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Show CARRANZA BALKS. The unexpected did not happen when Albert J. Pani informed the American; members of the joint commission that j General Carran.ra had declined to ratify the protocol recently signed at Atlantic j City, a copy of which the Mexican 1 commissioner carried to Queretaro to , secure the first chief's approval. Wei dare say not one man in a thousand in ! the United States expected Carranza to' approve the work of the commission 1 even had the delegates personally se-j lecfd by him been able to frame the' protorol to suit themselves. His mis-; sion in life seems to be to delay the return of peace in Mexico and exas-perate exas-perate the American people beyond endurance. His refusal to 6ign the j protocol, however, does not change con-1 ditions on the border or the attitude of j this government as to the pursuit of raiders and the withdrawal of the punitive expedition under General j Pershing. Raiders will be followed to; the death and Pershing will remain where he is until the northern states of Mexico are pacified and all cause of danger is removed. At least, this is the intention of the administration as outlined out-lined in the supplementary statement that went along with the protocol. What Carranza needs is a prod with a bayonet. |