Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-24
|MExICANS FEAR
j. S. FORCES WILL
Invade COUNTRY
Newspapers Report America
Is Studying Plans for
Campaign Prepare
tory to War.

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leo and Mexieo's anxiety to enact
legislation, especially regarding oil
claims, that will satisfy all parties.
Officials Reserved.
Although great volume of mat
ter has been printed regarding Incl
dents which may affect the present
international relations, much reserve
has been shown by government Off
Gals whose positions are high
enough to give their statements au-
thority. President Carranza's au-
thorized statement to the Associated
Press on the crossing of the frontier
recently at Juarez by American
troops. has been the only official
statement from him on the interna-
tional situation.
Gen. Juan Barragan, chief of the
presidential staff, is quoted by the
Excelsior, as saying that the gov
eminent has ordered strict investi-
cation of recent incidents in the
Tampico region and the proper pun
ishment of those guilty of these Of
lenses. In the story containing
this interview the newspaper adds
that foreigners have been presuming
too much on the immunity they be-
lieved was due to aliens and ventur-
ing into rebel territory, thereby add
ing to the difficulties of the govern
ment and the military commanders
in the disturbed zones.
Concerned Over Status.
An unnamed government official
also is quoted as declaring that the
Cheyenne incident lacks importance;
that 1t cannot be compared with the
Dolphin incident at Tampico in
1914, during the Huerta regime,
which resulted in the landing of
American forces at Vera Cruz.
The general sentiment here as re-
Elected by the newspapers shows
much concern over the present
status of international relations and
also the outcome of the official con-
ferences at Washington on the Mex
lean policy and the probable course
the Mexican congress will pursue
with regard to oil legislation.
Cheyenne Case.
Among the dispatches sent by
General Barragan to the Asso-
ciated Press was one from General
Gonzales regarding the Cheyenne
case, in which the chief of the
Tampico garrison says:
This was due to their (the
American sailors) imprudence, for,
without advising with Mexican
military headquarters where they
could have learned how far they
could have passed safely up the
river Tamesi, they ventured beyond
the last outpost into rebel territory
and were robbed of one watch.
little money and their shoes"
General 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.
Hiram Hughes Killed.
The killing of Hiram Hughes, an
American, near Tampico on July 9,
occurred, according to the Gonzales
dispatch, after Hughes. while intoxi-
Gated, had insulted passers-by and
had been arrested. Asked if he
carried arms, Hughes is alleged to
have replied in the negative, but a
gendarme found a pistol in his
pocket. Hughes is then declared
to have shot the gendarme in the
hand and was himself MORALLY
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.
More Data Promised.
The statement given out by Gen
eral Barragan conclues as follows:
Tomorrow there will be made
public various documents belonging
to the archives of the bandit, Fran
cisco Villa, which were 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 (Villa) for the purpose
Of helping to push to success the
campaign against the present Mexi-
can government, and the reply given
Wy Villa.
"These documents are very i'm
portant, for Senator Fall is of those
who have been working the hardest
against our government in the
American senate"