto government, and
who became in effect the protectors
of Villa and his band"
| Negotiations with the Mexican dc
tacto government direct and the
Scott-Obregon conference regarding
the first American expedition into
Mexico are discussed in the note.
First Car Over Princeton Line.