Show MEXICO O FUTURE I II HOrl HOPELESS I IS OPINION G General Robert obert Lee Howze ai a ai i Witness Before Senate Subcommittee E ELi EI PASO ASO ASO Tex Feb 7 Conditions In ii in Mexico e I were described as intolerable able able bY by General Robert Lee Howze c commander mm of or the El EI Paso Paso district hen when he testified today before the subcommittee senate Investigating the Mexican situation Brierl Briefly and without palliation he expressed the opinion that affairs In that country count had grown grown steadily worse in the past ten years year and that left lett solely in the control contro of or the Mex Mex- leans the future of or that country I i was vas hopeless j I I The appe appearance rance of or General Howze was with the approval of or the war de- de I de-I deI I pai Hm L I j His His' publicly made statement was supplemented by one made In executive I tive session which was not made pub lie I CASUALTIES TOLD The co conclusions of General I were contained In a short statement i I t l he read t to the committee but Its I presentation was preceded by a sum sum- sumi i mary mary of or the ports he had gathered of ot American casualties on the American Ameri Amen American II can side attributable to Mexicans Mexicans' since 1917 1317 It accounted for tor eleven I killed and seventeen wounded i Colonel Francis Glover General Howze's chief of ot staff also was a witness He was asked regarding the fighting In Juarez on June 16 15 1919 when Villas Villa's men capt captured red 16 15 the city and the situation that resulted in in- American troops crossing the International International In- In i boundary Colonel Grover testified that the bullets bullets' which tellIn tell fell fellIn tellIn j In El lI Paso PaM were from both Mexican M armies mies but that the majority were those fired by Carranza soldiers He explained the manner In which h had h hr had ad arrived at that conclusion during durin the lighting fighting He ana and others exposed themselves at the headquarters of ot the second Eighty-second field artillery on the American side ide Reports had reached him that the Mexicans were sniping at that point O ORDERED DERED TO DROP He ordered his men to watch forthe for forthe forthe the rifle fire flashes and then fall The flashes were seen and ind nd as they theys s sank to the ground the bullets struck the walls above them They were fired by a group of ot Villas Villa's men The shots from Carranza's men came he said paid as a result of ot an attack so planned that It would have been Impossible Impossible Im Im- Im- Im possible for lor a great majority of ot the b bullets fired not to have landed InEl in inEl El EI Paso Echoes of ot the Carrizal fight tight were heard by the committee from General Gen er eral l Howze and by George Turner on one cf ot the negro troopers who par- par I I in the tight fight and who carried L I I Captain Boyd fatally wounded out o othe of ot 1 I the firing tIring line I TREATED BRUTALLY i The n negro gro told the committee of ot the brutal treatment accorded him and andi I others who were tal taken en prisoner byI by bythe I the Mexicans ans They were stripped of every shred of ot clothing p half l lf starved and subjected to both mental and physical forms of third degree met methods for tor several days when they were delivered to the Americans atthe at atthe atthe the international bridge between Juarez and nd El EI Paso An Interesting feature of or his hs testimony testimony testimony tes- tes was his statement nt that a number of women accompanying the Mexican forces actually took part inthe inthe in inthe the fighting by one one of or whom he was wounded Other witnesses witnesses witnesses' heard during theda the da day gave corroborative testimony re regarding regarding re- re garding the conditions along the Rio Grande which they claimed made life Ufe in that district impossible except when adequate military protection was given |