The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-12-05
BREAK Wn1 MEXICO.
IS DRAWING CLOSER
SHARP MESSAGE ls GIVEN TO
SENIOR eoNiLLAs BY sEcRE-
TARY LANSING
ANOTHER AMERICAN KILLED
Word Of Death Of Still Another Amer
lean Received, He Being Tortured
by BAndits-Mexico Refuses to
Release jenkins From Jail

San Antonio. Texas, Nov. 29.--Me,
lean Consul De La Mata, statione
here, last night received a Telegram
from Jose Marcias, president of tn
National University of Mexico, tina
passports had been refused TO Mrs
Eugenia Torres Melendes, and Mis-
Hermanilla Galindo, delegates to tn
Pan-American round table conference
which meets here next week.
Washington, Nov. %. = Anothe
American murdered in Mexico, close oil
Jenkins, coupled with reports of rev
olution in Mexico City with Carranzs
In flight to Queretaro. added complex
tiles yesterday which seemed to force
the already tense Mexican situation
toward the long expected breaking
point. There were no official pro-
nouncements for the guidance of pub
lie opinion as to what action if any
the American government might be
contemplating.
Administration officials, however,
by Indication, were willing to show
that the government is taking firm
position, considering the eventualities,
and is prepared to deal with them
once a course is chosen.
Another of the last straws," as one
official put it. was laid on yesterday
with the official report of the murder
of W. M. Wallace, an American oil
man, by Carranza soldier, near Tam
pico on Wednesday The state depart
ment summarized its advices in this
formal statement:
James Wallace, an American em-
ploye of an American oil company,
near Tampico, was murdered by
Mexican federal soldier at Portrero
del Liano on Wednesday, November
26. The murderer was not taken into
custody.
vices the officer in charge Of troops
camped In the vicinity claimed that
Wallace had provoked the murder.
The department has been informed as
4. result Of an investigation, that
mule on which Wallace was riding to
the place Of his employment SHE'D at
4 machine gun which 1t was passing,
everturnIng the guu. The soldier i'm
shot Wallace, the bullet
striking him in the neck and killing
him instantly"
The Wallace referred to Is believed
here to be w. NJ. Wallace. an employe
of the Gulf Refining company, famil--
ariy known to his associates as Jim.
Wallace recently went to Tampico
lfter having been in Colombia for the
gulf company. He was about 40
vears old.
The Mexican American Ambassador, |
znacio Bonillas, called on Secretary |
lansing at the state department yes
erday and they not only went over
he Jenkins case, but MIR. Lansing also |
aid before the Mexican envoy the re-
ort on the killing of Wallace, which |
ad just been received. Their confer
nee was, of course. confidential, but |
/ is understood the secretary convey
q to President Carranza's representa-
i've a message more fOrceful and d.
ect than any yet transmitted in any
iplOmatic note.
Mr.. Bonillas was informed that the
apartment placed no credence in the
harges on which Jenkins is held in
all at Puebla, in which the Mexican
overnment declines to intervene, and
is understood that Mr.. Lansing fur
Ter outlined to the ambassador the
,evitabIe consequences of continued
urders and molestations of Ameri-
ms probably more pOintedly than was
Dne In the governments note of last
lly.
About the same time word came Of | ;
Ie death of another American as the
guilt OF brutal treatment by bandits
no held him for ransom. He was
ito Lund, Of Swedish birth, nat
allied American, who died of blood !
,isoning after being held for ransom
We months In the state Of Mayarit.
Is captors chopped off one of his
ngers with foul weapon and
raped 1t with their written demand
r ransom money, which they sent to
3 friends in Topic. Blood poisoning
ID gangrene killed the man, while J
! wife, an American woman, and n
cir child are reported In want In t
pic. 10
and report on the new g
ases Of the Jenkins case, raised In t
\ Nexican note refpsfng to meet this t
demand for the consular v
ent's iH,mediate release, already are e
der way. Q
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