Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 12 | Mexico Slow in Paying Claims

MEXICO SLDW II PAYINGGLAIMS Only One American Com pensated Since Regime Re-gime of Diaz. WASHINGTON, July 8. Compilation by the state department at the recme.st of the senate of claims of Americans who ; have suffered loss of property and life In Mexico has revealed that only one claim has been paid since the Diaz administration. ad-ministration. This claim was In the case of John McManus, for whose death the "llla-Zapat a convention government paid to the widow ?7,000 at the request of Serretary of State Bryan. The attention of the state department has been attracted to an advertisement appearing in American newspapers urging i Americans with claims to present them to tho commission established twenty-one months ago in Mexico City. This advertisement adver-tisement asks Americans to communicate with a Mexican representative at a New York address and adds that "President t.'arranza realizes that many Americans ; have suffered heavy losses and i;i'ss Injustice, In-justice, at the hands of irresponsible political po-litical factions in Mexico during the recent re-cent years." Officials of the state department asserted as-serted today tli is claims commission had examined but few of the thousands of claims presented to it and had decided none as yet. It was said that Americans should present their claims only through tho state department. , Airplanes recently sent north from Mexico Mex-ico City have been used effectively ajralnst Villa followers between Santa Rosalia and Pilar de Conehos, according lo official advices received today. News that the airplanes had been used to drop bombs on the Villa men was contained in a dispatch from General Manuel Dleguez, who was at Santa Rosa! 'a, about sixty miles northeast of I'arral. It gave no details.