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Show BAKER REFUGES TO MAKE KNOWN SOURCEjFNEWS No Americans Suspected of Complicity in Conspiracy to Raid the Border for Political Purposes. WASHINGTON, Ot. 27. Secretary Baker left for Wilmington, 0., tonight to rontiiuif? his eampaiim speaking without with-out revealing either the sources or t ho I exact nature of the information whieh ! impelled the war department yesterday to issue a statement saying it had I knowledge that an attack on the border or on American troops in Mexico was being planned by enemies of the admin- j istration's policy toward Mexico. It was learned, however, that the f-uspieion was aroused here some days i flCo and that reports of an alleged raid ronspiraey appearing in certain American Ameri-can newspapers were transmitted to the border for investigation. Agents of the department of justice and of the treasury treas-ury are supposed to have made the iu-'i quiry, although there are intimations that General Funston also was advised as a matter of information. Reports reaching Washington yesterday led the secretary of war to confer with Secretary Secre-tary Lansing at the state department and if-suo the statement. No Americans Concerned. Suggestions that the statement was fo worded as virtually to charge American Ameri-can political opponents of tho administration adminis-tration of conspiring with the bandits caused both Secretary Baker and Secretary Secre-tary Lansiug today to reiterate the latter lat-ter 's statement of last night that there was no intention to do such a thing. ; Both said it was impossible to eoueeivo that, any American could be involved' in such an enterprise, and that Mexicans Mexi-cans now in the United States were responsible re-sponsible for the plot, wishing to embroil em-broil the United States and Mexico to the end that the He facto government might be overthrown. In declining to make public the nature na-ture of the information received, it, was said at both the state and war departments de-partments that to do so would close a aluable channel through which watch could be kept on Mexican affairs. The arrest of some individual accused of complicity in the plot, it was statpd authoritatively, probably would bo the the public's next information on the subject. Pershing in No Danger. High army officials have no doubt of the complete security of American forces in Mexico against any attack. Oreneral Pershing has nearly 12, QUO men with him, it is understood, and his forces are said to be so disposed that f any assailant who might come against his lines would be easily handled. There is every indication that attai'k- ers would be pursued whether the raid was directed against the troops iu Mex- i ico or a border town. j The state department received word ! today that the situation at Chihuahua City had been relieved by the arrival of Carranza troops from the south to augment General T re vino 's garrisou. Confirmation also came of General Tre- vino's denial that he wa. short of ammunition. am-munition. J-Je ports from Mexico City say quiet has prevailed there and the departure of General t'arranzu fur Queretaro has Dot been oliiciallv reported, although press (lis (latches have stated that ho left several days no. Lansing's Statement. Mr. Lansing authorized the following statement : I was o,uite correctly reported last nifjht in the statement that Secretary Baker 's announcement was inspired by absolutely no political polit-ical considerations as to this country. coun-try. Nor does it mean to infer that Americans of any sort are involved in-volved in the plot. There are many Mexican refugees in : his country who are inimical to the president's M exica n policy and who would doubtless rousider the present time as ripe for the furtherance of their projects. The silver which is known to have gone from the country to Mexican bandits was not necessarily necessar-ily from Americans. Indeed I cannot can-not con reive 1 hat there is any American cit i.en who is so heartless, heart-less, so entirely cruel, so wanton as to take a political step that would involve American lives. The warning was iiven simply to , protect American lives and proper- j ty, and I have every hope it will , be effective. |