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Show VILLA RECEIVES U. SJWEST I General Names Committee to Investigate Spanish Situation Situa-tion at Chihuahua, 1 PROPERTY INVENTORY Spaniards N o t Supporting General Huerta Will Receive Re-ceive Indemnity for Losses. rhihurihua, Mexico. Dec. 19. General Gen-eral Francisco Villa said today he would be disposed to follow the sug-vention sug-vention of the Fnlted State as to the rights of foreigners In Mexico. In conformity with this plan, he named I rommlttee to take an Inventory of the property of the expelled Sjwnlards i and said he would Indemnify such ot the Spaniards as had not actively sup ported the Huerta government. General Villa has received through the American consul representations b expressed the position of the United States In assuming moral le-sponslhlllty le-sponslhlllty for the welfare of . Itiiena Ol Other nations and which called upon up-on General Villa for a strict accounting account-ing of his acts should the rights of ! any foreigners be violated. A communication also has been received re-ceived from General Carranra, the d of the revolution, following the protests of Spaniards that their property prop-erty had been seized and the protests of other foreigners that they had ii. . n forced to pay money to the rebel cause. "I ordered all pro-perty belonging" to Spaniards be confiscated and held by the constitutionalist Kovernment, lending an investigation as to who of the Spaniards aided tbe Huerta government." said General Villa in order to guard the property while it Is in our hands 1 have named hon-i.rnble hon-i.rnble and responsible persons to take inventory of it. Iluuua. c . c i- "II u set --sary to expel the Span lardl because their lives were in B danger here and it was necessary to B Impose a penalty of death ln order B that they would go It is well known thai In the uprising ln Mexico City last K.-bruary hundreds, of Spaniards In the Cludad sided with Felix Diaz and with arms co-operated In the up 1 I rising which enabled Huerta to brinj, u much Buffering to Mexican". When 1 attacked Torreon, Spaniards again B 1 fired on us on the pretext that they B were guarding their own Interests. B, In Chihuahua the majority of Spam- B ards were Huerta sympathizers. V.'hon HB I utered the city. I resolved upon B their expulsion because their lives l were In danger from the feeling held IX cgalnst them by our army. The rights of all foreigners have, Em and will be, protected. Arrests ate being made dally of persons suspected B of being Huerta sympathizers. They 111 are held pending an investigation of jM their acts." B iietieral Villa probably will remain B h. re until the arrival of General Cat- H ranza. the time of whose coming Is 'm unknown. If WarshlDs Due at Vera Cruz. Wa-shlugton. Dec. 19 The battle- H hhlp Connecticut and Kansas, enroute 3.1 front Guatanamo to Vera Cruz to re JJ Here the New Hampshire and Lou- f3 i l.i i.. i ire due to arrive there tomor- Fm row. It was said at the navy de- H partmenl today that the Ixmlslana Hj and New Hampshire would start i,m j north immediately on the arrival of 1 1 the other vessels. jMd Ihe cruiser California, which has n bad a long tour of duty off the Pa- II Mexican coast Is returning from Mazntlan to San Diego, Cal. B oo |