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Show Complain of Abuses. LAREDO, Texas, May 27. A petition peti-tion to President Wilson signed by more than fifty American residents of Tnmpk-o, complaining of alleged abuses upon Americans by Mexican' military and civil authorities and expressing the belief of the Americans that they should be advised definitely as to the attitude of the United States regarding enforcement of -decrees, was forwarded to Washington today. The petition recites individual cases 1 of arrests and fines and confiscations! imposed for alleged violation of decrees of the Mexican military government. The object of the decrees ""is to force Americans to leave Mexico, according to the petitioners. |