Show S TO E N SOIL CARRANZA ADVISED AD THAT ISSUE OF WAR OR PEACE IS UP TO HIM resident rei ident rebuke rebukes firt first chief for malfet bione tione of dumity and ad vies vises him that attack will lead to grave consequences washington president wilsons answer to general carranza note de minding immediate withdrawal of american adf rican troops from mexican soil leaves the issue of war or peace squarely qu arely up to Car carranza rania A note signed by secretary lansing conveying president wilsons Wll sons rejection of the demand for withdrawal of american soldiers from mexico exico 31 accompanied by a specific warning that an attack on the troops will lead to the gravest consequences was telegraphed to mexico city on june 20 by eliseo arredondo mexican ambas eador designate in plain terms it accuses general carranza of having brought matters natters to the verge of war by open hostility to ward the united states and failure to safeguard even the lives of americans in mexico or on the border from the lawless elements among his countrymen in sternest tones the note repudiates tes and resents imputations of bad faith and ulterior motives brought against the washington government in the mexican communication to which it Is a reply general carranza is informed in so many words that protection of its own borders Is the only object sought by the lie un td states arnd Is told that that object will be pursued whatever the conse may be president wilson declares that the government ft rf the united states has viewed with deep concern and increasing disappointment the progress of the revolution in mexico for three years the mexican republic has been torn with civil strife the lives of americans and other aliens have been sacrificed vast properties lei developed by american capital and enterprise nave have been destroyed or rendered non nonproductive productive bandits have been permitted to roam at will through the territory contiguous to the united states and to seize without punishment the property of americans Arne ricans while the lives of citizens of the united states who ventured to remain in mexican territory or to return the there to protect their interests have been taken and tho murderers have not been apprehended it would be difficult to find in the annals of the history of mexico conditions more deplorable than those which have existed there during these recent years of civil war the attacks on brownsville Browns ville redhouse ferry progresso postoffice post office and las geladas Pe ladas all occurring during september last are typical in these attacks on american territory carran caan zista adherents and even Carran zista toola part in ane looting burning and killing not N only were these murders characterized by ruthless brutality but uncivilized acts of mutilation were ere perpetrated since these atutis atU att cis cli leaders of the bindics well known to both mexican civil and military author authorities itle 8 a as a well as to american officers have halve been enjoying with impunity the liberty of the towns tow ns of northern mexico meanwhile lean while a party of unfortunate americans started by train from chihuahua to visit the cusi mines after having baing rac received elvod asu assurances rances from the Carran zista authorities in the state of chihuahua that the country was safe and that a guard on the train was not necessary on january lu 10 the train was as stopped by villa bandits and beigh e agh teen of the Arner amerlan lai party 7 v cre strip ped of their clothing and sh shot ot in cold blood santi sant ad in that hat Is now known as the ysabel massacar mas sacr candor cl ador compels me ine 0 to o add thit the unconcealed hostility of the subordinate tic de facto military commanders anders of the government toward the am arn troops engaged in the tile villa V ilia ban bands d a and the tile efforts pursuing of the de do facto government to compol compel their witha dwal dal bom in mp NIP ican can alre turbans turbats its territory by and show s low of military foren the instein outlaws of al aiding ding in the coture of constitute a menace to the safety of the american anu and to 0 the peace of the b border order troops whenever hene er mexico toxic 0 will assume and exercise that tile t ie united i responsibility states as it I 1 lus times before 3 man many y publicly declared will III be alli to hae ath e this jogatic by the dp de facto n fulfilled it on the gove government rement of mexico contrary the de do facto t Is gov pleased sn to ignore this ration gation 9 obil ami anti to bel believe eve that in 0 t a the case refusal to to retire sheroll no further troops there is territory rk by recourse than t to defend fend i its an appeal to iseno of the arms the united would surly sur ly b state 1 picking in u find sincerity it it 1 I not lir press frankly ka upon the de facto hat the government execution of this end ad to to the threat will gravest consequences |