Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-06-27 | Page 10 | United States is Attacked

oi UNITED STATES . IS JTTMED Mexican Foreign Minister Accuses Ac-cuses Government of Perfidy and of Concentrating for War. Mexico City, June 27. Foreign Minister Min-ister Aguilar made public today messages mes-sages sent to Latin-American countries coun-tries In which the government of the United Stites is accused of perfidy and with concentrating troops along the border with hostile purposes towards to-wards Mexico The messages are In answer to communications from South American countries offering their services ser-vices to mediate between the United States and Mexico. The messages say that after the Incident In-cident at Matamoros the United States began to gather its armed forces along the international line with the intention inten-tion of aggression against Mexico It is asserieu tnat iiexico is not seeking war but that if it is forced to fight it will go to the last extreme at the cost "of the blood of its sons and the destruction of its wealth." The messages conclude by stating that the "perfidy" of the American government not only affects Mexico but all Latin-American countries on this continent. It is added that Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican minister at Washington has been instructed to get in touch with his Latin-American colleagues col-leagues who have offered to mediate and to do everything in his power to prevent war. 00 ,