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WILSON OH TO RELEASE 15,000 TRO o 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 Carrlzal Fight Was Direct Result of Soldiers Moving Other wise Than Towards the Border as Ordered by Carranza and Communi cated to General Pershing. 38,000 MILITIAMEN IN iir GO IN CAMPS -More than 38,000 0f,g 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 5,000. "Washington. A demand for the im mediate release of the American troop ers taken prisoner at Carrizal coupled with a stern notification that the Unit ed States expects an early statement of the purposes of the Carranza Gov ernment was telegraphed to Mexico City by Secretary Lansing. The note discloses that the State Department received a communication from the de facto Government stating that the Carrlzal 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 de facto Government transmit a definite statement "as to the course of action it has determined upon," through the usual diplomatic channels, "and not through subordinate military officers'." The Mexican communication is con Etrued, Secretary Lansing states, "as a formal avowal of deliberately hos tile action against the forces of the United 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 ican 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 with force. Apparently, however, the Washington Government is determin ed that the de 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 Chairman Stone, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member, and Chairman Flood of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rep resentative Cooper, ranking minority member of the House Committee, was out of the city. After the conference which lasted 1? 'iua.il au uuui, ociiatui oluiic eaid the situation was "exceedingly acute." The President had felt it necessary to acquaint Congress with the state of affairs and the action taken, through the Foreign Affairs Committee. It was indicated that he might desire to address a Joint ses sion of the House and Senate in a day or two, but would not take this final step until the Mexican Govern ment had been given an opportunity to reply. Warlike Says Stone. The President told those at the con ference of the note from General Car ranza avowing the attack on Ameri can troops at Carrizal, and of the re ply that he had directed to be sent. Senator Stone was very emphatic . afterwards, in regard to the demand for release of the p-isoners. "We must have those men," he said (solemnly. The Senator made no effort to hide his own belief that war virtually is finnl rpport from General RS CARRANZA PRISONERS: OPSTD 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 we use force enough to compel it" There is reason to believe that the military situation may be influencing the Administration'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 la 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 cutting 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 adequate military precautions are pos sible, particularly as it has been indi cated that quick, drastic action, is President Wilson's desire should Gen eral Carranza force the use of the army against him. Mr. Wilson's visitors sought light on these questions. Specific figures were not available as to the garrisons at various border towns, the number of guardsmen 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, that it approved the principle of mediation as pro posed by seceral Latin-American countries. Mr. Arrendondo expected early authorization to begin conversa tions with his Latin-American col leagues nere, in an effort to divert the crisis to peaceful channels. There was no indication that any diplomat had attempted to eound Sec retary Lansing in this respect. It is known, however, that he holds that the United States has noth ing to mediate since its only object Is the protection of Its own borders. He has formally notified all Latin American diplomats that the Washing ton government has no aggresive pur pose toward Mexico, but Js resolved to free its citizens along the border of the danger of bandit raids. BRINGING A LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON Paris. A Madrid dispatch to The Temps quotes The Imparcial as re porting that President Wilson will re ceive a message from the German Em peror in the same manner as. did King Alfonso. This statement is included in an interview which Uhe representa tives of The Imparcial had with the German naval attache, 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. The Spanish newspapers, the dis patch adds, demand that the govern ment take measures to prevent a repe tition of the submarine incident. Pressnts Mediation Offer. Washington Ignacio Calderon, min ister from Bolivia, acting on the be half of several South and Central American republics, has presented to Secretary Lansing an offer already ac cepted "in principle" by General Car- I ranza to mediate in the crisis with Mexico. SOME MARYLAND GUARDS HAVE A "YELLOW STREAK." Baltimore. About 140 mem bers cf the Maryland National Guard in camp at Laurel refus ed to take the oath containing the three years reserve clause. Several of them were banded together and strips of yellow tied to their uniforms. They were' marched through the com pany street, while their com rades yelled "see the yellow streak in them !" i IRE!, LEFT TO DIE, WAKES ir TO 0. 5. 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 from Captain Morey written while hiding in a hole near the scene of the fight at Carrizal, after his men had been broken and scattered by the Mexican 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 zlstas was received by General Fun ston tonight and all was reported quiet along the border. Left to Die In Desert. Captain Morey wrote his letter . at 9:15 a. m., June 21, while hiding In a hole about 2,000 yards from the scene 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. Meyer, 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 Lieut. 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 tain Morey, believing himself hope, 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. Meyer were vague about the details of the fight, according to Gen- Pershing's report to Gen. 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, June 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 sent a courier into Carrizal asfcing 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 detour 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 troop3 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. Following is the text of Moray's letter: 'Carrizal. Mexico, June 21, 1916, :15 a. m. To commanding officer, Ojo Frederico: My troop reached - o-irfr, Dqtt ingt o at 5:30 p. m., New Attack Ordered By General Trevino; Troops Must Move Back . Chihuahua City, Mexico. American columns have been Been ad vancing from the American field base in the direction of San Antonio and Ojo Caliente, and General Jacinto Trevino has issued orders to attack them if they do not immediately retreat. General Trevion said the Americans would get the same treatment that they received at Carrlzal, as he was determined to carry out his orders to the letter. In this, he said, he had all his subordinates with him, and they would remain with him In case of a rupture. The Mexican commander said tthat it seemed probable, inasumch as General Pershing seemed ignorant of the fate of the Boyd column, that outside of five additional prisoners now being brought here the Americans were annihilated, although it was possible more had escaped. General Pershing his wired here for the names of the dead and the prisoners. It was officially announced that none of the prisoners brought here will be hanged, that "not being the custom of a civilized country." The seventeen American negroes captured in the Carrizal battle have been placed in the penitentiary here. There have been no ar rangements for removing them to Juarez to be surrenderd to the Amer ican authorities. Lem Spillsbury, the Mormon scout, captured at Carrizal, also is in prison. The prisoners were assaulted by Mexican civilians as they were being transferred from the train to the penitentiary. According to the authorities they are being well treated. The troopers brought here are Privates Page, Peterson, N. Lloyd, W. Ward, Jones, Sockes, Marshall Oliver, M. Donald, Williams, Givens, Stone, Harris, Lee, and Graham of Troop H, and Howe and Alexander of Troop C. According to a statement, said to have been signed by Spillsbury, made public today by General Trevino, neither he nor the negroes knew which side began the firing. Spillsbury's statement says that practically all the Americans who lost their lives were killed when they advanced to a deep ditch in which Mexicans were stationed and when other Mexicans, getting around to a deep ditch in their rear, at 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 Villa General, who surrenderd the state of Chihuahua to Consul An dres Garcia for the Carranza govern ment. Many other minor Villa leaders are joining the Carranza troops in Chihuahua 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!" heard in the crowd. The return of Villa to take com mand of his former troops is being frequently predicted by his friends, who insist 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 Carrlzal at 4:15 a. m., reach ing open field to southeast of town at 6: JO a. m. "Captain Boyd sent 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 com mander. 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 Mexicans on the edge of the town. We formed C Troop on the left in line with skirmishers, one platoon of K Troop platoon on ex treme right, echeloned a little to the rear. Opened Fire at 300 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 which 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 our right fell back. Sergeant said he could not stay there. Both platoons fell back about 1,000 yards to the west and then together with some men of C 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 chased to aid in handling the tremen dous supply of equipment being rush ed from the Schuykill to National Guard 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 mdre 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, 150,000 pairs of canvass leg gins, 25,000 leather leggins, 100,000 hats, 1,000 bedsacks, 5,000 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, and recently confiscated by United States customs officials, were sent by special train to the govern ernment 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 Btated. "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 referred to by Morey are the three men who had above message in their possession. The wounded man was from C Troop shot through the knee. Lieutenant Meyer reports that the three men were rather vague 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 needed more than anything else, hesaid, but it was stated there was little liklihood of any adequate sup ply being available in less tan thirty days. Germans FUputse Russians. Berlin, via London. Violent attacks on the Austro-German forcee which have countered th Russian offensive in Volhynia are being continued. The war office announced that all these attacks, made repeatedly with strong forces had beejJ. reimlsad. STONE TO SPEAK TO EDITORS Will Make Principal Address at Meet. Ing of Press Association at Dur ham July 12th-13th. ' Durham. Secretary J. B. Sherrill, of the North Carolina Press Associa tion, in a communication to Secretary Alexis J. Colman of the Durham cham ber of commerce, ofCiclaily announces that Melville E. Stone, general mana ger of the Associated Press, has ac cepted the invitation to address the North Carolina editors, in annual meet ing here July 12-13. Efforts are under way to obtain another distinguished speaker for the state meet. Editor Roland F. Beasley, of The Monroe Journal, will be the orator from the ranks of the quilldrivers. Editor Isaac London, of The Siler City Grit, has signified his inability to be present and peak in that capacity. Editor Edward E. Britton, of The News and Observer, will officiate as historian. The Durham chamber of commerce and allied organizations have initiated extensive plans for the entertainment of the editors. President James H. Southgate, of the chamber of con merce, has appointed a committee of nine on entertainment; namely, R. O. Everett, chairman; Claiborne Cartrt, It. H. Sykes, R. L. Lindsey, S. C. Chambers, N. E. Green, E. I. Bugg, G. V. Hundley and J. M. Lipscombe. Vis its to the Durham tobacco factories and Durham Hosiery Mills are In cluded in the tentative program. Vance Statue Unveiled. Washington. More than 200 North Carolinians attended the exercises held in Statuary Hall and In the Unit ed States senate when a handsome bronze memorial to the late Zebulon Baird Vance was unveiled and present ed to the United States. Governor Locke Craig tendered the gift and Vice President Marshall received it. Sen ators Overman of North Carolina, Lodge of Massachusetts and Smith of Georgia made addresses of tribute to Vance and the state whence he came. The unveiling occurred promptly at 10:30 o'clock in Statuary Hall, where Mrs. Vance, the widow, MaJ. Z. BJ Vance, Jr., and J. H. Martin, a step son, and the large group of Tar Heels sat at the feet of the heroic figure in bronze. Judge W. A. Hoke of the North Carolina Supreme Court bench presided and presented Right Rever end Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern North Car olina, who made the invocation. The great granddaughter of Vance, little Miss Dorothy Espey Pillow pulled the "flags which hung over the statue. On behalf of the commission ap pointed by the state legislature to se cure the statue and arrange for its. presentation to the nation. Clement Manley of Winston-Salem made the formal tender to the state, recounting the work of the commission. Durham County Fair. Durham. City aldermen have an nounced the appropriation of $10,000 to the Durham County Agricultural Society, to be used in establishing fair grounds in Durham. At the meeting of county commissioners the first. Monday in July, a similar appropria tion will be asked from that body.. Citizens have subscribed $10,000, mak ing a total of $30,000 for the fair grounds. Pay Tuition By Work. Chapel Hill. The democracy of the? summer school is clearly brought out. by the fact that between 60 and 70 young ladles act as waitresses in the University dining hall, thus earning their board for the entire six weeks About 25 boys also find similar employ ment there. Spencer Plans Big Day. Spencer. Plans were started at a. meeting of the Central Labor Day Committee for the biggest Labor Day celebration ever witnessed In Spencer. The date this year falls on Septem ber 4, and every effort will be put forth to make this a red letter day in. industrial circles in North Carolina. Plan Hydro-Electric Plant. Boone. David R. Shearer, electric engineer for the Boone Fork Lumber Company, is making plans for a hydro electric plant at Boone's Fork Falls.. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Charlotte won over Winston-Salem in the contest for the meeting of the North Carolina Veterinary Association, which closed Its fifteenth annual con vention at Wrightsville Beach. C. Vance Hlnkte, who is a large dealer In horses at Statesville, called at the War Department in Washing ton for the purpose of offering to the government part of the horses and mules they are trying to get for use in Mexico, should it become necessary for invasion. The annual convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association in session at Wrightsville Beach came to a close with the big illuminated parade on boardwalk from the Oceanic Hotel to Lumina. The convention was big gest and most profitable ever held at this resort. There were a total of 1,010 delegates in attendance coming from G3 counties. Much good has re sulted from the convention it is agreed on all sides, and it is believed it will mean the early co'.istructlon of many new Improved roads in North Carolina.
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