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Show f DETENTION OF :i THE PRIESTS IS MED Women March to Brazilian Legation in Mexico City ! to Ask Minister's Intervention. J WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. Harry T. I lihoadcf, gnneru manager in Mcxir-o City for a Baltimore manufacturing concern, taken prisoner bv Zapata V troops, today's official dii-patclies to the I state department states, bas been released re-leased and returned to Mexico City. No Americans or other foreigners are under arrest at Piedras Ncgras, as bos been - reported. On representations to General Gen-eral Carranza that vessels have been damaged in Tampieo harbor, and that lighthouses on the Campeche banks are dark, the general has agreed to start the lights again. The arrest and holding for ransom of ISO Roman Catholic priests by Carranza forces in Mexico City was attended by organized protests of the people. A procession pro-cession of women marched to the Brazilian legation to ask the minister's intervention. From Monterey it is reported there has been no fighting there for two i weeks. Villa and Carranza forces have been reported battling for the city. Villa Takes Rosario. Villa forces have occupied Rosario, on the Pacific side, and Carranza troops are reported to have retreated toward -Mazatlan. Intervention by the United Htates, Argentina, Brazil and Chile' to police Mexico and establish order was urgpr in the senate todav by Senator Fall ot New Mexico. The senator concluded ; with an attack upon General V illa. He asserted that Villa, on entering Mexico City, seized and forciblv held for four days a French woman whose husband had. joined his colors in Franco after : placing his property in charge of the French embassador. "This was not the act of a subordinate but of t ilia and I am not repeating rumor." ru-mor." declared Senator Fall. "This is the man upon whom the administration I mlsrhl say sincerely, seems to haVe looked to bring order out of chaos in Mexico." |