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Show CARRANZA REJECTS TIMS OFFER B 3ANTIDANEZ DESIRES PARDON A8 fl PRICE OF LIVES OF RELATIVES fl OF MEXICAN GENERAL. H Brother of First Chief Being Held Aa H Hostago and May be Executed by H( Captoro When Carranza's H Reply Is Received. H Washington. Kllzo Arrcdondo, hond H Df tho Carranza agency horo, issued a H statement Monday summarizing dls- H patches from Vera Cruz, confirming H reports of the capturo of General H Jcsuh Carranza, brothor of the first H chief, by General Alfonso Santlbnnoz H In San Goronlmo, sUito of Oaxnca, on H December P.O. The general and Ills H son ami nephew aro being hold as hos. H tages, but bin entire staff has been H oxocutcd by Santlbanez. H Tho statement said: H "General Santlbanez entered tho H ranks of tho constitutionalist rovolu- Hj tlonary army at tho closo of tho Huor- H ta rcglmo. o succeeded In gaining fl tho confldeuco of General Jesus Car- H ranza, who supplied him with troops B and munitions of war and finally sue B cccded In having him named military H commander of tho Isthmus of Tohuun- H "Tho first chief has received word B . from Santlbouez that if ho will snnc- fl Hon somo unknown arrangement H claimed to havo beon mado between fl Santlbanez and Goneral Jesus Car- H ranza, and will pardon his treachery B and allow him to retain Kls military H ' office, ho will roleaso General Car- B y ranza and his two relatives. Ho makoe H tho threa.t thai unless his conditions B , aro met ho will oxocut tionoral Jesus B Carranza and Tils son and nephew. M v "Carrnnja's reply, feelingly dlctat fl ed, was: 'Such traitorous conduct can H rocelvo no pardon. If my brother's fl death Is a noceBsary step towards the M triumph of our principles and tho es- H tabllshment of peaco I am willing that M ho dlo. And I know that with the M n feelings of a truo soldier my brothot 1 will bo willing to Bacrlflco his Ufa foi H his country.' " |