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BepERS CARRANZA [ PpE PRISONERS, ft) TROOPS TO BORDER ftTtPHFC order that a clear knoK'edgo of what IfllNjIILU had happened at Carrizal should be at <F hand. 'm PARRAN7A "But If they are going to attack our P vrtlVRnllLH men without cause*' he said, "there is only one thing to do. We will never s have peace down there until we use in Summoned fore enough to compel it." ?e* PnmmittnA There is reason to believe that the ( ^pmmiuee military situation mav bo influonelm: t H0US6 for ^e Administration's diplomatic course, . as well as the desire to make it clear merence on world and particularly to the Latin-American Nations that the United States is being forced into warlike n. measures by hostility of General CarI* ranza. HVED FROM Tho War Department is making t -^.GOVERNMENT "f,0" '? "5T1 ?p -obiiizatton j (///. v'. ?f the National Guard. A few coralf////,Afr panics have been mustered in. Others will take the oath at once. In 48 hours, j Wa8 Direct | probably, a substantial force will bo tf Other- j en route to tbe border to back up * Border as General Funston's line. j Communl- M"st first Be u It ninv be four or five days, how- | ^ ever, before War Department officials tfjj A ? would feel safe in withdrawing regu- j ' * _ * * lars from tho border patrol to form when f 1 ! the. cutting edge of whatever force y . CAMPS they may hurl to the support of Gen , oral Pershing's column, should aggres den nan 38,000 sive action be ordered. j .1 .lal Guards- It seems doubtful that a formal dtp '< Trent of the lomatie rupture will be forced before! states east adequate military precautions are pos T?nd District sible, particularly as it hus been indi- j thf,n mobiliza- T I rated that quick, drastic action, is ] night, six President Wilson's desire should Gen r\'was issued, oral Carranza force the use of the ^yport forward- army against him. tpartment by Mr. Wilson's visitors sought light V6d, command- > on those questions. Specific figures' 4g>t. Of this wore not available as to the garrisons I *aehu?ets contribu- at various border towns, the number ! ^ ftew Jersey 5,000. l of guardsmen who have responded tc t fh, _ the Pres.dent's call, or the time that H' - would he rennirnd to tho onllrn i demand for the im- force to the border. These details ft the. American troop- bavo been left to the War Department % at Carrizal icoupled and Secretary Hakor was not present TcatJon that J^ie Unit- at the conference. The general situ * an >eftrly statement at*on was presented, however, and PHlie Carranza Gov- fbere is reason to suppose that the For It Mpaphed tfa Mexico Affairs Committeemen opproved < Lanringx' the President's course. the State No Ta,k of Mediation. iMdrcommunication On0 fact aa to the conference is Gcwernment stating significant. There was no discussion flaPtfight was the direct ?f possibility of mediation. The ; te tu> attack American subject was not mentioned either by Sg otherwise than to- th6 President or his callers. Scnatoi 4(r 'personal 1 y issued by s,flne said. lU to General Trevino Thla statement came in the face of | >er communicated to a formal notification to ElLseo ArreOg dondo, Mexican ambassador designate .retary Lansing requires hia government, that it approved clo Government transmit principle of mediation as pro Mnent "as to the course P?sed secoral Latin-American |aJ- determined uybn," countries. Mr. Arrcndondo expected ^?$r diplomatic Chanel's, carl-v authorization to begin con versa Mtya subordinate military tioPa wl1h hla Latin American col | M leagues here, in an effort to diveri jKk communication is con- f'io crisis to peaceful channels. < , ? , A .. Tll<wn ma .... 4.U?? I MBujy uansing eiaies, as | ' *"- " " *" "" i uLfii Qf deliberately hos- diplomat had attempted to sound Sec | i Sgaiugt the fwces of the i pe,ary Lansing Jn this respect, i now itfWe*lco and of n ,8 k"?wn. however, that he ? te eMack ^without provo- : holds Uiat the United States has noth 1 mmr they move from their I lnS 10 mediate since its only object , JHfc de?rKe the friendly 18 the protection of its own borders ] are ongaged ,Ie has formally notified all latin 1 8 vjAvi jn t^he Amer- American diplomats that the Washing \ 8 ton government has no aggresive pur Vence. pose toward Mexico, hut is resolved t air required to to 'ree 'ts citizens along the bordet ' I Tnally and of *he danger of bandit raids. ( WaJJ behind the 1 \W ATvansing's BRINGING A LETTER f % /will^jpet TO PRESIDENT WILSON , however, the 1 1 _^Pnment Is determin- Paris. A Madrid dispatch to Thf 1 A*V;to Government shall Temps quotes The Imparclal as re . vdftaibillty before the porting that President Wilson will re t f jtorcell upon the United rPive 11 ntessage from the German Em ] f JT peror in the same manner as did King ; 1 JLI the military situation Alfonso. This statement is included , were talked over *n an interview which the represents < MViouse by the President tJvo? of The Imparclal had with the 11/Stone, of the Senate Carman naval attache, von Krohn, jfea Committee, Senator who declared that the bringing of let , Republican member, of th? King of Spain by a Germar , tiFlood of the House submarine could not affect Spanish ] jJ>reign Affairs. Rep- neutrality, which the Germans respect f*T ranking minority The Spanish newspapers, the dls Laft^v ,4i. on /> V* J aV r. , w wftfl I */tfctwl mxiun' uomanu uikux ui? govern' ( x ment take measure** to prevent a repe j lasted tltlon of the submarine Incident. , hour, Senator Stone ? I ion was "exceedingly Presents Mediation Offer. i l>sident had felt It Washington?Ignarlo Calderon, mln- < jiiJnt Congress with Ister from Bolivia, acting on "the be ' jl8 and the action [ half of several South and Central i TV. Foreign Affairs | American republics, has presented to ] f?*lndlcated that he | Secretary Tensing an offer already ac t *n ' feew a Joint see- rented "in principle" by General Car 1 cago,_w gen^e jn a , ran/.a to mediate In the crisis with | lies it - this Mexico. \ t worked v B Govern- V ( Ism In Colt, -^portunity ? ? *~*-t Wilderness f ^ * * . in 1904 Si8 SOM"! MARYLAND GUARDS [ 1 ten twenty ' HAVH A "YELLOW SfREAK." I ? ten twentx at tho con- - rr?. JL I , an unusual >?erai (^ar. Baiti 't -?*<. ^ f 1 Former pr0 Amerl- ^ 1 a8" On& OI 6llt j . eoclation ofS r" J 0wa' maV h V \ active in clv*^^ HI-. 1W rf uJJ1 fc| ^ where he lives h Uo *d >r of SplClWainlnfl I. the United S^and | merce, Mr. rarrifl S?v?W orsth^^-xwre banded II all over the counL.J(I together and atril T of yellow ^ topics concerning tled t0 un^-me. They j! American history M. wera mftrched throim the com- ? ? peoy street, while ^nelr com- ;i 18 radee yelled "eee fthe yellow * ** streak In them!" 1 * ' * In - , . , . L ........ I | I i * . ^ THE LANCASTER N MOREY LEFT TO DIE, IKES WAY 100J. TROOPS AMERICAN CAPTAIN 3ENDS LETTER TO PER8HINQ DESCRIBING CARRIZAL AMBUSH. MHSI SURVIVORS TELL OF BATTLE AT CARRIZAL Captain Lewis Sidney Morey of the Tenth Cavalry Wires His Wife That He is Safe on the American Line of Soldiers. San Antonio, Texas.?Left to die of ;oss of blood and thirst, two miles from the scene of the encounter be.ween Mexican anil American troops it Carrizal, Capt.. Lewis Sydney Morey of the Tenth Cavalry has made >ack to the American lines. General Funston received by telephone from Mrs. Morey, now at \ustin, Tex., the following message I vlvlch reached her by wireless from ! he field: "Somewhere in Mexico. Am back m the line with two men, safe. "SYDNEY." That, according to Mrs Morey, was he manner in which Captain Morey signed all communications to her. A letter from Captain Morey written vhile hiding in a hole near the scene >f the fight at Carrizal, after his men lad been broken and scattered by j :ho Mexican force, was received by jeneral Funston through General Pershing. Letter Tells of Ambush. In that letter Captain Morey had lescribed how, fearing an ambush, he American troopers had advanced n battle formation on the Mexicans vi.o had come out from Carrizal durng i parely over permission for the Americans to pass through the town; low the Mexicans had opened fire, j ind how the remaining Amcricaus lad been forced to retreat and scat- | :er, each for himself. Army officers tere hope that the return of Captain Morey will serve to provide the misdng links in the story of the cnc-ount*r at Carrizal and determine the fate >f each member of the little reoouaoltering expedition. How Captain Morey managed to make his way to the American main column, a distance of more than 80 miles. Is unknown here, but It is inferred he was picked up by a detachment of the rescuing force sent 3ut by General Pershing. Ho was without food or water in a desert country and it is believed his sn.TerIngs must have been intonse. Nothng to confirm rumors of a clash between Pershing's men and the Carrantistas was received by General Funiton tonight and all was reported juiet along the border. Left to Die in Desert. Captain Morey wrote his letter at 1:15 a. m.t June 21, while hiding in i hole about 2,00ft yards from the jceno of the battle. Captain Morey was wounded and had another woundid man with him. The three unbounded men were picked up by a letachment under Lieut. Henry A. Meyer, Jr., of the Tenth Cavalry and :.he letter Drought to General i'ershng today. Captain Morey was left to die upon he desert from thirst and his wounds. Hie men abandoned him at his own irders. The three unwounded men lad carried him, according to their dories, to Lieut. Meyer from the hole where he had hidden and made their j way nearly two miles from the but- ! Jefleld. They were forced to stop and Cap:ain Morey, believing himself hop<* essly wounded, ordered them to leave llm. They also thought him about to lie from loss of blood and thirst and ibeyed. Vague About Details. The stories of the rescued men told :o Lieut. Meyer were vague about the letails of the fight, according to GenPershing's report to Gen. Funston. Captain Morey's letter told of the lolning of Troop C under Captain Charles T. Boyd and Troop K under its own command at OJo Santo Domingo, June 20, and the advance torether toward C&rrlzal June 21. He irrlved in an open field a mile from riarrizal at 7:35 in the morning, rhere they halted and Captain Boyd tent a courier into Oarrizal asking ' permission of General Felix Gomez .0 enter the town, saying he was go- j ng to Villa Ahutnada. Gomez replied that he would not be allowed o enter the town, hut might make a letour around it. Fearing that they were about to be rapped by the Mexicans which had tallied out from the town during the mrely, the American troops deployed n battle formation, mounted and noved forward. The Mexicans then ipened Are. Captain Boyd ordered lis men to dismount and return the ire, the engagement lasting about an tour. Captain Morey's Letter. Following is the text of Moray's attar: 'Carrtzal, Mexico, June 21, 191G, 1:15 a. m.?To commanding officer, )jo Frederico: My troop reached DJo Santo Doming to at 5:30 p. m., 5.r Lr~ EWS, JUNE 27, 1916. ^ New Attack Order< Trevino; Troops Chihuahua City, Mexico.?Amerl vanclng from the American field baa and OJo Caliente, and General Jacin attack them if they do not lmmedfa General Trevlon Bald the Amerla that they received at Carrlzal, as he orders to the letter. In this, he said him, and they Would remain with hlu The Mexican commander said ttl as General Pershing seemed ignoran that outside of five additional prison Americans were annihilated, althoug! General Pershing his wired here prisoners. It was officially announced that here will be hanged, that "not being The seventeen American negroes have been placed in the penitentiary rontrnmnnta frvr romnvlne fkom t?iinvuiv?vw ?V* IVUIVIIU5 VUVU1 IV sf Ul lean authorities. Lom Spillsbury, the Mormon scoi prison. The prisoners were assaulte< were being transferred .from the train tho authorities they are being well tr The troopers brought here are P W. Ward, Jones. Sockes, Marshall Oil Stone. Harris, Lee, and Graham of T of Troop C. According to a statement, said tt made public today by General Trevi know which sido began the firing. S practically all the Americans who loi they advanced to a deep ditch in wh when other Mexicans, getting around tacked them from the flank. ALL VILLA TROOPERS I JOINING MEXICO ARMY Former Generals Under Bandit I Hasten to Ally Themselves With the Carranzistas. El Paso. Texas, June 27.?Villa troops. Villa Generals, and former t cnomies of Villa are flocking to the i Mexican colors. Two troop trains c have arrived in Chihuahua from the tl Laguna district with 2.000 former e Villa soldiers under Generals C? loxlco C CoiltrorJLS mid Cunntn Thnv I s have joined the Carranza troops in r Chihuahua City and received the best I barracks in the state cupito!. and are a cheered every time they drill or ap- a pear on the streets. Another train is r expected in Chihuahua with the command of General Ysabel Robles, an- t other Villa General, who surnenderd r the state of Chihuahua to Consul An- I dres Garcia for the Carranza govern- d ment. Many other minor Villa leaders a are Joining the Carranza troops in t Chihuahua City and are being sent to t the field near Villa Ahumada. This t news was brought to the border by j one of the five men who have been < p at Parrel, but who came out with the s last party of Americans. They were in Chihuahua City when ' the former Villa troops marched from ! f the Mexican Central station to the ; ( barracks. Ho said the demonstration in their honor was as great as when 1 Villa rode into Chihuahua the first ^ Lime, and there were a number of f nuwuu) ui v Ma t liia. iiuui u in niu crowd. ' The return of Villa to take com- 8 mand of his former troops is being ? frequently predicted by his friends, who insist he is not dead, but has been biding in the mountains of Durango. They say Villa will take this opporun- c ity of wreaking his vengeance on the r United States, and that he will be re- J ceived with acclamation by the Car- | 1 ranza Government and the Mexican s people. 11 June 20. Mot C troop under Captain t Boyd. I came under Captain Boyd's h command and marched my troop in rear for Carrizal at 4:15 a. m., reach- I ing open field to southeast of towu at ! 6:30 a. m. j "Captain Boyd sent In a note re- 8 questing permission to pass through the town. This was refused. Stated * we could go to the north, but not 1 east. Captain Boyd said he was going to Ahumada at this time. "He was talking with Carranza com- , mnnrter. General Gomez sent a written message that Captain Boyd could , bring his force In town and have a ' conference. Captain Boyd feared an . ambush. He was under the impression that the Mexicans would run as , soon as we fired. "We formed for attack, his inten- j tiion being to move up to the line of t about 120 Mexicans on the edge of t the town. We formed C Troop on the j left in line with skirmishers, one { platoon of K Troop platoon on ex- r trerae right, echeloned a little to the j rear. f Opened Fire at 300 Yards. "When we were within 300 yards jthe Moxicans opened tire and a f strong one before we fired a shot; then we opened up. They did not f run. To make a long account short, ! r after about an hour's fire in which c both troops had advanced C Troop to \ j position of Mexican machine gun and ] K Troop closing in slightly to the left. | We were very busy on the right, keep- ( Ing off a flank attack. A group of Mexicans left town, went around our rear and led our horses off at a gallop. "About 9 o'clock one platoon of K Troop which was on our right fel' | back. Sergeant said he could not stay there. Both platoons fell brnk about 1,000 yards to the west and than together with Qome men of C ".X v- . 'i W'djs.ktrf - < sd By General [ i Must Move Back . I! lean columns hare been seen ad9 In the direction of San Antonio to Trevino has iBsued orders to ^ tely retreat. Ann won 1H irakt fhn an ma (rftfltmAnf was determined to carry out hia , he had all his subordinates with i In case of a rupture, lat It seemed probable, iuasumch t of the fate of the Boyd column, M ers now being brought here the h it was possible more had escaped, for the names of the dead and the Ir none of the prisoners brought the custom of a civilised country." s captured in the Carrizal battle here. There have been no ararez to be surrenderd to the Amern nt, captured at Carrizal, also is in ei 1 by Mexican civilians as they R i to the penitentiary. According to A cated. fc rivates Pago. Peterson. N. Lloyd, ver, M. Donald. Williams. Oivens, K< roop H, and Howe and Alexander ti > have been signed by Spillsbury, tc ino, neither he nor the negroes ei pillsbury's statement says that tl st their lives were killed when i M Lch Mexicans were stationed and tc to a deep ditch in their rear, at- pi e t\ E HUSHING SUPPLIES TO I THE NATIONAL GUARD a< rr )ozens of Carloads Hurried ^ Forward From Philadelphia w Arsenal for Eastern Camps. e< s Philadelphia, June 27.?Many addl- ** ional workers were hired and two fl' lew thro^-ton auto trucks were pur- A hased to aid In handling the troraeu- 01 lous supply of equipment being rush 'd from the Schuykill to National Junrd camps otf the Atlantic Seaboard itates. Twenty-ono carloads of supdies .including tents, uniforms, shoes, luts, leggins, underwear, and ordin- S ince were shipped from the arsenal u' md twenty-five carloads left the arse- ^ lal. s The sudden increase In the forces of ri he army caught officials of the arselal unawares. Lieut. Col. George H. f4 Jenro?e. in charge of the purchasing ' lepartment of the arsenal, has been iuthorize<l by Secretary of War Baker 0 make all necessary purchases, so ** hat National Guardsmen may be fully iquipped forthwith. ' Ten thousand blankets purchased irrived at the arsenal in more than 1 score of automobile trucks. "It will require ten dnytr yet. for us c>l ully to equip the additional quota of ai guardsmen in tho East," said Lieut. 3ol. Penrose tonight. Orders were placed for 236,000 ^ ilnnkets, 197,000 undershirts, 199,000 Irawors, 150,000 pairs of canvass leg- j ni dna, 25,000 leather legglns, 100,000 lata, 1,000 bedsacks, 5,000 mosquito >ar?, 8,000 cots, and 8,000 yards of ri ihirtlng flannel. The orders amount- 01 id to $1,400,000. f1 ts a Ammunition Is Moved. g Laredo. Texas.?Two million rounds >f ammunition consigned to Carranza nilltary authorities in the interior of Mexico, and recently confiscated by <j( Jni'ted States customs officials, were pi lent by special train to the govern- ^ irnment supply stores at San Antonio. a] c< roop who were there these men icattered. C "I was slightly wounded. Captain 3oyd, a man told me, was killed. Nothing was seen of Lieutenant ^ Vdair after fight started, so men I taw stated. "I hid In a hole 2,000 yards from laid and have one other wounded nan and three men with me. "Morey, captain." Comment by Pershing. In transmitting Captain Morey'a etter General Pershing said: "The three men referred to by 94 Moray are the three men who had iKnvn I ? *1 *- ? IX ,Vv? ?Kio7>ur>0 ill tucir (JUIMSHHHlOn. rhe wounded man was from C Troop hot through the knee. Lieutenant deyer reports that the three men ' vers rather vague as to where they * tad left Captain Morey, but stated hat on the night of the twenty-first ** hey had carried him two miles, that dorey became weak, could not go furher and told them to leave. Meyer J econnoitered 20 miles east of Santa ^ tfaria, but found nothing. Out of ^ craln and forage, horses in bad shape, tad to return." tave been ordered, a shortage for a ^ ew days in almost a certainty. Colonel Stanley received orders to Co Into the open market and buy at narkot prices anything needed. Shoes ? ire needed more than anything else. d te said, but it was stated there was lttle UklLhood of any adequate sup- d >ly being available in lees than ^ hirty days. P ? ^ Germans Repulse Russians. Berlin, via London.?Violent attacks * >n tht Auatro-Oerman forces which tare countered the Russian offensive ^ n Voihynia are being continued. The ^ ear office announced that all the#* ittacks, made repeatedly with strong f< loross had been sMwksi *' Vv*'; ' ' %"*'b ' />'s v ?7 ANSING SENDS NEW IOTE 10 GARRANZA VTE8T NOTE FROM UNITED 8TATE8 18 8HORT BUT POSITIVE IN DEMANDS. IUST RELEASE PRISONERS i Reply to Note From Carranza About Carrlzal Battle President Wilson Demands an Immediate Release of the 17 Prisoners. Washington.?The official text of le note to the Mexican de facto gov-nment. transmitted to Jamee Lynn odgors, special representative of the merlcan government in Mexico City illows: "Mr. Arredondo delivered to this ^vernment the following communicaon: " 'I am directed by my government > Inform Your Excellency, with rofrervce to the Carrizal incident, that le Chief Executivo, through the [exican war department, gave orders > Gen. Jacinto B. Trevino. not to ermit American forces from Genrnl Pershing's oolumn to advance irther South, nor to move either ast or West from the points whore ley are located, and to oppose new icursions of American soldiers into [exican territory. These orders were rought by General Trevino to the Ltention of Goneral Pershing, who nknowledged the receipt of the coralunicatlon relative thereto. On the Ind instant, as your excellency knows a American force moved eastward alto far from its base, notwithstandig the above orders and was engag1 by Mexican troops at Carrizal, tate of Chihuahua. As a result of le encounter several men on both dos were killed and wounded and 17 merlcan soldiers were made prleonrs. "You are hereby Instructed to hand > the Minister of Foreign Relations r tho de facto government the folrwing: " 'The government of the United tates can put no other construction pon the communication handed to le secretary of state of tho United tates on the 24th of June by Mr. Arodondo, under instruction of your overnment, than that it is intended b a formal avowal of deliberately ostile action against the forces of te United States now In Mexico and f tho purpose to aittack them without rovocatlon whenever they move from leir present position in pursuance of to objects for which they were sent lere, notwithstanding the fact that tose objects not only involve no un iendly intention towards the govrnment and people of Mexico, but re on the contrary, intended only to isist that government In protecting self and tho territory and the peole of the United Stales against irretonsible and insurgent bands of rebel larauders. " 'I am instructed, therefore, by my overnment to dt:nand the immediate >leaao of the prisoners taken in tho icounter at Carrizal, together with ny property of the United States iken with them and to inform you tat the government of the United tates expects an early statement from our government as to the course of otion it wishes the government of to United States to understand it has etermined upon and that it also ex[iota that this statement be made trough the usual diplomatic channels ltd not through subrodinate military ommanders." RISIS WILL~FTND~CONGRES8 READY FOR EMERGENCIES ouse and Senate Work to Clear Slate So Mexlcana May Have Undivided Attention. Washington. ? Congress solidly ices the Mexican emergency ready >r any legislative action its leuders eclare which developments may de land. THe house already is planning i crossed appropriations to meet extra ipendltures incurred through mobillitlon, equipment and transportation f the National Quard and to provide iore munitions. Congress has contemplated to add 20,000.000 to army appropriation bill nd an urgent deficiency bill for 1,000,000 is in the course of preparaon. Congress is working hard to disuse of the routine legislative proos&ls before ft. The house is clearig up the special program and apropriatlon bills rapidly, but the Rente is far behind. Legislation to be Imposed of by the upper house heire adjournment includes the government shipping bill, the child labor law. itification of the house amendments > the credit legislation, the immigra on bill and conservation measures. The Senate also ie behind with aproprlations. The pootoffice bill probbly will be passed within one or two ays and there are awaiting conelderaon the agricultural, fortifications, fcplomatlc, sundry civil, pensions, DIs riot ot Columbia and naval appro Nation bills. The house will resume tscuselon of the army and naval ap ropriation bills. The house will rat ure discussion of the army appro Nation measure. Besides this, ft stiC as the Military Academy approprla loo bill to complete. The recontructed naval Mil will be reported y (ha Senate before the end of th? reek.