Arizona republican., 1919-09-07
MEXICO WOULD RELIEVE SELF
 IF GUARANTEE
 TO WAIT FARERS
American Travellers in Tam pico Region Will Be Com pelled to Sign Release = Failure Means Refusal to Wise Passports
[RenubIican A. P. Leased Wlrel

WASHINGTON, Sept 6-Appar- ently convinced that the United States is in earnest in demanding proper treatment of Americans in Mexico the Carranza government had adopted a novel expedient in an attempt to relieve itself of responsibility.
 Americans going to the Tampico re- zion. hereafter, will be compelled to sign a formal release of the Mexican governments responsibility for what may happen to them. If they refuse, Mexican officials will refuse to wise their passports.
 The condition raises a peculiar sftu- ation, for under national law a govern ment may refuse travel permission to foreigners into region where it may not be prepared to guarantee their safety Americans going to the Tam pieo oil region are being asked to make oath to such an affidavit asfollows:
 The undersigned under oath de- poses and says that he had been warned that the Tampieo oil region is a dangerous district on account. of the activities of bandits operating in said region: that deponent, by req son of his business as employe is on his way to that region, and travels at his own risk That in case some ac- cident might happen to him, hereby he formally reannounces the right that he or his heirs might have, to present claim to the Mexican government either directly or through any other channel
 This affidavit Is not only required of workingmen who are American citizens but also of American citizens in the United States holding passports from the state department authorizing them to visit the Tampico region.
 Details of three robberies in week in the Tampico region have been re- eeived at the offices of the oil com panies. The robbers secured s59, ,060 Mexican goH, American companies be- ing the victims and the robberies all took place in tho territory where no one but the Carranza troops are per mitted to carry arms.
 H. M KImball, cashier of the Penn Mex camp wa forced by bandits to open the safe from which S25.000 was taken, the robbers escaping in com pany launch. Twenty eight men in all, took part in the robbery. all armed with rifles and revolvers. Luis Cult errez, paymaster of the Agwi com pany, while taking a. payroll of s40,606 to the Tepetale camp. was held up by three armed masked men and robbed. Neither Gutierrez nor his companion Kenneth de Lacy knew they were to make the trip until n minutes before they started The company officials | however, had notified the. Mexican authorities at Tampico of the amount of the payroll and the time of de- parture and the route to be taken
 The robbers demanded the exact amount, according to the report which was not known to the two men carry 1 ing it and it was counted before the robbers would let their victims go.
 A Tampico bank made up s3000t payroll of the Transcontinental Oil company in an effort to thwart the robbers and placed it in a box to be sent to the camp at Mata Redonda bs launch. The Mexican authorities are said to have delayed the departure oi the launch unexpectedly for one night and when it reached the company, 8 box of old iron had been substituted for the original.