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Show ! laid CHEF GHARGEDJH SUIT : Carranza Declared to Have : Perpetrated "Colossal Bank Robbery." KW VO RK, M:iy 1 1. Yenuatiaiio ' f'urr;i n .u , frcsi'ie!it of Mi.': iro, a uh o!tiir(ffl It 1 1 a colossal bank rob- bf;ry " in a suit for injunction, filed iu tlio ftUjd'cnin courl, ln-rc today by WL1-( WL1-( liam i. Mitf-linll. l'oniitir manager of tlio Ji:!iico de Loiulrcbi y Mexico or Mx-; Mx-; u-o City, h.-i.-kiiitf to "n.'-t rain Alfn-du ' Catucfli, couii.M'l ln-n; for Carran.a 's I com miss ion monct.;i.ria, from proserul"- iJi tr ii tl-U).'JiJU miiL against tlm H;juk of Mont real. t 'J' lie money claimed by the commission commis-sion from the .Montre.-il in si it Lit ion t Mr. j Mitclirll alleges, belongs to the I'.iitP'o I df) Loiiikcs y Mexico, which lie claims I '.'trrnna looted of 1 mm),i)')u in 1'Jltil by means of a aeries of illegal oveni- Jnental flecrens. In lltlii, Mr. Miti-liell alleges, C:ir-; C:ir-; rn n ,a i sr-'ued ;i decree ab ron Li u ; all I latvs ffiin ('Oin'cssions (u banks ot issue, of which the Hanco dc Londre3 ! v Mexico was otic. The decree, it is i allegr-d, pa vp 1 he banks sixty days t in which to incrcaric their metallic rc- : , f.crvcn to an antuunt equal to their bills , . j of circulation. A subsequent decree,' ' however, it is alleged, created the coin- j ' mission mo net ;i ria with authority to j j regulate the currency of the country in ; ; Mich a, manner as to make it impossible j I for the Banco de Londres y Mexico to i j maintain its metallic reserves at the j ,! required point. i W hen M r. Mitchell and other officials ! i of tho bank protested, the complaint ; continues, they were imprisoned by pcr-l pcr-l F.on.'i order. of Carranza and were eom-i eom-i polled by threats of death to $-fin pa-j pa-j pers turning over the assets of the ; bank to the Mexican treasury depart- merit. ' When released, Mr. Mitchell alleges. : he was permitted to witness the taking ' over of $19,000,000 in trold and silver ! by the government. The government i i!i not take any of the banks' socur- i itie. amount iiiir to about 6-1,000,000. I The gold and silver seized, it is al- I letred, was used by Carranza for his personal purposes and "for maintaining maintain-ing hin political prestige, his armies and ; general admin Ut rat. ion expenses. ' ' i Tien ring of t he suit was set for : May 21. |