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Show TROOPS TO REMAIN ON FjIEXICAN soil CARRANZA ADVISED THAT ISSUE. OF WAR OR PEACE IS UP TO HIM. President Rebukes First Chief f0P Manifestations of Eumity and Ad vises Him That Attack Will Lead to Grave Consequences. Washington. President Wilson's answer to General Carranza's cote manding immediate withdrawal of American troops from Mexican eo" leaves the issue of war or peac squarely up to Carranza. A note signed by Secretary Lns. ing, conveying President Wilson's rejection re-jection of the demand for withdrawal of American soldiers from Mexico accompanied ac-companied by a specific warning thy an attack on the troops "will lead iq the gravest consequences" was telegraphed tele-graphed to Mexico City on June 20 by Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican arnhas-sador-designa'e. In plain terms it accuses General Carranza of having brought matters to the verge of 'war by open hostility toward to-ward the United States and failure to safeguard even the lives of Americas3 in Mexico or on the border from tie lawless elements among his countrymen. country-men. In sternest tones the note repudiates re-pudiates and resents, imputations of bad faith and ulterior motives b.-ougj-. against the Washington government in the Mexican communication to which It is a reply. General Carranza is informed in so many words thit protection of its own borders is ti only object sought by the United Slates; and is told that that object wili be pursued whatever the consequences conse-quences may be. President Wilson declares that: 'The government of tie United Slates has viewed wi'Ji deep concern and ir.f-res ir.g cisar pointment :i I regress cf the revolution in Mexico. Kor three years the Mexican republic has been torn with civil s-.rife; tie lives cf Americans and other alieni have ben sacrifired; vast properties developed by American capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered non-productive; tiniits have bt-en permitted to roan at wLU through the territory contiguous to the United States and to scire, without with-out punishment, the property of Americans, while the lives of citiiena of the United States who ventured to remain in Mexican territory or to return re-turn there to protect their interests have been taken, and the murderers have not been apprehended. It would be dlrTi-ult to f.r.d in the annals cf the history of Mexico conditions core deplorable than those which have ei-isied ei-isied there during these recent ye-3-rs of civil w ar. The attacks on Brownsville, Red-house Red-house Ferry . Frogresso postofftce sni Las Feladas. all occurring during September Sep-tember last, are typical. In these attacks at-tacks on American territory Carran-rista Carran-rista adherents and even Carrsnristi soldiers toe's part in tae looting, burning burn-ing and killing. Not only were thvs murders characterized by ruthless brutality, but iir.civil-.iei acts of mutilation muti-lation were perpetrated. ' Since these attacks, leaders cf tbs bandits well known to both Mexican civil and military authorities, as well as to American oCicers. have been envying en-vying with iu.pur.ity the liberiy cf the towns of northern Mexico. "Meanwhile a party of ur.forrur.sl Americans started by train front C'r.i-l C'r.i-l uabua to visit the Cusi mines, afior having received assurances from th C.irr.itirisia authorities in the state cf Chihuahua that tho cour.'ry was s.i.'e and that a guard on the train was net necessary. On January 1 tb.o t-v.a was stopped by Villa bandits and eighteen eigh-teen of tho Arvrioan party were stripped strip-ped of their clothing and shot in c.J blood i:i what is now known as the Santa Ysabol massacre.' ' Candor compels me to sdd tb.'t the v.ticot'.ccaled hostility of the ?'.' ordinate military commanders of the do facto government toward the American Am-erican troops engaged in rursuirc the Villa bands and the efforts of thf de facto government to compel their withdrawal from Mexican territory by threats and s'.vow- of military force, instead of a'ding tn the capture of the outlaws, constitute a menace to the safety of tho American troop ami to tho peace of the border. "Whonovor Mexico will assume and effectively exercise that responsi'.,i'.i''T the United Slates, as It has man times before publicly declared, will be glad to have this obligation fulfilled by the do Taoto government of Mexico, If. on the contrary, the do facto government gov-ernment Is pleased to Ignore this obligation obli-gation and to brlievo that In the o- of a refusal to retirf troops there i no further recourse than to defend i! territory by an appeal to aims, the government of the United St:itoS would purely be lacking in sincerity and friendship if it did not frattMr Impress upon the de facto government that the execution of this threat J'"1 lead to the gravest v on sequences." |