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Show 927 FOREIGNERS SLAIN IN MEXICO BESIDES YANKEES WASHINGTON". L'ec. 5. Tho fresiJcr.'. today stent to the se::ati-. In responsio to a rcs uu-.ion adopted la: t Jui.o. a report from S-crctary Lansing that 9-7 citizens of ciunlrios ut'nor T!u;n tho Uniteil States I had boen hilu-.l in Mexico since the overthrow over-throw of P"rfi:-io I'iaz. More than one-thirii one-thirii c-t tliose killed wns t.'hm.efco. The relcrt Mipplementi'd one recently made to ilie senate on the number of Americans kj'.ed in Mexico. The text of Seerciary Lansin.i; s letter to the president, transmitted to the senate, sen-ate, follow: "Tiie undersl-rned, secretary or state, ins the honor to reler to his report, dated the 31st of July last. In which a reply, in pari, is made lo trie resolution adopted adopt-ed by the senate in June, l'.U'J, in respect to claims against Mexico for the destruction de-struction of life and properly of American Ameri-can citizens In that country, and. In further fur-ther reply to the resoiuU'-n. has the honor to stale, that tho number of nationals of other countries than tho I'nitcd States who have been killed in Mexico since president Diaz resigned, as gathered from reports from the representatives of this government in Mexico, is 9-7. as follows: i .'nines?, 4 71; Spanish, IDS'; Arabs, 111; Uriilsh. ?.S; Italian, lti; Krench, 1-1: Japanese, 10, and miscellaneous, miscel-laneous, 58." Denies Fall's Charges. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 5. Ae-sertlnK Ae-sertlnK that an attempt was being made "to make a mountain out of a molehill," Mexican Consul G. moral Gonzales de la Mata of San Antonio denied that Mexican Mexi-can consuls were active in any plan to distribute Bolshevik propaganda such as Is said to ho in the hands of Senator Fall's committee. Fight With Yaquis. A'JCA PRIETA, Sonora, Mexico, Dec. 5. Information from tho federal commander com-mander or the military district of Moc-tezuina, Moc-tezuina, south of hero, tells of a prolonged battle west of Moctezuma proper late "Wednesday, between Cammza troops and a band of Yaqul Indians under leadership of a nemo officer. The noifro, according to tho military, whs badly wounded and carried away by tho Indians, who were later forced to retreat into the hills. It Is en id that tho neuro was formerly a member of a cavalry regiment stationed on the border. Lane Denies Report. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6. Denial that President Taft, In 1912, ordered Americans Ameri-cans to quit Mexico, as -was stated In a dispatch last night from El Paso. Texas, w-as made here today by Henry Lane Wilson, American ambassador to Blexico during Mr. Taft's administration. "No such order, calling on Americans to quit Mexico, was Issued by President Taft in 19ia," said Mr. Wilson. "On my recommendations, Mr. Taft did advise ad-vise Americans in Isolated localities to conyrtKato in urban centers, but no order or-der was issued." Action Is Deferred. ' 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. Senator Ashurst s resolution authorizing the secretary sec-retary of war to use the army In protecting pro-tecting Americans on the American side of tho Mexican border was laid before tho senate military committee today, hut action was deferred until next week. |