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Show TIA JUANA TOO WICKED, CITY OF SAN DIEGO SAYS WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 Ke-newed Ke-newed protests against vice con- ditlons alleged to prevail at Tla j Juana, Lower California, reached the state department today but then- was no lndteatlon that the previous attitude ol the government, govern-ment, that It could not put Itself , in the position of censoring Mexican Mexi-can morals, would be altered. WA8HINQTON, Hec. 18,-r-ThS stato department today wa-s petitioned peti-tioned to protest to the Mexl. an government against alleged "vice conditions" in Tlajuuna. Mexico, across the border from .Sun I 'lego. Cal., and until such conditions were corrected, to deny passports to Americans desiring to go. Th--petition was signed by the mayor and officials of twenty-four civic and publii welfare organizations of San Ulego. and was presented hy representatives of the Methodist Metho-dist board "f temperance, American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, Antl-SalOOtl Antl-SalOOtl I Sag lit and other national organizations who declared San Diego was "suffering seriously because be-cause of Tlajuana's misbehavior." ! Asking the department to "t Lka cognisance of conditions which allow al-low practically freo passage between be-tween San Ulego and Tlajuuna." the petition declared "fully ninety per cent" of arrests made In San Diego were traceable to evils In Tlajuana." I'ntll these conditions are corrected, the petition :ald. It would !, "Imp. slid. n I '.. k'o to free Itself from prostitution I and traffic In drugs." Discussing the passport situation situa-tion the petition said: "One day permits are granted free of charge anil may be obtained obtain-ed without difficulty, and according accord-ing tO reports, the passport Offices have even been kept open on holl dayi in, Sun day a at certain times to accommodate applicants for passports." |