Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-17
AMERICANS FEAR
VILLA REPR|SALS
Attacks on U. s. Citizens Ex-
pected-carranza Silent Con-
oerning Army's Exploit
MEXICAN REBELS BITTER

washington, June 17.-State De.
partment officials said TODAY no protest
against the sending of American troops
into Mexico to disperse the villistas at
tacking Juarez had been made on be.
half OF the Mexican Government Gen.
eral Candido Aguilar, confidential am.
bassador of President Carranza and
Doctor Rojo. the Mexican charge. wer,
invited to the department yesterday and
assured that tbe American forces would
remain in Mexico only long enough to
attain their object. This explanation.
officials said, apparently was salts
factory to the Mexican representatives.
Doctor Rojo has received no instruc.
tions to make a protest, he said today.
kilograms reaching the State Depart
ment today indicated feeling of an
prehension that the Villistas would make
rcprisals on Americans in that part of
Mexico controlled by villa. Officials of
mining company operating south of
Chihuahua telegraphed the department
that the railroad line south of Chi.
huahua had been cut and that their EN-
nloyes were endeavoring to get out of
Mexico by way Of Parral and Laredo.
The National Association for the pro
lection of American rights in Mexico
sent telegram to Henry F. Fletcher,
American ambassador to Mexico, who
is now in Washington, urging protec
tion' of American lives and property in
the districts Villa controls.
Mexico City, June 17.-(By A. P.)
The Mexican Government has moth
ing to give out for publication regard
ing the crossing of American troops
from El Paso to Juarez, according to
statement made last night at the
offices by General Juan Barragan,
President Carranza's chief of staff.
The tone of official dispatches seemed
to indicate that Mexican officials on the
border accepted the American claim that
the attack on the Villa forces by Amer
ican forces was for the purpose of pro
tecting American lives across the from
tier.
With General Felipe Angeles in the
Field, Mex, June 17.-(By A. PO-
Somewhere to the southwest of Zara-
gosa, sixteen miles from Juarez is Cen
eral Felipe Angeles, moving with his
small personal bodyguard to the south
and west, after expressing bitter dis
appointment as the result of the cross
ing of American soldiers into Mexican
territory Sunday night,
When General Angeles received the
news by courier that the Americans
were over shadow crossed his face
and his disappointment was great. He
had hoped, he said, that the United
States would still adhere to its attitude
of noninterference and he again re-
ferred to the Nogales, Sonora troop
movements through American territory.
General Angeles expressed regret
shots had fallen in Ell Paso.
The attitude of General Villa toward
the United States before the attack
was one of sincere friendship, his aides
states. 1t was still one of friendship
before the second attack Sunday,
they said. But that it will un-
dergo a change now since the Americans
went after him a second time was freely
expressed by his staff.
El Paso, Texas, June AFTER three
days of intense excitement and fighting
in and near Juarez, the border resumed
its routine today with no indication of
an immediate resumption of hostilities.
All American troops were back on the
American side last night, Villa and his
column are somewhere south of Sama-
layuca, Chihuahua, and General Fran
cisco Gonzales is again in full control
of ba Tvo