Show CARRANZA REFUSES BEQUESTS Americans Want Permission to Dig New Nev r Wells ells and to Arm ArIn for Resisting Resisting Resist Resist- ing Bandit Pay Roll Raids W V July 9 D. Representatives I cs of American oil on companies companies com corn panics operating in Mexico were said to have ha asked the state department eDt today to request permission from the Mexican government go eminent for their go or em em- in Mexico to arm themselves for protection ng bandits It also was said that tho the department was asked to o r. r request qu t permission m Il for or oll-C oll oIl q h a o it hr money t to the oil fields to topa pa pay their men so ns as to minimize the possibilities of the tho payrolls falling Calling Into the hands of ot bandits Want ont V MT Well cU A third request understood to have been made was that the United States government O insist upon the revocation ro of ot the decree prohibiting the tho drilling of oC new oil wells Tho The representatives of the tho companies represented that Mexican Mex Mex- lean ican federal troops were enforcing this decree The three requests It was said were first presented to the Mexican government government govern govern- ment but were refused with the statement state state- mont ment that the Mexican troops troop would furnish ad adequate Quate protection both to the lives and the tho properties of oC the oil com corn i II Referred lo to o Note State department officials were understood understood understood un un- un- un tb have outlined th tho th American policy as stated In the note of or Ambassador Ambassador Ambas Ambas- Fletcher Pletcher to President Carranza Carr of April 2 1918 No change It was sid had been made in the Stan stand taken In that note not which read In part as follows In the absence of oC th tho establishment of or an any procedure looking to the tho pre pre- of ot spoliation of ot American citizens and in the absence of ot an any as asSurance assurance as- as such procedure established that It would not uphold in de defiance defiance do- do fiance of international law an and justice the arbitrary confiscations of oC Mexican authorities It becomes the function of or orth th tho gov government of ot the United States most earnestly and respectfully to call tho the attention of ot tho the Mexican government govern O meat ment to the necessity which ma may arise to Impell impel It to protect tho the property of ot Its citizens In Mexico diverted or In Injuriously in- in affected b by the decree The de decree rec referred to was that Is Issued issued Is- Is sued by Pr President Carranza providing for the payment of ot rental antI and royalty to th the tho nation by owners o of petroleum lands i |