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Show ILL HOT PERMIT MEXICAN GOVERNMENT DENIES RIGHT OF UNITED STATES TO KEEP TROOPS IN MEXICO. Blame for Santa Ysabel Massacre Placed on Americans and Charge of Bad Faith Made Against Scott and Funston. Mexico City. The foreign office on June 30 issued a memorandum in reply to Secretary Lansing's recent note in which the correctness of assertions in the communication from Washington were repeatedly denied. The memorandum memor-andum declares that the United States has no right to maintain its armed forces on Mexican soil. The memorandum contains thirty-three thirty-three counts. Although not in the form of a direct reply to the Washington Washing-ton note, it is considered equivalent to an answer to that document. It expresses surprise that the Washington Wash-ington government should have been pained at the tone and the contents of the Carranza document, since it maintains that the United States has sent to the constitutional governor not only one, hut many discourteous end even overbearing notes. Emphatically reiterating the Mexican Mexi-can government's position denying the right of the United States to keep armed bodies in Mexico, tho memorandum memor-andum denies energetically that the Mexican government has protected bandits who had committed depredations depreda-tions in the United States and defies Washington to produce proof of the assertion. Blame for the Santa Ysabel massacre massa-cre is placed on the so-called impulsive impul-sive and irrascible disposition of Charles Char-les Watson, general manager of the Cusihuiriachic company, and General Gener-al Scott and General Funston are accused ac-cused of bad faith and lack of honor In misleading General Abregon in an alleged evasive reply regarding the crossing of American troops into Mexico after the Glenn Springs raid. The memorandum asserts while it ia true the United States arrested General Gen-eral iHuerta, the motive which prompt--ed this act -was not a purpose of aiding aid-ing the constitutionalist, but because the United States feared that General' Huerta was plotting with Germany. The note concludes by declaring that the presence of American troops In Mexico invites rather than prevents bandit raids along the border. The memorandum was Issued at the same time that the foreign office authorized au-thorized publication of Secretary Lansing's Lans-ing's recent note. |