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Show H CAPT. CHAS. T. BOYD'S B-j ERROR. H f ( Capt L. S. Morey's letter, written H j when the officer was wounded and in H I hiding after the Carrizal affair, pre- H I sents a somewhat more favorable side , for the Mexicans than the report of K ' ambush and massacro which strag- B I glers of Boyd's command brought to ; General Pershing. H Capt, Chas. T. Boyd blundered. He V ! was led to advance before an over- H whelming band of Mexicans, believing m M UUU.L U UU1U 11U11L nuum ouiuijJtuo .um H enemy. He was the victim ol a very HI serious mistake many Americans are H making of undervaluing the courage H and marksmanship of the Mexican I- 1 troops who have been campaigning for the past four years. It would be well for the young men who are now going to the border to j appraise the Mexicans as having a H little higher morale. It is well to be H possessed of full confidence, but to be H foolhardy is to be unnecessarily ex- jjj posed to grave dangers and to Invite I death. But Boyd's mistake does not relieve re-lieve the Mexicans at Carrizal from responsibility for their acts of war. H If their superior, First Chief Carranza, H I sustains them in their declaration that j American troops, moving in any dlrec- H tion other than retreating to the north, H j shall be fired on, then hostilities need not a formal announcement of war to be recognized. |
