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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that Its troops be withdrawn from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.
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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
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"MercUndi
from General Bell, at El Paso, the
Mexican version of a fight today be
tween a detachment of General Per
shing's troops and troops of the de
facto government. at Carrlzal, nine
miles southwest of Ahumada.
A slightly different version was
brought to El Paso by an American,
who passed through Ahumada and
there heard Mexicans boasting that
they had decoyed the Americans into
an action by the use of a flag of truce.
The casualties on neither side were
reported by General Bell, whoso infor
mation was received from Andres Gar
cia, Mexican consul at El Paso, who
gave It at the request of General Gon
zales, commander at Juarez.
General Gonzales had received the
report from Ahumada, a station on the
National Railway that connects Chi
huahua, the capital of the state, with
the border. 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.
He had no details, however, as to the
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number of Americans or Mexicans en
gaged, he said.
Tom Lea, Mayor of El Paso, issued
a statement tonight, in which he urged
the people of the city to remain calm
In the crisis.
He said: "The military and civil au
thorities have made every preparation
to protect El Paso in any eventuality
and no cause for alarm should be found
In the reported engagement between
American and Mexican forces at Car
rlzal.
"Business is progressing In the nor
mal way, and there is absolutely no
cause for apprehension for the safety
or any person in this city."
Fire Endangers Cottonwood.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. June 21. Fanned
by a brisk north wind a brush . and
grass fire Is within three miles of
Cottonwood, Shasta County. The fire
is reported to be fast eating Its way
through brush and fallen timber.
Hundreds of fire fighters are working
to save the city which was threatened
with destruction two days ago from
the same cause, but fighters drove the
tire back.
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