The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-24
BANDITS PUNISHED,
MEXICANS DECLARE
Carranza Aid Offers ExpIana-
ton of Cheyenne Boat
Incident.
AFTER C0RRELL SLAYERS
Various villa Documents Re-
covered in JuareZ to Be
Published Soon.
AFTER CORRELL SLAYERS


counts Of the robbing OF American sail
ors from the u. S. S. Cheyenne on July
81 and of deaths Of Americans, were
given out to-day by Gen. Juan Barra-
gan, chief OF the Presidential stan. In
the form of governmental dispatches,
One of these stated that the sailors
went UP the river Temesi into rebel ter
ritory.
Gen. Ricardo Gonzalez, chief OF the
Tampico garrison. in a despatch report
ing on the murder of John W. Cornell
near Tampico on June 16. stated that
the murder was committed by Temesi
bandits, and that he had ordered a pur-
suit of the outlaws, and that four of
the bandits had been killed and twenty
horses recovered in a fight at the ban
dts headquarters
Other official dispatches on deaths OF
Americans placed the responsibility for
the incidents in some cases upon the
men killed.
Gen. Barragan also announced that
tomorrow there would be made public
various documents belonging to the ar
chives OF the bandit villa" recovered in
Juarez, including "a letter addressed to
Villa by Col. Charles F. Hunt, Offering
to have Senator Fall On. NJ and
others" visit the bandit In an effort to
aid the latter's campaign.
FLAMES United states Sailors.
Among the dispatches furnished by
Gen. Barragan to the Associated Press
was one from Gen. Gonzales regarding
the Cheyenne case. in which the chief
of the Tampico garrison says:
This was due to their (American
sailors) imprudence, for. without advis-
Ing with Mexican military headquarters,
where they could have learned how far
nNt,lA FOL No
river. they ventured beyond the last out
post into rebel territory and were robbed
of one watch, a little money and their
shoes"
Gen. Gonzales reports that he has
called the attention of the American
Consul to this fact, and also that he has
given orders that nobody shall pass the
last Mexican outposts IN the future.
The killing of Hiram Hughes, an
American, near Tampico on July 4 &C.
CURED. according to the Gonzales des-
patches, after Hughes. while intoxicated
had insulted passersby and had been
arrested. Asked II he carried arms
Hughes is alleged to have replied in the
negative. but a gendarme found pistol
in his pocket. Hughes is then declared
10 have shot the gendarme in the hand
end was himself mortally wounded in
the ensuing struggle
The death of Peter Catron Con or about
July - is blamed by Gen. Gonzales on
Catron's neighbors, who robbed him of
cattle. The names OF the slayers are
known and Gonzales has promised their
early capture.
The statement given out by Gen. Bar
ragan and referring to the Villa docu-
ments concludes:
These documen ts are very important.
for Senator Fall is of those who have
heen working the hardest Against our
Government In the American Senate"
Mexican Press stirred.
The constantly increasing space de-
voted by Mexico city newspapers during
the last few weeks to the relations be-
tween the United States and Mexico
eliminated to-day in the issue of an
extra edition of the Ell Universal. carry
ing the seven column headline, Mexico
and the United States" Underneath is
smother seven column headline in smaller
type. saying, United States Press At
firms Preparations Continue for Armed
Intervention; Gen. Dickman Chief OF
Southern Operations"
The body of the reading matter con.
tains summaries of stories. most OF them
taken from New York newspapers and
sent by special correspondents or clip
I.ng bureaus, regarding recent Incidents
in Mexico involving Americans, such as
the Cheyenne affair at Tampco and the
reported mobilization of large armed
forces along the frontier. Other stories
tell of anti-Mexican cartoons appearing
in American papers and OF declarations
" 18th regard to Mexico made by Under
Secretary OF State Polk and Major CT en-.
Leonard Wood.
Part of the extra is given over TO a
story printed in the New York World
discounting the Intervention stories.
Mention is made OF a recent report
published here that officers of the Amer
team Army OF Occupation in Germany
are busily studying a campaign for an
invasion of Mexico. Side by side with
the intervention stories from the United
States are news reports, editorials and
Interviews with Government officials re-
Harding the Correll, Cheyenne and other
Incidents involving Americans.
The newspapers OF the capital have
been publishing statements by various
personages. notably Ygnacio Bonillas,
Ambassador to the United States and
Gen. Candida Aguilar. former Foreign
Minister. dealing with the present cor
dial relations between the United States
and Mexico and Mexico's anxiety to en-
act legislation. especially regarding oil
claims, that will satisfy all parties.
Although a great volume of matter
has been printed regarding incidents
which may affect the present interna-
tional relations, much reserve has been
shown by Government officials whose
positions are high enough to give their
statements authority.
Due to the serious Illness Of his wife,
President CarranZa has been forced to
absent himself from the executive Of
fee for several days. The President
authorized statement to the Associated
Press after the crossing of the fronfier
recently at Juarez by American troops
has been the only official statement from
him on the international situation.
Gen. Juan Barragan. chief OF the
Presidential Staff. is quoted to-day by
the Excelsior as saying that the Govern
ment has ordered a strict investigation
OF recent incidents in the Tampico re-
gion and the proper punishment OF those
guilty OF these offences, In the story
containing this interview the newspaper
adds that foreigners have been presum-
ing too much on the immunity they be-
lieved was due to aliens who venture
into rebel territory. thereby adding to
the difficulties of the Government and
the military commanders In the dis
tuTbed zones.
An unnamed Government official is
onotad dacla ring that tho Chavanna