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Show 217 AMERICANS SLAIN BY MEXICAN BANDITS BAN-DITS House Rules Committee in. vestigates and Proves Atrocities Worse Since Huer- . ta WASHINGTON, Aug 10. While advocates of tho League of Nations, especially the provision contained In Artlclo X that all boundaries shall be maintained In perpetuity and of maintaining peace and harmony in tho -world forever, havo been declaiming de-claiming In tho Senate nnd elsewhere It has been brought to the attention of the Houso committee on rules that 217 Americans have been murdered mur-dered In Mexico without tho slightest slight-est punishment being meted out by tho Mexican government to their murderers. Of these according to Ambassador Fletcher who gaco the Information, twenty-nine perished while Huerta was In power. After he had been ordered removed by President Wilson Wil-son on the question of tho form ot a saluto to tho flag ot tho United States, which has never yet been inndc, and Carranza "who, according to tho President, represented tho democratic movement In Mexico, 137 Amorlcans havo been killed without tho slightest provocation. Tho list goes back to 1914 when Huerta wns still In the saddle. In 1918 thirty-ono thirty-ono wero murdered nnd in 191C forty-five. So far this year eleven have paid tho penalty of their living in Mexico. Members of Congress taka tho view that the statement attributed attrib-uted to Mexicans that their country U not quiet and that Americans should therefore keep out Is on a level le-vel with the statement of Germany that Americans should keep off the Lusltanla. The ambassador polntedout that many ot the killings were attributed by the governmental authorities in Mexico to suicide. Others were report-ad report-ad as accidentally shot. The crimes range all the way from murder while robbing JIhl Vic-Urn'. .laajafi' treatment ot women before killing. A few were killed at the instigation of the German government which (hen had the sympathy of Mexico. One American was charged with having stolon cattle and wfes shot by tho Mexican military authorities without trial. Another was ordered killed by a Mexican colonel and without trial, the motive having been robbery. Ambassador Am-bassador Fletcher said his list was entirely incomplete, "Do you look upon the Carranzu government ns fulfilling its mission to tho Mexican people?" he was asked. "I would rather testify as to tho facts rather than give my opinions," he replied. "Do you recall one prosecution or one conviction of a Moxlcan for tho murdor of an American citizen?" "I do not rocall any." |
