| Show APPEAL TO PRESIDENT TAFT FOR PROTECTION IN MEXICO W W Dee Dec President ll-President 11 President Taft listened tonight to startling Y TV disclosures about present day conditions in Mexico Four FouL American men with Mexican interests two members of oE the Senate and a congressman con- con gressman sat in the calinet room arid and a heard the tire story vouched for by IJ all told old to th President by a man who has been in in the southern republic within the last few weeks It wa was a tale talc of outrages on fet l Mexican can women of murders and holdups of oC seizure and holding of Americans for ransom and of general I I lawlessness and disorder The story iani came ou nii out t at s t a hl r granted granted- granted J by F Fth th the Pies President nt t to the the tho them American Ameri Amri- m r-i r I Ian can an business men who have appeared before the state department an and who ho were ere referred to the tho White House They did dIll not nol ask asic Intervention the they saId ald after arter tho the hearing was over but tho they requested tho the President to see soo that Americana were protected protect d and that life liCe and property were made safe Tho President ent promised to take tako up the case rase with tho the departments con con- Senators William Al Alden en Smith of oC Michigan an and Fail 1 of ot New Mexico who conducted the tho Investigation for tor the Senate of the tire two Mexican revolutions Hamilton of Michigan Prince McKInne of ot Cleveland O. O S. S Continued on Pase Page Pago 2 Column I 4 APPEAL MADE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Continued From Page 1 1 Ponso Pense of ot Texas H. H S. S Stephenson of oC Los Angeles and E. E K Warren of ot Oaks Oal's Mich- Mich were present at the tho hear hear- ing Whito House officials had no statement state state- ment to mako make after the conference but it was under understood tood that President raft Taft had no indention of or asking Congress for tor authority to Intervene Senators Fall and Smith did not take tako up with tho President In detail the result of or their investigation but Senator Fall at several points cori tho tho assertions assertions asser asser- of ot others who were wore heard Rebels Move to Can Grande randos El BI Paso Texas Dec Dee 11 n Rebel Rebel bel forces recently mobilized below Juarez have evaded tho the two federal columns moving u against thorn them say today's official ad- ad vices Tho rho combined rebel force moro more thin 1000 mounted neon mon aro rapidly Into time the Casas Gr Grandes andes district recently evacuated e by General Blanco Blancos forces Blancos Blanco's men and th the f federal column from Chihuahua City are arc left on tho time Mexican Central line with a strip of destroyed railway separating them I Tho The strongest federal force torca In the district district dis dis- dis Is Casas Gran Granges Grandes es defended b by GOO COO federal regulars Lack of or an adequate cavalry force will prevent pre tho the federals pursuing the r rebels bels except b by a 3 roundabout roundabout roundabout round round- about railway route louto n h Phoenix Ariz Dec 11 Emilio It Emillo Campa Cam Cam- pa a R. leader o of oi the Mexican held In Jail on tho border bordor nearly three months montha on a charge o of having been boon at an un alien atlen fugitive from Justice was freed freer tolla today b by by- Jud Judo c Sloan of or the te fedora federal I court who gave a favorable decision in ins habeas s corpus proceedings brought in Campas Campa's behalf Judge 6 Sloan ruled that former proceedings proceedings pro pro- against Campa lied had not been Instituted b by the tho c proper authorities I and that papers served In the case caso were defective In man many particulars Campa said after his release rolease that he h was through h with revolutions and would remain in Phoenix |
