Show I 1 lal IT ED TO M ICO CARRANZA DECLARES HIS ARMY WILL TAKE UP CHASE OF VILLA BANDITS insists that american army has ha fulfilled its object as far as it will be able to do so villas party having been dispersed etaro mexico the de facto government ol of mexico op april 12 sent a note to washington to be delivered to secretary lansing demanding the withdrawal of american troops from mexico the note was sent to eleseo arredondo carrangas Carran zas representative in washington with the following instructions deliver the following note to secretary lansing as ending negotiations for a reciprocal passing of and asking for for of the territory occupied toy by american forces in view of villas party having been destroyed and mexican forces having relieved those in pursuit oi oc the bandits a few days after the event at columbus the note declares that the mexican government in its desire to conserve cordial and 11 unchangeable i good relations of friendship which ought to exist between mexico and the united t ed t states did n not ot hesitate to make to the government of the united states under date of march 10 EL a proposal by means of which the forces of one and the other country could reciprocally cipro cally cross the dividing line in pursuit of bandits if unfortunately there should be repeated along the border acts like those committed in I 1 columbus bolum bug it Is charged however that a crooked interpretation was placed on the note and that the mexican government in insisted sIlted in its note of march 17 that the reciprocal passage of troops would be permitted only it if unfortunately from rom this time forward there should be repeated attacks like ehe one registered at columbus or of any other kind whatever at any part of the frontier line the declaration Is made that as the american expedition into mexico has fulfilled its object in so tar far as it will be able to do so as the party headed by villa has already been dispersed and finally because there are mexican troops in sufficient lent number pursuing them and more forces are being sent to exterminate the rest of the beaten party parly the first chief of the constitutionalist army charged with the executive power of the nation considers that it Is already time to treat with the united states government tor for the withdrawal of their forces from our territory |