Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-15 | Page 3 | Mexico Quieter, Bonillas Says

MEXICO QUIETER, BDNILLAS SAYS Mexican Ambassador Reports Re-ports Conditions in Republic Re-public Improved. By JAY JEROME WILLIAMS. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 14. "Vastly improved im-proved conditions" were found in Mexico by Ygnaclo Bonillas, Mexican ambassador ambassa-dor to the United SLates, he declared today to-day upon his return to the capital after a month's absence. The ambassador was optimistic in his predictions regarding the future of Mexico Mexi-co far more optimistic than any official of the state department has been for the past few months. He told of the extension of - the public school systems and the pacification of bandit areas. He said he was going to ask the United States to permit the sale of guns, ammunition am-munition and supplies to Mexico and renew re-new hid requests for the purchase of airplanes. air-planes. Many of the murderers of Americans, he declared, have been executed for their crimes. While he did not mention any specific instances wherein slayers of Americans have been meted out jvstice, Mr. Bonillas made the assertion as a fact. The state j department within the last four months, however, has not made public any correspondence corre-spondence which indicated that Mexican murderers had paid the penalty for the murder of Americans. "A number of murderers of Americans have been captured," said Mr. Bonillas, "and they have been given passports to a place where it will not be possible for them to do any damage." The Mexican government, he said, has absolutely no intention of confiscating property. WASHINGTON, July 14. Request was made by Governor Robertson of Oklahoma in telegrams received today by the state department, for an investigation of the murder of John W. Correll, an American citizen, the mistreatment of his wife and the wounding of their son by Mexicans in the Tampico district of Mexico. "This unprovoked and unwarranted assault," as-sault," the Oklahoma governor's telegram said, "is but one of thousands that have occurred in the republic of Mexico against American citizens during the past few years, and no reparation has ever been made for same. "Oklahoma has a large number of Mexicans Mex-icans who enjoy the fullest protection of our laws and who on the slightest pretext pre-text and frequently on inspired propaganda propa-ganda made complaint to their ambassador ambassa-dor at Washington. During my short incumbency in-cumbency as governor I have conducted not less than three rigid investigations on complaints emanating from the Mexican ambassador at "Washington with results that none of the complaints were true. All of them were feigned and trumped up, and a part of systematic propaganda which is being carried on by some one unknown to me. "Our people have come to believe that American citizens and the American flag count for nothing-m the republic of Mexico Mex-ico and I am determined that this condition condi-tion shall cease. I hereby demand a most thorough, exhaustive and immediate investigation of the -murder of John W. Correll and the abuse and mistreatment of his wife and son as above indicated." WASHINGTON, July 14. Murderers of a number of American citizens in Mexico have been apprehended and executed ex-ecuted by the Mexican government, which, through expenditure of two-thirds of the republic's revenues in the work of pacification, . is slowly restoring order, or-der, it was said today by Tgnacio Bonillas, Bonil-las, Mexican ambassador to the United States, who has just returned to Washington Wash-ington from Mexico City.