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3 AMERICAN1 NOTE. REACHES GARRAHZA MAP SHOWING SCENE OF BATTLE BETWEEN AMERICANS AND CAKBANZISTAS. It Can't D Mexican Cabinet Convenes on Message and Washing , ton Awaits Reply. one THE SIORSTN'G OEEG ONIAX, THURSDAT, JUNE 22. 1016. Be ' U 'TaCPS t sTn wit C VS" ' pAHUSfAO BRITISH AND FRENCH BUSY Allies Would Block Open Warfare. That Oil Supplies From Tampico Fields May Not Be Cut Off This Critical Time. JIEXICO CITY. June 22. The Amer ican note reached General Carranza and he and his cabinet -went Into session Im mediately on Its receipt. At a late hour tonight no "word had keen given out as to how the Lansing note had been received. WASHINGTON, June 21. Some Inti mation as to what General Carranza's next step will be is expected shortly fcy the State Department. Official ad vices reported tonight that the Amer ican rejection of the demand for the recall of General Pershing's troops from Mexico-was tinder consideration today by the first chief and his Cab inet. Special Agent Rodgers. who made the report, was unable to forecast the ac tion of the.de facto government and threw little light on what was going on in the Mexican capital. From other sources, however, it was learned that European diplomats are exerting pressure on Carranza to pre vent him from going to war with the United States. -The entente allies are particularly anxious, it is understood, that nothing should occur at this time to shut off the oil supplies for the French and British navies from the Tampico fields. Allied diplomatic representatives In Mexico believe, too, that German Influ ences have been working- on Carranza In an effort to create a situation that might embarrass the enemies of the central powers. They have asserted that German agencies have been active In stirring up feeling against the United States, net only in Mexico, but throughout South and Central America, to prevent this country from securing trade formerly controlled by German merchants. It is understood that the diplomats have pointed out to General Carranza that the American note only declines to consider immediately any suggestion that Its troops be withdrawn from Mexico, and that It quotes a portion of the agreement between General Scott and General Obregon, providing, among other things, for "the -gradual with drawal of the forces. Another suggestion Is that the dis pute over border conditions could well be referred to an International com mission under the treaty of 1848 be tween the two countries. Diplomatic officials here are known to believe that President Wilson would consider such a suggestion if he met with no Interference in the meantime in his el forts to guard the American border from bandits. SENATORS FOR EXPANSION (Continued From First Fape.) Ice was in a deplorable state and should be built, up Immediately. Only two Democrats, Representative Hulbert, of New York, and Beaks of Michigan, voted for it. An amendment offered by Mr. Hul bert to increase the appropriation by 114,000,000 was defeated overwhelm ingly. Mexico Uppermost In Debate. Mexico was brought Into the debate several times, but no general discus sion of the question developed. The House adopted without oppo sition an amendment providing that civil service employes of the Govern ment who are called into service with the National Guard shall be given their old positions when mustered out,, but voted down a proposal to increase the pay of guardsmen from $15 to 20 a month during active service. Debate on the bill will continue to morrow. Liberal Party Wins. HALIFAX, N. S., June 21. Figures compiled tonight of the vote cast in the Nova Scotia provincial election today Indicated that the Liberal party headed by George H. Murray has been returned to power. Thirty-one liberals and 12 conservatives were elected to the Leg islature and Cfiarles Tanner for years the leader of the Conservative party, was defeated. A Sensible Ggarette ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage proves it. 25cat all druggists. iSilll Cirriial, Where Battle Wu Feaght, la Shown Directly Soath of El Paso. Distance la SO Miles. To the West la Shown Gunui, Whence American Scooting Parry Started on Trip Which Resulted In Bat tle. To Extreme Sooth la Chlhuaku. Where American Prisoners Were Taken, According- to Mexican Accounts. 20 TROOPERS KILLED Carranzistas Trap Americans: Forty Mexicans Fall. ATTACKING GENERAL DEAD Seventeen Cavalrymen of Tenth Reg iment Captured, According: to Mexican Report, Which Blames Pershing's Men. Continued From F1rt Pag;.) Genoveso Eivas, who commanded the Mexicans after their leader, General Gomez, was slain. . Americans Told to Retire. General Gonzales also gave the Mexican explanation of how the two forces came in contact. According to General Gonzales, he was informed by . General Gomez at Villa Ahumada last night of the presence of the Ameri cans westward between Villa Ahuma da and El Valle. He says he imme diately instructed General Gomez to proceed to the Santa Domingo ranch, where the Americans were reported "in unknown force," and advise their commander to retire to their camp. This, he says, General Gomes did this morning. The American commander, whose name was not given by General Gomez, is said to have replied that he was instructed to proceed to Villa Ahumada and must do so. The statement Issued by the Juarez commander read: "Immediately upon learning or tne nresence of the American troops in the' vicinity of Carrlzal, General Felix Gomes dispatched a messenger with a request that the American commander withdraw to his camp. When the American troops remained motionless he sent a second dispatch-bearer, who was fired upon by the American troops, after he had delivered his message. The Americans immediately moved for ward and attacked General Gomez" command. "All the prisoners admitted that the blame should be put on the American commander for having ordered the at tack. The prisoners were sent to Chi huahua City with the customary pro tection." Whichever side began the engage ment, the Mexicans had the advantage for they had provided themselves with a machine gun. and this is supposed to have done deadly execution in mo ranks of the Americans. That the lat ter were not inefficient, however, was proved by the number of Mexican dead and wounded removed to Villa Ahu mada and witnessed by Americans com ing north on a train to Juarez. The battle began about 10:30 A. M. and lasted not more than an hour. ' It ap parently ended by both sides withdraw ing. The failure of General Pershing to report on It Indicates that the Amer ican survivors had not yet returned to their base at an early hour tonight. Mexicans Boast Treachery A story brought to El Paso by J. C. Hubble, an American -who has been em ployed by the Compania Agricola at Boauillas. bears ofct several of the de tails of the engagement presented by General Gonzales. Hubble's story was corroborated by James Maxey, anoth er American, who also is on his way to El Paso from the interior. Hubble and Maxey said while their train was stopped at Villa Ahumada they noticed numbers of dead and wounded being brought in and were told by a Carran zista captain that a battle had taken place. The captain Informed them, they said, that a number oi Americans, pris oners, had been Imprisoned in a cattle- car and were to be taken to Chihuahua City to be hanged. Hubble and Maxey said that some of the Mexicans openly boasted that the Americans had been drawn into an am bush. They, mentioned Mexican soldiers who told them that several hundred Americans and 120 Mexicans had been engaged. "The Mexican officers at Villa Ahu mada treated us with the greatest courtesy," said Mr. Hubble. "They an swered our questions quietly and with no show of antipathy or excitement. Machine Gun Mows Americans. "According to the story they told us the Mexican command was concealed in the underbrush when it discovered the American cavalrymen riding toward them over the sand. General Felix Gomez, the Mexican commander, im mediately sent a courier asking for a parley under a flag of truce with the American commander. The parley was arranged and as the Mexican leader and two aides started forward the Americans suddenly deployed' in a semi circular skirmish line. "General Gomez, apparently believ ing he was about to be attacked, raised his arm and signalled a machine gun in the rear to open fire on the Amer icans. The machine gun swept the cavalry ranks, causing heavy losses. "Immediately, however, a detachment of American troopers dashed forward under heavy fire to the center of the field, where General Gomez and his staff were sitting on their horses. In the resultant encounter, one of the cav alrymen killed the Mexican leader with his pistol, while the remainder of the Carranzista party escaped to their own lines." The Americans said their Informa tion was that the American dead num bered 17 and five Mexicans had taken 40 prisoners. Neither Hubble nor Maxey was able to learn whether the Americans had re treated. It being pointed out that all of the Mexicans with whom they talked apparently left the field before the en gagement had been completed. Juares May Be Abandoned. Later tonight preparations apparent ly were Under way for the peaceable evacuation of Juarez. Several troop trains were pulled Into the railroad yards ready for immediate use. Andres Garcia, Mexican Consul in CI Paso, crossed the Rio Grande following the first reports of the engagement and remained with General Gonzales through the night. He kept in touch with General Bell on the American side by telephone, however. Neither the Consul nor the Mexican military au tnorities would discuss reports of the proposed evacuation. A large number of citizens "of the town were busy loading their house- noia goods on vans and other vehicles ostensibly to transport them to the south. Numbers of persons gathered about the Plaza immediately when news of the battle became public, but there were no demonstrations. Mexicans apparently confined them selves to speculation as to the con sequences. Heavy patrols were thrown into the streets with instructions to put down any disorders. Mexicans Claim Victory. i general uomer neadauarters a victory was being claimed. The scene In taa front room of the Comandacia. where the young officer were gath ered, was holiday like. Several of them, speaking on the battle, said. "We won." - They remained composed, however. and made little other references to the incident. Juarez first learned of the fight in a vague form in the early afternoon. The civilian population then began to pack their household goods. Many of them had left for Interior points on a morning train In anticipation of trouble, others crossed into Bl Paso later. A curious soene of the late day was a procession or civilians carrying arms. in age tney ranged from small bovs. not as tall as their guns, up to bent oia men. Alost or them were in ragged dress of tht peon, but some belonged to the better class and wore good ciotnes. A noticeable feature was the gaiety ul iuo young oilicers. Toonjf Oflleers Want War. Although beer is the only drink ner- mitted to be sold In Juarez, there was considerable drinking. But only the young omcers, wno naa seen little real campaigning and for the most part had wearied of the monotony of garrison routine, appeared Jubilant over the prospect of war. The older officers, when the chance of a peaceable solu tion was mentioned, would answer "Ojala" (may It be so). No instance of any attempt to molest any American was reported during the daytime. After dark no American Is believed to have remained in Juarez. "This shows how dangerous it is to bring American and Mexican troops in contact," said Mexican Consul Garcia tonight. "But it need not lead to war. It may be treated as a regrettable in cident. I am still optimistic." Consul Garcia said he would spend the night in Juarez, explaining that he might do more good there than on the American side. "You can deny." he added, "that I am going to cloje the consulate In El Paso, for I have received no such in structions." At the international bridge there was no sign of excitement. Soldiers sta tioned there lounged on their rifles as usual. Mexicans who passed afoot. In streetcars and some in automobiles un derwent the usual search and passed on. Mexican Consul Garcia said tonight that a message from Mexico City had been received which stated that the rebels in the states of Zacatecas and Coahulla had given up their fight and joined the Carranza government.- MEXICANS BOAST TREACHERY Wonnded Survivors of Battle Say Americans Were Decoyed. KAN ANTONIO, T-x.. June 21. Gen eral Kunslon received late to night This Sale of Men's Suits f Is of the Greatest Importance Because It Offers- The Choice of Any Suit In All This Season's Styles At Less Than Present Wholesale Cost f Any man with a new suit in mind cannot in justice to his pock- I etbook overlook this sale. Every man who knows good clothing c will at once appreciate the superiority of these suits, which can now i be had at the price of ordinary kind. 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The wounded were taken to Ahumada. From the American who passed through Ahumada at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon General Bell learned that the Mexicans believed the American force to have been a detachment of the Tenth Cavalry. General Funston said tonight no or ders changing the situation would be issued to General Pershing or to Gen eral Bell until he had received the offi cial report from General Pershing. Both the American's version of the reports heard at Ahumada and the re port made by General Gonzales agreed that the Mexican force was commanded by General Gomez, and that ho was killed .during the action. According to the report General Gon zales said he had received the Ameri can detachment came into contact with the Mexican force through messengers sent forward to parley by General Gomez. General Gomez, according to the Mexican version, sent forward a commissioned officer and an enlisted man under p white flag to parley with the American commander, the object being to ask him to retire. The Americans, the Mexicans claimed, fired upon the messengers without warning. Almost Immediately after the American attack, the Mexicans re plied with machine gun fire, wounding and killing many of the Americans. Apparently there ensued a brief period in which neither side fired, but soon the Americans went into action, with a brisk fire that was replied to by General Gomez's force. CALM URGED OX EIj PASO Mayor Assures Citizens Protective Measures Are Ample. EIj PASO. June 21. Consul Garcia announced over the telephone from Juares late tonight that he had re ceive), official reports confirmatlng the fact that the American command en gaged was part of the Tenth Cavalry, a negro regiment. 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