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Show null bUlflLd rpP MfX'GO Carranza Premises to Investigate Assassination Assassina-tion of American Citizen Citi-zen by Federal Soldier. Wilson Considers Move to Protect U. S. Oil Property Interests in Republic to South. M'ASIU.V(';T(.V, I 11. Tim Mexican K " v -r-1 1 1 r l u 1 1 1 ' w reply lit the ease of James U allarc, A niPi-lcRu t-itlzi-ii, n.'-saHyiiiated '. a Ml -nn I'cdcral soldier near Tant-Pif" Tant-Pif" a fortnight UK", whs received today h;.' I lie Male d :pai-tnicnt. The Mexican government's nut o Haul tl.ft rasfi had been mad; one of official I'-.r-d mid that tho i in mcd lat o arrest of llifi soldier and Investigation of tho killing kill-ing had been ordered, li also said that Wallace, while in toxica ted and mounted, lall.-d to slop when ordered by the soldier, sol-dier, who fired In tlio belief that Wallace Wal-lace wan an enemy. 'WaJlaeu wan killed near J'otrero del Aano, being nhot through tho buck r.f the ln-.ad. lie wiin an employco of the .Avidia Oil. company tu'ar Tampico. Tlio state do-p;t,ft do-p;t,ft nient'H i n forma ( ion wan that the iniilo ho was riding fdiied at a machine gun and overturned it. (resident Wilson had before him today another memorandum on the Mexican .situation. It related to tho Interference of.' t ho Carranz.a government in tlio op-eijttlon op-eijttlon of jmerieau-ownod oil properties in -Mexico and was prepared by Chair-niiui Chair-niiui l'ayno of the shipping board, upon in fori nation furnished by representatives of Mexican nil producers. Chairman , I'ajno also sent a letter to .Secretary Lansing urging that tho statu depart - moil t. take- net ion ( ou a rd protect iug tlio Ameriran-owned oil properties In Mexico. THREE PROTEST NOTES SENT. U has developed that tho state department de-partment during tho last six months dispatched dis-patched llireo notes to tlio Mexican government gov-ernment protest ing against tho oil decrees, de-crees, but no replies havo been received from President Carranza. It was learned today that Mexican soldiers had halted drilling operations of A in er lean companies compa-nies on tho ground that permits to drill ba not been obtained. Under tile Mexican' Mexi-can' government decrees, foreign oil companies com-panies must agree In advance that the new wells shall become tho property of tho; Mexican government. Homo parts of testimony on tho Mexican Mexi-can situation given beforo tho Fall committee- of tho senate by W. F. Buckley, an, . American lawyer, long resident in Mexico, nuiko rattier sensational references refer-ences to John T.ind, once President Wilson's Wil-son's special agent In Moxico. Viuckley's testimony was given In prl-vii prl-vii t e, but a descript ion of it has been given out by tho committee. I And was described by Buckley as a "Carranza propagandist." and ho charged that while land was nt A'era Cruz he had an unsuccessful negotiation with a colonel in the lluerta army to overthrow Hitiu'ta and admit Zapata troops to Mexico Mexi-co City. M. L. Hall, another American described by Buckley fis a "personal representative rep-resentative of the president," also participated par-ticipated in the negotiations, tho witness fa id. Buckley testified that in privato con-versa! con-versa! ion and attributed all tlio evils of Mexico to the Catholic church. NEWSPAPERS ARE ASSAILED. Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treasury treas-ury in CarraiiT.a's cabinet and said to be the moving spirit in the a nti-American propaganda in Mexican official circles, puts tlio blame on tho American press for .the strained relat ions he t ween bis country and the United States, according to the Universal of December 4, copies of which reached Washington. Cabrera is quoted by the newspaper as saying in the interview: "The International impasse has neither ,.,!" :! or---- of ! I i::t-d S'at.-S v. . - . - u, -r. T; - A :,-! '-:an , - a.v... . .i d ' i : . if . , i - l-v .- ; - .,.,,: : -n : r r J i.;,- y. ur-hty of ;t- . - f '-i:i ; ,-,i;c-. A t, - ,l 1 r v vr n u t f- 'i'!'r. i'c- '-.-I .r.-.-. is no ;.;- :.r ;,!,; i .s j-.r a .'. h of amb von.--,;:m ..l ;i r rl'fr .-rvi','-:i or ri'--r. p'.Wi-,''.:t.H. p'.Wi-,''.:t.H. A : , ' h ' n v-,u n,;.v a .' .o.- to tU: a- M--', ii'g ;i .j u ! ti.-.- Arr;.-r.can j i ; w;il tall f-i r .ii.-l of :xp 'rs.s.rig n.y upiuhi ,i if." ryim-ra d.-r.i'd tak:i:g any part in t..e .. nkih- ra arid s..'d Iih - m.j: r : . t. It.- -: L- ia L his h : 'jt ! tt r was governor off Pu-hia. T.iejT. is not t'.fi'.'.' and has -;evcf l.en ;i r. v difference of opinion l.ciw.-.'ii pr.xi-j d.-nt V.'i.'.n and f n sta Vh d ;, rt. :n i i I on !;,,- i. said tod.iv. Mr. Lan-'ln wii.i d'.s'-ii'-si:! iiuuli.hcd rcvirts thai t.,f: "anif1:'!.- on the Fa. I r-!-ol n t (f:i, re-.-j.-Mng a lire. i ! with Ui Carra-iZa L'ov- nin.'-'ii was a rt-vrs.l of I ii-; I -jilcy ad.,i te-1 by tin- department. |
