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Show mum IS DELAYING HIS ANSWER State Department Still Without Reply to Note of Warning Dispatched to Mexican Officials. Army Circles DiscuBsing Size of Force Which Would Be Required for U. S. Intervention. VrV8BV0T0N Nov. 21..-Slate de-rtmrat de-rtmrat officials still awaited lunigbt a reply to lite note watumg (be Mrs n an g"' rruita iii Ibat any further mo llaatatttoa f William U. Jrnkias, Auier I inan roaeotar ag at kt i'ucbta, who has bctn arretted twice is rvuaretioa with bit rrrrat abduclioa by bandite. woulu eiiously affect the rcUliuns be Ixiii III' I nitcd States and Mexico. While the tail of tke American gov irrBncoi'e rommuDiralion has not been audi; public, tbe summary publiahcd ly tbe state department indicated that it was oac of tbe sharpest ever sent to tke (.'arrsura eminent. It aaid the I'niied Mates was lioth " surpriard aad in.cnscd" to learn of tbo nc-inpriennmeat nc-inpriennmeat of Jcokint, and demand rd bis immediate release. So fr as was made known, no report re-port regarding Jenkins, reached the department de-partment today from t lie embassy at Mexico City, but officials believed that I if he had not been released he soon would be as a result of the state depart meat 's demand. DISCUSS POSSIBLE IRMT MOVEMENT. Iiseusiiij general Mexican sit uation today, stale department officers revealed that liefore the world war the army general staff ,t iiualcd that complete intervention in Mexico bv the mcrican government would require 45H,0iX) men operating over n period of three years. I'resent estimates were not made available, but it tl known Ilia? nrniv officials hold t lint the force necessary nt this lime would be much less lecause of the increased armv equipment, such as motorized trans- I ports, artillery txuj aii planes. During t ho .lav the department m.idV public a rnniplelc report from Jenkins on his capture and his subsequent treatment In a hospital at 1'ucbla after af-ter his friends had ncrectl to pay 3 1.10,-OOd 1.10,-OOd in gold for hit ransom, plodding their lives lint the installments would be forthcoming. It was under date of November 7 and amplified the account which Jenkins wrole to P.-prosentat ivo DwVia of Teniifec, and which Mr. la-vis la-vis mailo public yesterday. MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO PI NISH MEXICANS. Jen kin s gaid tbal "a very important matter" wus tbal al t hoORb tbe local government enuM hftrdly be rostraiuo.l from Bending troop, out immediately to puniab my enptora wlien they learned of my captoroj (hey have not made tlte BUxl.t68l effort to do no since 1 re-turnea re-turnea twelve daya aj?o, aTUtoujrh they have len incited to do so. but exonso t lioin.selves liv savin-; hat they ui!l (JO so." ''The rebaClfl aro only ji few miloa distil nl , " hr Tfrote; " t hey have been (bore for months nnd vearS; thev plajlt. Cultivate and gather their crops entirely unmolested, the whole countryside country-side is with them-, and yet the government govern-ment apparently mahes no effort to drive' them awny and (five protection to this city. There are in the immediate imme-diate vicinity of this city not less than n half dozen important bands of rebels, all oi them well known to the government, govern-ment, and no aotertainod efforl has ever hoen made to fij.rhl tlieni. This is the situation as il is todav of this eitv." .JENKINS ESTIMATES ABDUCTION EXPENSES. The consular agent itemized tho ex-pouso ex-pouso lie incurred in connection with lus abduction, placing t be total sum nt $357,341.91 Mexican gold. In mldi-tion mldi-tion to the $300,000 Mexican cold paid or to bo paid to the bandits, the loss included $60,623.65 Mexican cold stolen prom the safe in thoij3enj 'aoirice; $122 taken from his person; $320 hospital Poes for himself and wife; $435 for to oRrunia. 1 7 n for roesscuffers to the mountains where he was held, $121 for Automobiles and conchies, and $505 Cor expenses and lawyers' fees for Lie Mesl ro, a friend of t he Uffent, who helped to ariantf for hiw release and (Continued on ifygc 1!, Column i GARRANZA DELAYING ANSWERTO WILSON State Department Is Still Without Reply to Note of Warning. (Continued From Page One.) who has been arrested by the Pucbla state authorities in couueeliou with the abduction. Jenkins has announced his intention to appeal to the government for aid in defraying these expenses. Sltite department de-partment officials said today that because be-cause of the Mexican government's lax-itv lax-itv in trying to eleau out the rebel bauds it had failed to give proper protection pro-tection to the consular agent, who consequently con-sequently might have grounds for a claim against the Mexican government for the ransom money. |
