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Show YOUNG TERRAZAS IS IN NO DANGER FOR THE PRESENT EL PASO. Tex, March 8. Non-payment of tho ransom demanded as tho price on tho life of Luis Tnrrnza. Jr, will not roBtilt In the execution of the prisoner .according to a telegram receW.d here todny from General Villa at Chl- ihuahua. Information as to th tolngram cam from robel agents tonight, hql these nddd that General Villa moet certainly would expose Terra wih to tho enemy's flro at Torreon unless the prisoner's father. General Gen-eral J.uls Terrazae, refrains from political activity. Tho younger Luis. It is asserted. alway3 has been held principally as a hostage to control, if possible, his father's efforts iu behalf of General Huerta. liven after repeated warnings. It is declared that the. elder Tcrrasus has aided the Mexico government with men and money, until a week ago General Villa declared that his patience was at an. end. The hitter's decision to waive the matter mat-ter of ransom came through representations representa-tions made by General Carranza, supremo chief of the revolution, and by his agents. A telegram to Villa from Federlco Gon-rales Gon-rales Garcia today pointed out that to executo Terrazas for non-payment of ransom, would be a barbarity which, coming com-ing on top of the Indignation aroused by the killing of William S. Benton, would seriously injure the constitutionalist cause in the United States and Europe. The telegram suggested that the 500.000 -pesos or $250,000, was a small sum compared with the expenses of running the revolution, revolu-tion, and that It was a mere nothing compared com-pared with the storm of criticism It was certain to arouse. General Villa, In response. Indicated that the ransom has been largely a pretext pre-text to cover his real purpose of preventing. prevent-ing. If possible, any aid reaching the federals fed-erals from the head of the Terrazas family. Terrazas Not Poor. With tho stand of General Villa his agents have no quarrel. They maintain that General Terrazas Is far from being the poor man he now claims to be. and that ho Is a serious tiucimcc to Ihc rebel rear through his alleged ability and readiness readi-ness to equip filibustering expeditions, sucli as those of Jose Tcrrnzas and thu Qticvedo brothers. "General Villa is a man of his word," said a robel official tonight, "and while tho younger Tcrrnzas la in no Immediate danger, it is certain that Villa will expose ex-pose him to tho firing line If his father lends further aid and comfort to the enemy." Goneral Carronza'a telegrams to General Gen-eral Villa were not peremptory, but wcro argumentative, and pointed out that the sender was in the best position to Judge the International aspect of the case. Reference Ref-erence also was made to tho Intervention of Secretary of State Bryan on tho grounds of humanity, and tho damage to the prcstlgo of tho constltutlonallat movement move-ment which such an action, would mean Interest wns centered today In tho case of General W. B. Snyman. the former Boor general, who has been ordered from his 3000-acre ranch, La Rclna, forty-five miles south of Chihuahua, and the estate Itself confiscated. Snyman Is well known here, He was one of the leaders in forming a Boer colony In Mexico after the British triumph in. South Africa Ho was born a Boert but became naturalized as a Briton, and before the war was elected to tbe Cape assembly. Ho turned rebel against his adopted country, however, but waa restored re-stored to citizenship several years ago by King JCdward'a proclamation of amnesty. am-nesty. Specifically. Snyman is accused of allowing al-lowing the federals to uso his ranch an a recruiting headquarters, and there Is said to bo a further allegation that ho has not paid for his ranch. Krlcnda of Snyman, Sny-man, and his .-.on, G. C. Snyman, now here, deny the charges. Tho veteran Boer fighter was outHpokon against the rebellion of Madcro against Porflrlo Diaz, but ho Is paid to have maintained a neutral attitude since then. George C Carothers, special agent of the state department, went to Douglas, Ariz., today to confer with General Car-ranza. Car-ranza. lie expects to return here lato tonight and to leave for Chihuahua, the headquarters of General Villa, tomorrow. He will remain with Villa throughout the Torreon campaign. |
