Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-29 | Page 4 | May Force Action

MAY FORCE ACTION. General Pablo Gonzales, with four regiments of Mexican regulars, is inarching along the border south of the Big Bend, country in Texas. The Mexican Mexi-can soldiers are without food and arc said to be in a starving condition. On this side of the boundary line are many cattle ranches, and General Gonzales has notified the American authorities that unless the embargo on the exportation expor-tation of food is raised for , the benefit of his men he fears they will raid the ranches in the vicinity. As a matter of fact, they have already been stealing steal-ing and slaughtering cattle on our side of the line. It will be necessary, of course, to send a large force of cavalrymen cavalry-men to the point of danger in order to protect the lives and property of the Texas ranchmen, and there is no belling what may happen. Jt will be impossible for four whole regiments of Mexicans to get away if the American troopers are sent after them, following a raid, and they might not attempt to escape, unless defeated in battle. Carranza is to blame for this state of affairs, and if. these four regiments of Mexican soldiers, driven desperate by hunger, bring on a clash between the two countries it will be through no fault of this country. These raids have been going on for a long time, but they have been conducted by small parties of men hitherto. Now that four or five thousand Mexican regulars have appeared ou the border, with demands for food, we may be subjected sub-jected to an armed invasion, instead of a raid, in which case it will become necessary to settle the Mexican question ques-tion by force of arms.