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Show VlLLAREFUSES TO FIGHT AMERICANS HAS NO QUARREL WITH UNITED STATES AND NOTHING TO DO WITH CARRANZA NOTE. Head of Rebel Military Forces Say9 All Europe Would Laugh If He Should Permit Huerta to Draw Him Into the Controversy. El Paso, Texas. General Francisco Villa, head of the rebel military forces had no desire lor trouble with the United States. General Villa arrived at Juarez on Thursday and Informed George C. Carothers, special agent of the state department, that he will decline to ho ilrauBPii Into war with the United States by anybody. "Why," he smiled, as he threw an arm about the broad shoulders of the government representative,"all Europe would laugh at us if we went to war with you. They would say that the 'little drunkard Huerta has drawn them into a tangle at last." Villa said that he was not consulted consult-ed In "the drafting or the Carranza note transmitted to Secretary Bryan on Wednesday and which was regard-as regard-as somewhat hostile in tone. The rebel leader told Carranza, who reported the interview to the state department, that one of the chief reasons that he came to Juarez was to show the American people that his attitude was friendly and that he did not fear to trust himself on the border without a military force behind be-hind him. |