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Show WI1IML Of Persistent Reports That Car-ranza Car-ranza Has Limited Stay of Americans in Mexico Officially Of-ficially Declared Untrue. Washington, April 8. Official denial of persistent reports that the de facto government of Mexico had asked for withdrawal of the American troops was expecjed here today to set at rest all such rumors Secretary Lansing declared that no ;suc.h;xequest had beonmader formally or otherwise. State and war department officials said there was no truth in border reports re-ports that General Carranza had given the United States a certain time in which to withdraw their forces and that 15,000 Carranza soldiers were massed just below the International boundary line. Reports of bandit l'alds In the country coun-try surrounding Mazatlan on the Mexican Mex-ican Vest coast, have so alarmed the some 200 Americans in and about tho town that they have requested through official sources the constant presence of a warship in port The protected cruiser Chattanooga is dividing di-viding her time between Mazatlan and Guaymas. oo |