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Show mm REJECTS TRAITOR'S OFFER CANTIBANEi. nEaR3 pARC0NAS jTy'OF LIVES OF RELATIVES OF MEXICAN GENERAL. I Brother of First Chief Being Held As I Hostage and May be Executed by Captors When Carranza's Reply is Received. Washington. Ellzo Arredundo, ),0ad ofihe Curranza agency hero, issued a Mtr.'inr'iit Monday summarizing dispatches dis-patches from Vera Cruz, coulirming ! reports of the capture of General Jesus Cananza, brother of the first chief, by General Alfonso Santibanez in San Ceronimo, stale of Oaxaea, on December The general and ' his son and nephew are being held as hostages, hos-tages, but bis entire staff has been executed by Santibanez. The statement said: "General Santibanez entered the riinl:s of the. constitutionalist revolu-'Mi''j'i..i'iy revolu-'Mi''j'i..i'iy "t- tile close of the liner, ngiine. e succeeded in gaining confidence of General Jesus (,'ar-u, (,'ar-u, who supplied lihn with troops munitions of war and finally Sliced Slic-ed in having him named military mandoi- of the Isthmus of Tehuun-c. Tehuun-c. fhe first chief has received word f,i Santibanez that if he will sane-I sane-I some unknown arrangement lined to have been made between jiibanez and General Jesus Car- j !r..'?f i"J -vill pardon his treachery I and n.iow him to retain his military I oflice, he will release General Car-I Car-I ranza and his two relatives. He makes the threat that unless his conditions 0" nie.t he will execut General Jesus I J Cananza and his son and nephew. I "Carranza's reply, feelingly dictat- ' ed, was: 'Such traitorous conduct can 1 receive no pardon. If my brother's I death is a necessary step towards the I triumph of our principles and the es- tablishment of peace I am willing that ' f he die. And I know that jyifu the feelings of a tr.ae""s6rdier my brother will be wilijr't.o sacrifice his life for his country, " I |