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Show JENKINS OBTAINS RELEASE j j U. S. Consular Agent Is III Freed By Mexican 11 Judge f I A'ASHINGTON. Dec. 5. The Amer-j (ran embassy of Mexico City notified the !1ate department today thai Amor-; wan consular Agent William 0. Jen- 1! kins at Puebla, Mexico, had been te- Uased from custody ji I It was announced at the state de- I partmeni lhat the advices from the embassy said Jenkins bad been liber-1 aied last nisht from the penitentiary where be had been held pending trial v' on charges of giving false information ff regarding bis abduction by Mexican bandits in October. The dispatch to the state depart-, menl follows: j.jj n "William renklnB; the American ', j, ronsul at Puebla. was released at 10 I I o'clock Thursday by order of the ' ,1udpe at Puebla, according to a dls- ; patch from that city filed at 2:C" o'clock there this morning." Returns to Home. ; j Consul Jenkins retired immediately 1 j ' to his home, the message stated, j The embassy's dispauh reached the ! J state department coincident with (he i'l arrival at the White House of Senator I J J ' 1 Fall and Hitchcock, who were m f I ilj Btructed by the senate foreign rcla 1 lions committee to discuss with the ! H president p-ni ins resolutions propos- L I. inp that the president be requested to .1 ki sever diplomatic relations with the1 I i Carraaxa government, j j j The announcement by the state de partment follb s j "The release of William 0 Jenkins, the American consular agent at Puebla, n.'JJ' Mexico, was reported late this afternoon after-noon from the American embassy al HUitil Mpvlrn Citv" Release Reported. r!: The secretary of state announced' j,1 1 that a dispatch from the embassy stated that Third Secretary Hanna of ! I the embassy, who was sent to Puebl J jl in connection with the departments ' ' repeated represcniations for the imme-Mki imme-Mki diatc release of Jenkins had reported that Jenkins was released Horn the j i penitentiary nighl Jenkins was abducted October Pi and the American i oibi $sy was immediately imme-diately Instructed to take all posslbli masures to affect bis release from the bandits who had rolib.Mi and kidnaped him Jenkins was released on ransom and on returning to Puebla October 26, was taktn to a hospital on thai dale I'lij and was arrested on November 15 by j (be Mexican authorities and taken ln- Situatjon Serious, j While the release oi Jenkins sercd I'M j to relieve in a way the tension here on the Mexican situation, officials ha'. e explained that the Jenkins' i was only an ine'dent in the Mexic; i situation Senators regard the eharges of Senator Pall lhat the Mexican Mexi-can ambassador and consuls in th-iTnited th-iTnited Stateg have sperad 'red 1 propaganda prop-aganda as the jaore serious. |