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Show IfffflSE EElTEiwi PREVAILS ON BIlK Americans Are Being ojff1 dered Across the Line by Consuls. Iftfj By OTHBMAN STEVENS. IB''1 By International News Service. 'B J5L PASO. Texas. April C2, -Whik am writing this an official statcmeHC' from Carranza. the head of tho revotH&' tlonlsts, ls being sent to President VvHt Hon. It will be given out later this eviHS ing to the press associations, but I given its substance as "being a (IIbtBPi, lied, friendly document of a dlplonuW' nature, which held that tho action of tHl' United States at Vera Cruz and TiirartKw' was not justlllcd; that while lluerta hrKit1 usurper, he, while holding office, doKra represent to that extent the ilexleHEi peonlc under his control." iH"1 My Informant took particular troiilS''1? to insist that the assumption of oK acts being "'not justified" did not catBr1 any suggestion, or eeti Intimation thB the result would be a union between tKu Cnrranzistas and tho Iluertlstas BKci assuming this to bo conect, .i5nmiB(lstn that both Arllla and Carranza dwlr. jftff to become embroiled with the UnlbB States In a general war with Mexico tE peon army remains. The fact Is 'tWBei Mexicans are unifying If thoy do tBLa fat's In the tire and the scrap wiil JBviJ general all over Mexico. 1 look a trip .to Juarez this miwifcrt The only other American in the plaKf besides my party was Mr. Carollicre tKiP representative of tlu- state dfpnrtmefKi ( who was at the station with Senor VtKix quicra, the constitutionalist reprefntBri tlve at Washington, who has come htPv since tbo acute stage of affairs S raised. Tho shops were ompty. yo wKlb the saloons; nobody was on the stnHHir save constitutionalist soldiers, and tbtKSn was a somber air over the little dlBjkf which has survived from constantly rMj, currlng submerglngs in blood ThcPW was a bodeful sense excited een In ilHsMr midst of the very formal, polite rcrHti tlon given me and my companion hy iT officials who were going over the CaHreC ranr.a message us it was ticket! off tiHlW telegraph key. This evening El Pasoans are more thBrT0 over concerned, though there Is fnrfrflMl-belnc fnrfrflMl-belnc anything on which to base an wi pectatlon of aggressive action from otH& A tocsin signal has been arranife' Urn," I assemble the forces In case of nny mtUV act. The apprehension Is caused "by tWk possibility of some fool act. Under tflp'' great tension existing on both sides. IIBk foy of a drunken man, a ple-e '9Un bravado on tho part of some IdlotledHpt t exalted fellow of impulse, could reidKfj bring excitement to tho danger poIntRii., Meanwhile Americans are belW?tr brought out from the neighboring ftalBf' ! of Mexico. Today the order was giPPBT-to giPPBT-to bring the seventy-five or 100 AmeflAai! cans employed about the Parral mlnB; This was done on tho advice of a tKv gram from General Scott, whose tonE r. one of the Parral employees. BoraV: thing like 200 refugees came in todP11 and others from Torreon way nre '(BkI peeled tomorrow. These arc the itiVJiU and women whose interests would Ipjlri permit them to come when other FinPXau Ings were sent, but who now m.ist nuZ and leave, nl their Interests! dolnp MPr1 on Instructions from our consuls. I'P Tho matter of the embargo on afjprra and 'ammunition meanwhile is asMiralBt& Importance. Yesterday shipments iKm several thousand stand of anus. wiKi:, over the river. I am told that AmePJ-can AmePJ-can dealers in arms have had thPMIJ1 stocks depleted and that cpnstitutlonBlN ists have begun buying from forelPJibt dealers. They have several ndlllPKU rounds of cartridges stored in a arPCLjj. house in El Paso, which havo not PjpMTj across because they found that a fauPT1" lot had been passed off on them. HTT perls are now at work segregating iPJKHl good cartridges from the bad ones. PJ Government officials admit that it bPJ., purchase of arms is still allowed lt)PJK! probable that a good portion of the pVy porta lions will be used against our oPK. , men In case the constitutionalists ealPK M not be held qulcsoent by their IcadewpV On the other hand, there alo ldld -tions of a growing respect for tMpJPfltt Earn. One constitutionalist leader HlfiiF paper announcing the fail of Vera wPVjy; "Carramba!" lie said "our stroniPjfK seaport taken In fifteen mlnntesl'1 :9PAb he added a lot of Spanish, which s3Bt, to mean, "What will these grhisaesjPJW when thev really got started?" . .PA Stn Opinion here has crystallized in the J"-. Uef that the war which lias been wpP" not to be a war is soon to be a TraB"" Cruiser Sails South. Mm SAX FRANCISCO. Cat. April "vPPW T cruiser South Dakota and the "'Pi-colller "'Pi-colller Jupiter, which lay at anchor San Francisco all night, sailed for .SjPMK Diego today. Tiie Jupiter has aboard V! marines and the South Dakota h'tf-P1 marines who were bi ought from BruuJltr ton, Wash., and 500 who Joined the vejPXJl here. The marines nre to be left al'PLl advance base at San Diego. TdPXSi Orders were received at the SIareifPEJi navy yard todav for the cruiser "fJPMW land to drop down the bay to son dsco tomorrow and to be ready for "'VV can duty. The Maryland had all her PBi I stores and -provisions aboard, but 'Wm"lr;, at once loading S00.000 rounds oi mmm nltion for the vessels of the Pacific PPjM now in Mexican waters. viPJktl!?' Tiie cruiser Cleveland, now at 2JPfc Island. Is under orders to sail for 11P - Saturday. She lias no marines aboar3BR,'I Inquiring About Boats. VM LIVERPOOL. April 22.-Brpkers Ing In behalf of tho United State crnment made inquiries in s hlpplnj clcs today to ascertain what l?ml.B?e available here if required for tlio t "flPJP1 fportatlon of troops, stores and i'ljPV-the i'ljPV-the United States to Mexico. MWji qulrles, It was stated merely ncre ?f r cautionary, with a view to .tho ,PPJE extension of the operations In MCP fyj ' |