New-York tribune., 1919-07-24
Official Report Asserts
Sailors Ventured Into
Territory of the Rebels
and Were r O b b e d
Sayings Explained
By Carranzistas
Disclosure Is Promised
To-day of Interview OF.
fered Villa With Fall


sociated Press) Official accounts of
the robbing of American sailors from
the U. S. S. Cheyenne on July and
Of deaths of Americans was given out
to-day by Genera Juan Barragan.
chief Of the presidential staff, in the
form Of governmental dispatches. One
Of these stated that the sailors went
up the river Tamesi into rebel terri
tory.
General Ricardo Gonzales, chief Of
the Tampico garrison, in a dispatch
reporting on the murder of John W.
Correll near Tampico on June 16 stat
ed the murder was committed by
Tamesi bandits, that he had ordered
pursuit of the outlaws and that four
of them had been killed and twenty
horses recovered in fight at their
headquarters.
Other official dispatches on deaths
of Americans placed the responsibility
for the incidents in some cases upon
the men killed.
Letter Names Senator Fall
General Bar1agan also announced
that tomorrow there would be made
public various documents belonging
to the archives of the bandit Villa"
recovered in Juarez, and including "a
letter addressed to Villa by Colonel
Charles F. Hunt, offering a visit from
Senator Fall and others, in an effort
to aid Villas campaign.'
Among the dispatches furnished by
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Press was one from General Gonzales
regarding the Cheyenne case, in which
the chief of the Tampico garrison says:
"This was due to their tAmerican
sailorsD imprudence, for, without ad-
vising with Mexican military headquar-
ters, where they could have learned
how far they could have passed safely
up the River Tamesi, they ventured be-
yond the last outpost into rebel terri
tory and were robbed Of one watch, a
little money and their shoes"
Must Stop at Outpost
General Gonzales reports that he has
called the attention of the American
Consul to this fact, and also that he
the last Mexican outposts in the future.
The killing of Hiram Hughes, an
American, near Tampico on July oc-
Cured, according to the Gonzales dis
patches. after Hughes, while intoxicat-
ed, had insulted passersby and had
been arrested. Asked if he carried
arms, Hughes is alleged to have replied
in the negative, but gendarme found
pistol in his pocket. Hughes is then
declared to have shot the gendarme in
the hand, and was himself mortally
wounded in the ensuing struggle.
The death of Peter Catron Con or
about July y is blamed by General
Gonzales on Catron's neighbors, who
robbed him of cattle. The names of
the slayers are known and Gonzales
has promised their early capture.
Promises Villa Disclosure
The statement given out by General
Barragan concludes as follows:
"To-morrow there will be made pub
lie various documents belonging to the
archives Of the bandit Francisco Villa,
which we're recovered in Juarez in the
last fight in that city. Among these
documents appears a letter addressed
to Villa by Charles F. Hunt Offering
Villa visit by Senator Fall and other
persons to confer with him (Villa) for
the purpose Of helping to push to sue
cess the campaign against the present
given by Villa.
tant, for Senator Fall is Of those who
have been working the hardest agains st
our government in the American Sem
ate"
Intervention Scare" Printed
The constantly increasing space de-
voted by Mexico city newspapers dur
ing the last few weeks to the relations
between the United States and Mexico
<oJ tn ha Af -,
extra edition Of Gel Universal" carry
ing the seven-column headline, "Mex-
leo and the United States" Under
meath is another seven-coiumn head
line in smaller type, saying: Omitted
States Press Affirm Preparations Con-
tinue for Armed Intervention: General
Dickman Chief of Southern Opera
tons"
The body of the reading matter con-
tains summaries Of stories, most Of
them taken from New York news
ents or clipping bureaus. regarding re-
cent incidents in Mexico involving
Americans, such as the Cheyenne affair
at Tampico and the reported mobiliza-
ton of large armed forces along the
frontier
Other stories tell of anti Mexican
cartoons appearing in American papers
and of declarations with regard to Mex
lco made by Assistant Secretary of
State Polk and Major General Leonard
Wood.
Refer to "Mexican Campaign"
Mention is made of recent report
published here that officers of the
american army of occupation in Ger
many are studying q campaign for an
invasion of Mexico.
The newspapers Of the capital have
been publishing statements by various
personagcs, notably Ygnacio Bonillas
Ambassador to the United States, and
General Candido Aguilar, former For
eign Minister, dealing with the present
cordial relations between the United
States and Mexico, and Mexico's anxi-
ETY. to enact legislation, especially re-
garding 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
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