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Show MINING MEN ID FORM REGliH J'i Plan to Enter Mexico Run Down Bandits WliH Massacred American HH - Citizens. '''....H MANY VOLUNTEEsfiH '! l Foreign Mining Corporation KH Offer to Supply Arms an4 JH Ammunition Intense B Feeling Aroused. j JH - . i El Paso, Texas, Jan. 13. A plan ta)jj form a regiment, composed of & thottfrjH and American mining men for tMI purpose of entering Mexico and ru ning down the bandits responsible fi the massacre of Americans at Santii Ysabel was formulated at a meetlnc here last night, it was learned tbdaj. At the meetihg it was decided to pH-H sent the plan today to officials of thtH de facto Mexican government witbfcH view of securing the sanction of thtH Carranza government. ! A large number of Americans, i) was stated, had volunteered to johH the force and foreign mining corporH ation had offered to supply the necH essary arms and ammunition. American Consul Jeered. Thomas D. Edwards, American con- tH sul at Juarez, was received witt tH shouts of criticism when he appeared in the lobby of a local hotel filled wlU mining men this morning. "Go back to Juarez where you oej long" was shouted at him by ttHpH mining men surging forward anaH around him. "You are a Villa consul, H you are not an American. Go to Coa- y nulla or somewhere where Villa' is. tH We have eighteen American boys he H murdered. You ought to be proud of your friend." vlk "You cannot intimidate me," said ;H Mr. Edwards calmly and turning his H back he strode from the lobby. H Consul Edwards' Statement. H Consul Edwards stated that -protec H tlon for the massacred Americana H was promised by General Gavirra, commandant at Juarez on January A. H "The state department wired fCjH January 3," he said, "to make urg, H representations to the Carranza llH ernment here to protect the trainl f on which the massacred Americij IH travelled to Santa Ysabel. ( "General Gavirra gave me positt H assurances and a message was s IH to General Trevino upon the matt H General Cavirra assured me that p jH erful forces were being sent by tt H of the capital and by way of Jual H out over the line of the Mexico 4H Northwestern railway to meet at H systematically exterminate the M Promises Not Kept. 1 "None of these things were donslH Consul Edwards was instructed demand of the Mexican authorltivH the immediato protection of properftB of the Maderia company at MadenH and the Person property in westerwflH Chihuahua. f H Tho bodies of G. W. Newman, onil M of the victims, was ordered sent t Keene, N. H., today attnhatofVJVlPB O. Pierce to Los Angeles. TI JH Few Carranza Troops Availably. H Reporting Americans reported ;es&- than 500 Carranza troops In Chihua-- B hua City. Fewer than 1,000 are at H Juarez. Officials here expressed the belief that few men could be sent tjH guard the property of the ModelrsiH company, limited, in compliance witti.. the demand of tho United States. , lH Mining company officials expres3ed:H apprehension of the safety of foreign- H ers in the Santa Barbara and ParjralB mining districts where the Ah;aroH Mining company has operated through lB all the Mexican turmoil. RepyM here indicated that bandits were head- "VH ed toward those districts. j H 00 i ! |
