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Show CARRANZA'S ANSWER IS HANDED U. S. Official Copy of Mexico's Mex-ico's Reply to American Ameri-can Demand for Jenkins' Jen-kins' Release Received. Some New Angles to Controversy Developed Devel-oped by Note to Secretary Secre-tary of State Lansing. WASHINGTON, N.iv. Mexico l.as rrllol with an argumentative diplomatic refusal to the American government's rtfs-mar.d rtfs-mar.d for t!,e. Immediate release of William Wil-liam O, Jenkins, the consular agent Imprisoned Im-prisoned nt PuebUu Tho official note was delivered today, '.mi not made public. There U no reason rea-son to doubt hat It agrees with the copy given out lust night by the Mexican consul con-sul general at El Paso. No comment was forthcoming to Indicate Indi-cate how (he state department regards the answer to wi.al w;ts considered one of the sharpest warnings yet sent to Mexico, and neither was there any ladl-cutlv.n ladl-cutlv.n w v. hai too government's ii-.n step xroM t.. " " Tha Mexican reply, wljch, according to Its text, was prepared at the direction of President C'-arranza. argues, in the main, that the Mexican government cannot order the release of a prison- while his case is under adjudication in the civil courts of one of Its states, and contends that tiie American government's demand f-r th consular agent's release h.iri r-n foundation or precedent in inter-, national law. NEW ANGLES TO DISPUTE DEVELOPED. Some new angles of the Mexican viewpoint view-point on the Jenkins case, hitherto unpublished un-published In the l'nited .States, are revealed. re-vealed. The tendency or the Mexican argument is to separate the Jenkins case into two phases: First, the situation In which the consular agent was kidnaped by bandits and held for ransom, anil last, his subsequent arrest and Imprisonment bv the civil authorities of Buebja on a charge of bavins "connived" with the bandits. The note at hand deals with the latter phase exclusively. It points out that Jenkins was first held under what is known to the MeJjV-can MeJjV-can penal code as "preventive Imprisonment." Impris-onment." This provision covers a situation situa-tion in which a person is suspected of complicity in a criminal act. He subsequently subse-quently was held ..under a provision covering cov-ering "formal" imprisonment, whiOh. under the Mexican penal code, applies when a inasri.strale believes there Is sufficient suffi-cient evidence to establish that a crime has been committed. The allegation against Jenkins is that he signed conflicting conflict-ing statements regarding his kidnaping, and, therefore, was "guilty of falsifying judicial declarations." JENKINS PERMITTED FREEDOM ON BOND. The note says Jenkins has opportunity to be released on bail in the sum of 1000 pesos, the equivalent to $500 in American money, if reckoned in coin rather than American bank notes, and that Jenkins has refused to avail himself of it, although al-though he has been requested to do so. Recalitna that Mexican consuls In the i l'nited States have been imprisoned and that Mexico has never asked the United States to waive local law in their cases, ' the note remarks that "the Mexican government gov-ernment cannot concede to American citizens citi-zens more rights than Mexicans enjoy In the United States." The Mexican note opens with the observation ob-servation that the foundation for the American government's demand probably "can only be the power of the country that makes it." and, as the conclusion of a lengthy lejral argument, expresses its hope that the state department will withhold Its judgment on the Jenkins case until the civil courts in Puebla have passed -on it. In the note to Mexico the state department depart-ment not only demanded the immediate release of Jenkins, but warned Carranza ! that further molestations of the consular agent would bring relations between the I two countries to a precarious point. ; Widow Still in Ignorance. NEW YORK, Xov. 27. Mrs. Felipe Angeles, An-geles, widow of the Mexican revolutionary j leader, was still i:i Ignorance today of hts j execution. Mrs. Carmen Delarose. her j sister, declared that she had been so 111 t that even the news of ::l3 arrest by the Carranza forces had been withheld. Alberto, the general's 20-year-old son. today made public ;t telegram from his father, dated Tuesday afternoon. It read: "Let the family know that I am serene and contented. I hope that you will be a good man. a patriot and a hard worker. I want yon to love your mother, sister and brothers very much. Kisses and em-bra em-bra ces. (Signed ) VFEIjIPE ANGELES." 'Virtual Death Command. (Chicago Tribune Special.) ! EL PASO. Tex.. Nov. 27. President i Carranza telegraphed to the military court j that was to try General Felipe Angeles. I and told them to "do their duty regard -I !et" of pleas for sympathy or demonatra- 1 (Continued on Page 17, Column 4.) CliZA'S ANSWER IS HANDED U. S. (Continued From Pai?e One.) tlons In favor of the accused.' according to advices received from Chihuahua today by Henator Fall, chairman of the subcommittee sub-committee of the coin mil tee on foreign relations of the senate investigating Mexican Mex-ican affairs. "8uch a meaaage. from Mexico Cltv under un-der the present system of things could! only be construed by a military court-martial court-martial presided over by Carmnxa mill- ; tary chiefs as an order to execute and let nothing Interfere with the execution," I said .Senator Fall. TEXT OF AMERICAN NOTE TO CARRANZA IS GIVEN PUBLICITY KL PASO. Texas. Nov. 27. Surprise and cxaspsrat ion was expressed by the government of the United States in ltd note to tho Mexican government demanding demand-ing the release from prison of William O. Jenkins. A raejican tonsillar agent at Puebla. Mexico, it became known tonight, following the publication of the text of t be A merican note by Andres ii. Garcia, consul general at El Paso. Following Is a re translation of the Span ish version of the note sent to Mexico by the state department of the United Slates: "American Embassy, Mexico City, November No-vember 20. 1919. "To H Mario Medina, Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs. "Sir Referring to previous communications communica-tions in the case of (he consular agent of the United States at Puehla. Mexico, William O. Jenkins, 1 have the honor of Informing you that I have received telegraphic tele-graphic Instructions to notify the secretary secre-tary of foreign affairs of Mexico that. In connection with the losses and injuries already suffered by Mr. Jenkins as the result ' of his being kidnaped occasioned by the Inability of the Mexican government govern-ment to give due protection and his first arrest by Mexican authorities, the government of the United States of America Amer-ica is surprised and exasperated to learn that Mr. Jenkins again has been arrested. "Ills new arrest seems to my government, govern-ment, according to tho evidence before It, entirely unjustified and an arbitrary exercise ex-ercise of public authority. "The government orders me to add that the persistent persecution and subsequent sub-sequent harassing of Mr. Jenkins cannot but have a very serious effect upon the relations bet ween the two countries for Which the Mexican government will be solely responsihle. "Therefore r am ordered to demand the immediate liberation of Mr. Jenkins. "Accept, sir, etc. (SlgheAj , "GEORGE L. SI'M.NTK, IIUN", "Charge d'Affaires." The text of the American note, as well as the reply made by the Mexican government, gov-ernment, was received from Mexico City by the consulate general here, with instructions in-structions to give both documents publicity. pub-licity. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 27. Publishing under a Mexico City date lino the recent statement of General March as to the probable number of men required to occupy oc-cupy and pacify Mexico, El Tiempe, a newspaper published in Cananca, comments com-ments editorially: "From this it is easy to understand that It signifies the latent desire In the spirit of the government of t he United States to Intervene In our affairs, and that in the no distant future these latent desires will bring about action." EE UASO, Tex., Nov. 27. A Mexican, mounted and armed with rifle and automatic auto-matic pistol, gave battle to Mexican customs cus-toms guards along the Rio Grande five" miles east of Juarez, last night, but was finally surrounded and placed under arrest, It became known today. The Mexican Is said to have been the armed escort for two of his countrymen, who were attempting at-tempting to smuggle, whisky to the American Amer-ican side in a wagon. |