The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-19
CARRANZA GETS
ANOTHER NOTE
Latest Epistle From U. s. Re-
monstrates at Capture of
Yankee Filters.
ACTION CALLED SERIOUS
Mexicans Urged to Obtain Re-
lease of Officers, Says
Secretary Lansing.
ACTION CALLED SERIOUS
Special pe.potcA TO tn, sux.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-Still follow
ing the policy of watchful waiting
and voluminous note writing, the des.
patch Of another communication to the
Carranza Government was announced
by the State Department to-day. The
note was not made public, but 1t,
contents were described in officia
statements from the State Depart.
ment. The note dealt with the two
army aviators held by border bandits
for a ransom Of $4,000. This state.
ment was made public by Secretary
of State Lansing:
Tho Department Of State has tele-
graphed instruction to the American
Embassy at Mexico city to immedi-
ately call upon the Mexican Govern
ment for quick action TO effect the
release OF Lieuts. Paul H. Davis and
Harold g. Peterson of the United
States Army Air Service. captured by
Mexican bandits near Candelaria,
Tex. while patrolling the border and
threatened with death to-day upon
failure to pay $4,000 ransom. The
instructions pointed out the serious
ness with which the United States
Government views this situation and
called for immediate adequate action.
The Department also directed the
American Consul at Juarez, Mexico,
to take all possible steps with the
Mexican authorities there to secure
release and protection of the officers.
The attention of the Department
was called to the Davis case late last
night by Representative Barber OF
California, and telegraphic instruc-
tions were rushed to the Embassy
and the Consulate. The officers
father, DR.. Warren D. Davis of
Strathmore, Cal, was advised of the
steps taken In behalf Of his son. The
Governor of Minnesota telegraphed
to the Department to-day regarding
the two Lieutenants and was advised
of the steps which the Department
had taken. Peterson is a son Of S. C.
Peterson of Hutchinson, MINI.
A second official statement was as fol.
lows:
Mexican rebels under Valentino
Relies are said to be holding DR.. A.
Goenaga, a Porto Rican, FOR ransom
on the AJusco Mountains in ne vicin-
ity of Mexico city. letter which
ceived from Goenaga, dated July 20,
stated that the rebels threaten to
kill hiri unless ransom of several
thousand pesos should be paid by
August 16 last.
The American Embassy. immedi-
ately upon learning OF this statement,
made representations to the Foreign
once at Mexico city, as the result
OF which the Foreign once yesterday
reported that the Mexican Federal
troops have been hurriedly sent to
the rescue and that the Mexican Gov
ernment Is inclined to pay the ram
som II necessary to save the prison.
er's life.
Other dispatches received to-day
from Mexico state that bandits oper-
ating near Jiminez, according to a
telegram from Jiminez to Chihuahua
Friday, attacked trucks of the AL
verado Mining and Milling Company
while they were on, their way to Par
raj and that Leslie Webb, and Amer
ican employee of the company, was
slightly injured. and that bandits
raided the Office of the Pennsylvania
Mexico Fuel Company, an American
corporation. at Tuxpam Thursday
night, according TO a telegram from
that company to Tampico. In the
latter raid $4,000 pesos are said to
have been taken. No person was In
iured during the raid.