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j ORDER )MLEASE 15,000 TROO LANSING DISPATCHES NOTE TO CARRANZA President Wilson Summoned Foreign Affairs Committee Heads to White House for Sunday Night Conference on Mexican Situation. NOTE IS RECEIVED FROM DE FACTO GOVERNMENT States That Carrizat Fight Was Direct Result of Soldiers Moving Other wise .Than Towarcis the Border as Ordered by Carranza and Communi cated to General Pershing. 38,000 MILITIAMEN IN EAST GO IN CAMPS New York.-More than 38,000 of the 128,000 National Guards men of the Department of the East, comprising 22 states east of the Mississippi and District of Columbia, were in mobiliza tion camps Sunday night, six days after the call was issued, according to the report forward ed to the War Department by Major General Wood, command. ing the department. Of this number Massachusets contribu ted 8,000 and New Jersey 6,000. Washington.-A demand for the Im mediate release of the Americn1 troop. era taken prisoner at Carrikal coupled with a stern notification. that the Unit ,-r" ,tates expects an Iearly statement of tht urposes of..the Carranza Gov ernment'Wafi QI1f'raphed to Mexico City by Secretary Lansing. The note discloses that the State Departmen't received a communication from the de facto Government stating that the Carrizal fight was the' direct result of orders to attack American soldiers moving otherwise than to wards the border personally issued by General Carranza to General Trevino and by the latter communicated to General Pershing. In reply Secretary Lansing requires that the do facto Government transmit a definite statement "av to the courqe * of action it has determined upon,' through the usual diplomatic channels, 'and not through subordinate military 'officers'." The Mexican communication is con. strued, Secretary Lansing states, "as a formal avowal of deliberately hoe tile action against the forces of the UjnitedI States now in Mexico and of the' purpose to attack without provo cation whenever they move from their present position despite the friendly mission on which they are engaged and which is re-affirmed in the Amer lean rejoinder. White House Conference. General Carranza is required to place himself on record formally and .' the plain intimation lies behind the restrained language of Mr. Lansing's communication that force will be met walh force. Apparently, however, the Washington Governmeait is determin ed that the do facto Government shall not evade responsibility before the * world if war is forced upon the United States. The note and the military situation of the United States were talked over at the White House by the President with Chtairman Stone, of the Senaste * Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member, * ' and Chairman Flood of the House ' Committee on F'oreign Affairs. Rep resentative Cooper, ranking minority - member of the House Committee, was -4 out of the city. After the conference which lasted inore than an hour, Senator Stone ~: said the situation wvas "exceedingly acute." The President had felt it necessary to acquaint Congress wvith the state of affairs and the action '? taken, through the Foreign Affairs Committee. It 'was indicated that he tnight desire to address a joint see slont of the House and Senate in a * day or two, but would not take this ia1 step until the Mexican Govern ~zent had been given ,an opportunity ereply. ,'~ ~' '", ~Warlike Says Stone. 4ePresident told those at the con > ~ tnoe of the note from General Car ~,ipa avowing the attack on Amern. .,Altro9ps at Carrizal, aind of the re Sthat he had directed to be sent. S0nator Stone was very emphatic rs.in regard to the demand ~'4ease *d'the p-isoners, y i(~nhet bhve these men." he said S CARRANZA PRISONERS; OPS TO BORDER order that a clear knowledge of what had happened at Carrizal should be at hand. "But if they are going to attack our men without cause,' he said, "there is only one thing to do. We will never have peace down there until wq use force enough to compel it." There is reason to believe that the military situation may be influencing the AdministrAion's diplomatic course, as well as the desire to make it clear to the world and particularly to the Latin-American Nations that the Unit ed States is being forced into warlike measures by hostility of General Car ranza. The War Department is making every effort to speed up mobilization of the National Guard. A few com panies have been mustered in. Others will take the oath at once. In 48 hours, probably, a substantial force will be en route to the border to back up General Funston's line. Must First Be Ready. It may be four or five days, how ever, before War Department officials would feel safe in withdrawing regu lars from the border patrol to form the cutsting edge of whatever force they may hurl to the support of Gen eral Pershing's column, should aggres sive action be ordered. It seems doubtful that a formal dip lomatic rupture will be forced before ad-equate military precautions are pos-, sible, particularly as lit has been inal cated that quick, drastic actin, is President Wilson's desire should Gen eral Carranza force the. ;die of the army against him. Mr. Wilson's visitors sought light on these queoonjs. Specific figures were not evi-,lable as to the garripons at varlis border towns, the number of.-iuardsmen who have responded to the President's call, or the time that would be required to get the entire force to the border. These details have been left to the War Department and Secretary Baker was not present at the conference. The general situ ation was presented, however, and there is reason to suppose that the For eign Affairs Committeemen opproved the President's course. No Talk of Mediation. One fact as to the conference is significant. There was no discussion of the possibility of mediation. The subject was not mentioned either by the President or his callers, Senator Stone said. This statement came In the face of a formal notification to Eliseo Arre dondo, Mexican ambassador designate, by his government, thMA it approved the principle of mediation as pro posed by. seceral Latin-American coun tries. Mr. Arrendondo expected ea~rly authorization to begin conversa tions with his Latin-American col leagues here, .in tan effort to divert the crisis to peaceful channels. There was no indication tihat any di'plomat had attempted to sound See reitary Lansing in this respect. It is known, however, that he holds that the United States has noth ing 'to mediate since ilts only object is :the protection of its own borders. Hie has forma'lly notified all Latin American diploma'ts that the Washing ton government has no aggresive pur. -pose toward Mexico, but is resolved to free fits citizens along the bor-der of Ithe danger of bandit raids. BRINGING A LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON Paris.--A Madrid dispatch to The Temps quotes The Impericial as re porting that President Wilson wHi re ceive a message from the German Em peror in the same manner as did King Alionso. This statement is included in an interview which the representa itive~s of The Imparcial had with the German naval alttache, von Krohn, who declared that the bringing of let ters of the King of Spain by a German submarine could not affect Spanish neutrality, which 'the Germans respect. 'Dhe Spanish newapapers, the dis patch adds, demand thait the govern mont take measures to prevent a repe tition of the submarine incident. Presents Mediation Offer. WVashington--Ignacio Calderon, min intcr from Bolivia, acting on 'the 'be half of several South and Central American republics, has presented to Secretary Lansing an offer already ac-. eeptedl "in principle" by General Car ranza .tb mediate in the crisis with Mexico. SOME MARYLAND GUARDS HAVE A "YELLOW STREAK." Baltimore..About 140 mem bers of the Maryland National Guard In camp at Laurel fefus ed to take the oath containing tlpe three years reserve clause. Several of ti'em gere banded together and , tr ps - of :yel tied to thoel uaforms. The. MOREY, LEFT TO DIE, WAKES WAY TO U. S. TROOPS AMERICAN CAPTAIN SENDS LET TER TO PERSHING DESCRIB ING CARRIZAL AMBUSH. FIRST 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 loss of blood and thirst, two miles from the scene of the encounter be tween Mexican and American troops at Carrizal, Capt. Lewis Sydney Morey of the Tenth Cavalry has made back to the American lines. General Funston received by tele phone from Mrs. Morey, now at Austin, Tex., the following message which reached her by wireless from the field: "Somewhere in Mexico. Am back on the line with two men, safe. "SYDNEY." That, according to Mrs. Morey, was the manner in which Captain Morey signed all communications to her. A letter fron Captain Morey written while,.hlding in a hole near the scene of .tWe fight at Carrizal, after his men hid been broken and scattered by the Meuican force, was received by General Funston through General Pershing. Letter Tells of Ambush. In that letter Captain Morey had described how, fearing an ambush, the American troopers had advanced in battle formation on the Mexicans who had come out from Carrizal dur ing a parely over permission for the Americans to pass through the town; how the Mexicans had opened fire, and how the remaining Americans had been forced to retreat and scat ter, each for himself. Army officers here hope that the return of Captain Morey will serve to provide the mis sing links in the story of the encount er at Carrizal and determine the fate of each member of the little recon noitering 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 in ferred he was picked up by a de tachment of the rescuing force sent out by General Pershing. He was without food or water in a desert country and It is believed his suffer ings must have been intense. Noth ing to confirm rumors of a clash be tween Pershing's men and the Carran mistas was received by eneral Fun eton. tonight and all was reported quiet along the border. Left to Die in Desert. Captain Morey wrote his letter at 9:15 a. in., June 21. while hiding in a hole about 2,000 yards from the scone of the battle. Captain Morey was wounded and had another wound ed man with him. The three un wounded men were picked up by a detachment under Lieut. Henry A. Moyer, Jr., of the Tenth Cavalry and the letter brought to General Persh ing today. Captain Morey was left to die upon the desert from thirst and his wounds. The men abandoned him at his own orders. The three unwounded men had carried him, according to their stories, to Liout. Meyer from the hole where he had hidden and made their way nearly two miles from the bat tlefield. They were forced to stop and Cap taini Morey, believing himself hopce lessly wounded, ordered them to leave him. They also thought him about to die from loss of blood and thirst and obeyed. Vague About DetaIls. The stories of the rescued men told to Lieut. Meyoer were vague about the details of the fight, according to Gen Pershing's roport to Geni. Funston. Captain Morey's letter told of the joining of Troop C under Captain Charles T. Boyd and Troop K under his own command at Ojo Santo Do mingo, Juno 20, and the advance to gether toward Carrizal June 21. He arrived in an open field a mile from Carrizal at 7:35 in the morning. There they halted and Captain Boyd Bent a courier into Carrizal asking permission of General Felix Gomez to enter the town, saying he was go ing to Villa Ahumada. Gomez re plied that he would not be allowed to enter the town, but might make a 8etour around it. Fearing that they were about to be trapped by the Mexicans which had sallied out from the town during the parely, the American troops deployed in battle formation, mounted and moved forward. The Mexicans then opened fire. Captain Boyd ordered his men to dismount and return the fire, the engagement lasting about an hour. Captain Morey's Letter, Ppilowing is the text of Idoray's New Attack Order Trevino; Troop, Chihuahua City, Mexico.-Amer vancing from the American field ba and Ojo Caliente, and General Jacir attack them If they do not immedia General Trevion said the Americ that they received at Carrisal, as he orders to the letter. In this, he said him, and they would remain with hir The Mexican commander said tt as General Pershing seemed ignorar that outside of five additional prisor Americans were annihilated, althouM General Pershing his wired here prisoners. It was officially announced that here will be hanged, that "not being The seventeen American negroe have been placed in 'the penitentiar) rangements for removing them to J1 Icau authorities. Lem Spillsbury, the Mormon sce prison. The prisoners were assaulte were being transferred from the tral the authorities they are being well t The troopers brought here are I W. Ward, Jones, Sockes, Marshall 01 Stone, Harris, Lee, and Graham of of Troop C. According to a statement, said t made public today by General Trei know which side began the firing. I practically all the Americans who 14 they advanced to a deep ditch in wl when other Mexicans, getting aroun( tacked them from the flank. ALL VILLA TROOPERS JOINING MEXICO ARMY. Former Generals Under Bandit Hasten to Ally Themselves With the Carranzistas. El Paso, Texas, June 27.-Villa troops, Villa Generals, and former enemies of Villa are flocking to the Mexican colors. Two troop trains have arrived in Chihuahua from the Laguna district with 2,000 former Villa soldiers under Generals Calexico Contreras and Canuto Reyes. They have joined the Carranza troops in Chihuahua City and received the best barracks in the state capital, and are cheered every time they drill or ap pear on the streets. Another train is expected In Chihuahua with the com mand of General Ysabel Robles, an other Vdlla General, who surrenderd the state of Chihuahua to Consul An dres Gr -cia for the Carranza govern ment. ALny other minor Villa leaders are jot; ng the Carranza troops in Chihuah.a City and are being sent to the field near Villa Ahumada. This news was brought to the border by one of the five men who have been at Parrel, but who came out with the last party of Americans. They were in Chihuahua City when the former Villa troops marched from the Mexican Central station to the barracks. He said the demonstration in their honor was as great as when Villa rode into Chihuahua the first time, and there were a number of shouts of "Viva Villa!l" heard in the crowd. The return of Villa to take com mand of his former troops is being frequently predicted by his friends, whosinsist he is not dead, but has been hiding in the mountains of Durango. They say Villa will take this opporun ity of wreaking his vengeance on the United States. and that he will be re ceived with acclamation by the Car ranza Government and the Mexican people. June 20. Met C troop under Captain Boyd. I came under Captain Boyd's command and marched my troop in rear for Carrizal at 4:15 a. in., reach ing open field to southeast of town at 6:30 a. m. "Captain Boyd Bent in a note re questing permission to pass through the town. This was refused. Stated we could go to the north, but not east. Captain Boyd said he was go ing to Ahumada at this time. "He was talking with Carranza coin mandler. General Gomez sent a writ ten message that Captain Boyd could bring his force in town and have a conference. Captain Boyd feared an ambush. He was under the impres sion that the Mexicans would run as soon as we fired. "We formed for attack, his inten tion being to move up to 'the line of about 120 Mexicanis on the edge of the town. We formedl C Troop on the left In line with skirmishere, one platoon of K Troop platoon on ex treme right, echeloned a little to the rear. Opened Fire at 800 Yards. "When we were within 300 yards the Mexicans opened fire and a strong one before we fired a shot; then we opened up. They did not run. ,To make a long account short, after about an hour's fire In whrich both troops had advanced C Troop to 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 6us.t iketsfel, ed By Geneai Must Move Back ican columns have been seen ad e in the direction of San Antonio ito Trevino has issued orders to ,tely retreat. ans would get the same treatment was determined to carry out his he had all his subordinates with : dn case of a rupture. hat it seemed probable, inasumch ,t of the fate of the Boyd column, era now being brought here the h it was possible more had escaped. for the names of the dead and the none of the prisoners brought the custom of a civilized country." s captured in the Carrizal battle here. There have been no ar arez to be surrenderd to the Amer ut, captured at Carrizal, also is in d by Mexican civilians as they ai to the penitentiary. According to reated. 'rivates Page, Peterson, N. Lloyd, Iver, M. Donald, Williams, Givens, 'roop H, and Howe and Alexander o have been signed by Spillsbury, ino, neither he nor the negroes ;pillsbury's statement says that wt their lives were killed when dch Mexicans were stationed and I to a deep ditch in their rear, at. RUSHING SUPPLIES TO THE NATIONAL GUARD Dozens of Carloads Hurried Forward From Philadelphia Arsenal for Eastern Camps. Philadelphia, June 27.-Many addi. tional workers were hired and two new three-ton auto trucks were pur "hased to aid in handling the tremen IOus supply of equipment being rush 3d from the Schuykill to National Juard camps of the Atlantic Seaboard states. Twenty-one carloads of sup. plies ,including tents, uniforms, shoes, hats, leggins, underwear, and ordin ance were shipped from the arsenal and twenty-five carloads left the arse nal. The sudden increase in the forces of the army caught officials of the arse nal unawares. Lieut. Col. George H. Penrose, in charge of the purchasing department of the arsenal, has been authorized by Secretary of War Baker to make all necessary purchases, so that National Guardsmen may be fully equipped forthwith. Ten thousand blankets purchased arrived at the arsenal in more than a score of automobile trucks. "It will require ten days yet for us fully to equip the additional quota of guardsmen in the East," said Lieut. Col. Penrose tonight. Orders were placed for 236,000 blankets, 197,000 undershirts, 199,000 drawers, 160,000 pairs of canvass leg gins, 25,000 leather leggins, 100,000 hats, 1,000 bedsacks, 6,000 mosquIto bars 8,000 cots, and' 8,000 yards of shirting flannel. The orders amount ed to $1,400,000, Ammunition Is Moved. Laredo, Texas.-Two million rounds of ammunition consigned to Carranza military authorities in the interior of Mexico, amnd recently confiscated by United States customs officials, were sent by special .train to the govern ernent supply stores at San Antonio. troop who were there these men scattered. "I was slightly wounded. Captain Boyd, a man told me, was killed. Nothing was seen of Lieutenant Adair after .fight started, so men I saw stated. "I hid in a hole 2,000 yards from field and have one other wounded man and three men ~with me. "Morey, captain." Comment by Pershing. In transmitting Captain Morey's letter General Pershing said: "The three men referredl to by Mercy are the three men who had ab~ove message in thelir possession. Tho wounded man was from C Troop shot through the knee. Lieutenant Meyer reports that the three men were rather yague as to where they had left Captain Morey, but stated that on the night of the twenty-first they had carried him two miles, that Morey became weak, could not go fur ther and told them to leave. Meyer reconnoitered 20 miles east of Santa Maria, but found nothing. Out of grain and forage, horses in bad shape, had to return," have been ordered, a shortage for a few days is almost a certainty. Colonel Stanley received orders to go into the open market and buy at market prices anything needed, Shoes are needled more than anything else. he said, but it was stated there was little liklihood of any adequate sup ply binlg available in -lees than thirty days. Germans Re~pulse Russian. Berlin,,via L'ondon.-Viobent attacks n the Austr'o-Glerman do60 Wich aT9 i t0M4 6hinssian Offensive LANSING SENDS NEW NOTE TO CARRANZA LATEST NOTE FROM UNITED STATES 18 SHORT BUT POS TIVE IN DEMANDS. MUST RELEASE PRIS0tv tS In reply to Note From Carranza About Carrlzal Battle President Wilson De. mands an Immediate Release of the 17 Prisoners. Washington.-The official text of the note to the Mexican de facto gov ernment, transmitted to James Lynn Rodgers, special representative of the American government in Mexico City follows: "Mr. Arredondo delivered to this government the follQwing communica tion: "'. am directed by my government to inform Your Excellency, with ref erence to the Carrizal incident, that 'the Chief Executive, through the Mexican war department, gave orders to Gen. Jacinto B. Trevino, not to permit American forces from Gen eral Pershing's column to advance further South, nor to move either East or West from the points where. they 'Are located, and to oppose new incursions of American soldiers Into Mexican territory. These orders were brought by General Trevino to the: attention of General Pershing, who. acknowledged the receipt of the com-. munication relative thereto. On the 22nd Instant, as your excellency knows. an American force moved eastward quite far from its base, notwithstand ing the above orders and was engag ed by Mexican troops at Carrizal,. State of Chihuahua. As a result of' the encounter several men on both, sides were killed and wounded and 17 American soldiers were made prison ers. "You are hereby instructed to hand to the Minister of Foreign Relations. of the de facto government the fol.. lowing: "'The government of the United. States can put no other construction, upon the communication handed to. the secretary of state of the United. States on the 24th of June by Mr. Ar redondo, under instru'tion of yioifr government, than that it is intended. as a formal avowal of deliberately hostile action against the forces of the United States now in Mexico and. of the purpose to attack them without provocation whenever they move from. their present position in pursuance of the objects for which they were sent. -there, notwithstanding the fact that. those objects not only involve no un friendly intention ernment and peol are on the contrar. assist that govern itself and the ter. pie of the United States against Irre sponsible and insurgent bands of rebel, marauders. "'I am instructed, -therefore, by my government to demand the immediate release of the prisoners taken in the encounter at Carrizal, together with any property of the United States Itaken with them and to inform you that the government of the United States expedts an early statement froml your government as to the cour-se of action it wishes the government of the United States to understand it has. determincd upon and that it also ex.. pects that this statement be made through the usual diplomatic channels. and not through subrodinate military commanders." CRISIS WILL FIND CONGRESS READY FOR EMERGENCIES. House and Senate Work to Clear Slate So Mexicans May Have Undivided Attention. Washington. -- Congress solidly faces the Mexican emergency ready - for any legislaative action its leaders declare which developments may de ma-nd. T~le house already is planning increased appropriations to meet extra expenditures incurred through mobili-. zation, equi'pment and transportation of 'the National Guard and 'to provide. more munitions. Congress has contemplatedl to add $20,000,000 to ar-my appr-opriation bill and an .urgent deficiency bill for 6,000,000 is in the course of prepara tion. Congres is working hard to dis5 pose of the routine legislatIve pro posals before it. The house 18 clear lng up the special program and ap propriation bills rapidly, but the sen ate is far behind. Legislation to be dioposed of by the upper house be-. fore adjournment includes the govern-. ment shipping 'bil, .the child labor law, watifieation of the house apnendments to the credit legisio,tion, the immigra-. tion bill and conservation measures. The Senate also ts behind with ap iropriations. The poetofffee bill prob ,bly will be passed within one or two days and there are'awaitung considera tion the agricultural, for-tifleations, diplomatic, sundr y c-n I. -,m r )1 trict of Ooluaf'm; i. icc ,y disousesion of.tp m miy ii os In . propriation bills. The. h'.aus wml re sure discusnion Q$ ihrmny appr-o Drait hnina trn this, t nm