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Show UN FOR JOINT BORDER POLICE IS MOONED Iexitan Conferees Told Their Government Must Be Responsible for All Depredations. NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 1.1. A icqt'stion that tho Mexican povern-;eut povern-;eut ereato a constabulary for border itv similar to the rura'ies of the Diaz pi me was made today during a brief .ion of the. American-Mexican joint .inimission concluding the second week ,f its deliberations. Apparently the -ian for a joint police force previously :;snitised was abandoned as impraeti-ible impraeti-ible after the commissioners had con-erred con-erred with Major General Tasker H. assistant chief of staff of the "nited States army. The three Mexican commissioners left ;or Xew York tonight to joiu in the , elehratiou there tomorrow of the Mex-an Mex-an national holiday, arranged by con-,-ilar officials. Dr. John R. Mott of he American commission is absent on -rsonal .business, but his associates, retary Dane and Judge Gray, are voting their time to a study oi' telegraphic tele-graphic reports from the border and iie interior of Mexico, transmitted by :he state and war departments. Bliss Makes Statement. General Bliss, it was learned, made be joint commission a dispasiaonate atement of the situation he believed vould follow General Pershing's with-::aal with-::aal from Mexico before a properly instituted constabulary is created to relieve his troops. It is understood he ointed out problems in the way of ia effort to create a border police un-:r un-:r dual authority. . There is reason to believe the Araeri-3D Araeri-3D commissioners have sought to im--ress their Mexican conferees with, the riew that Mexico must recognize re-ronsibility re-ronsibility for the depredations her r.ationals may commit on the border f good relations are to be unimpaired. The whole question of creating a non-military non-military police force to hunt down ban-lits ban-lits in their hill retreats is based on this feeling, and it is believed the suggestion sug-gestion that the Carranza government jDdertake this task for itself as an international in-ternational obligation came from the Mexican commissioners. Theory Worked Out. The theory is that a force of carefully care-fully selected mounted police could be iiaposed in small posts in the hill country. coun-try. Tho chase would become an individual indi-vidual pursuit rather than a military novernent; which becomes ineffective if ;he bandits scatter and mingle with peaceful residents. The police would heck up the comings and goings of (very man in a suspected community. Moving swiftly and unhampered by women camp followers, it is believed, a Mexican military force could do much toard putting a permanent check, on iinza adage. , Tbe question of Mexico's responsi- . tuity to protect the American border will be discussed next week. Tbe American commissioners are disposed cot to stand upon any technical laws, t but to deal with the situation as one of 'act, taking into consideration Mexico's Mexi-co's social and economic conditions. Other questions it has been planned o discuss next week are plans for the oosideration of claims of American itizens against Mexico; allegations of, Wrioan property owners in Mexico 'flat their property is being confiscated ; y excessive taxation or Jby decrees roviding for forfeiture; the right iaimcd by the government to take over1 utds owned by foreigners on the , .round that the property has not been ! ?etl during the period when it was im- ossible to get to them to operate them E'l the consideration of decrees un-fr un-fr which American citizens have been1 ;riven out of Mexico or not permitted ! '9 practice their professions or carry j c their business, contrary to treaty i 'filiations. " |