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Show GARRANZA REJECTS THAITDffS OFFER SANTI BAN EZ DESIRES PARDON A3 PRICE OF LIVES OF RELATIVES OF MEXICAN GENERAL. Brother of First Chief Being Held As Hostage and May be Executed by Captors When Carranza's Reply is Received. Washington. Elizo Arretiondo, heaj of the Carranza agency here, issued a statement Monday summarizing dispatches dis-patches from Vera Cruz, confirming reports of the capture of General Jesus Carranza, brother of the first chief, by General Alfonso Santibanez in San Geronimo, state of Oaxaca, on December 30. -The general and his son and nephew are being held as hostages, hos-tages, but his entire staff has been executed by Santibanez. The statement said: "General Santibanez entered the ranks of the constitutionalist revolutionary revolu-tionary army at the close of the Huer ta regime, e succeeded in gaining the confidence of General Jesus Car ranza, who supplied him with troops and munitions of war and finally sue ceeded in having him named military commander of the Isthmus of Tehaun-tepee. Tehaun-tepee. "The first chief has received word from Santibanez that if he will sanction sanc-tion some unknown arrajigemenl claimed to have been made between Santibanez and General Jesus Carranza, Car-ranza, and will pardon his treachery and allow him to retain his military office, he will release General Carranza Car-ranza and his two relatives. He makes the threat that unless his conditions are met he will execut General Jesus Carrauza and his son and nephew. "Carranza's reply, feelingly dictated, dictat-ed, was: 'Such traitorous conduct can receive no pardon. If my brother's death is a necessary step towards th triumph of our principles and the es tablishment of peace I am willing that he die. And I know that with the feelings of a true soldier my brother will be willing to sacrifice his life foi his country.' " |