New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1916, Page 1

NEW BRITAIN HERALD RICE THREE CENTS. ESTABL?S HED NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916 -TWELVE PAGES. - VILLA BANDITS, 500 STRONG, INVADE U. S. AT OLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO—-ARE BEATEN OFF BY CAVALRY TROOPS AFTER FIRING TOW Six Soldiers and Nine Civilians Killed While Outlaws Hold High Carnival and Butcher Residents as They Flee Ter Stricken from Buildings Into Street---Women and Children Cower in Houses While Frenzied Mob Howls Out- side--General Slocum Has Revolver Shot from Hand While Leading Cavalry Against Attacking Force. President Wilson Directs Secretary of War Baker to Do Everything Possible to Afford —Protection for Americans Who Are in Danger in Bandit Chief’s Zone of Anarchy. March 9.—Flirst Mexican raid on Colum- at the President Wilson with re- |to do everything the Americans. Situation ry At the state department it was said | that the situation was “‘very {but that no announcement of action could be taken would be an- nounced until all official investigation was concluded. Report From Funston, . . " General Funston’s report sent from Is Carranza Capable? | Fort Sam Houston; Tex., follows: While the policy of the administra- | “Colonel Slocum, 13th Cavalry at tion so far has been to look to the |Columbus, New Mexico, reports camp Carranza forces to deal with the |attacked at 4:30 this morning by bandits, some officials declared today force of Mexicans from across border. that it was a grave question whether |Attack repulsed at time of reporting, such a raid as that on Columbus w: 45 a. m. Mexicans were then re- 1ot sufficient evidence of the inability |tiring toward border to southeast. of the Carranza government to deal |He has sent mounted troops in pur- with the situation to warrant sending |suit. Several buildings burned in town American troops over the line. of Columbus. So far as known at time New Agitation in Congress. | ot report loss three men killed, four . starte a new aglation in |70unded. Number of civilians killed congress, where those who have op- [j2 foWn not known. MNumber dead rosed the administration’s Mexican | “F7A7 OIS W ng Srosnd town pelicy openly charged that the attack |° kY s it was proof of their repeated declara- T e General tions that the Carranza government | Washington, possible to protect ports of the bus, M., White having Newton D. the Officials admitted were received House while was his first conference secretary that the put a very serious aspect on the Bake new | of war 1aid Mexican situation, Paid cavalry was in pursuit of the banadits was impotent to deal with the situa- f‘n‘;‘:x’:’e‘):;’"“";“’fi";}“I”‘fnf":]‘l‘f:“:"‘:-lw . tion and a fulfillment of their predic- | MPUmber of i tions that another outrage like the |FTOWR at that time. i Rl e An unofiicial report received €cen si massacre, in £ b 5 e e : transmitted to the Carranza em- teen or more Americans were ki x 1ed |} ssy, said the Thirteenth Cavalry Ly, Villa bandits when they held Up & 3,4 (rogsed the border in pursuit. | “train, was only a question of time % There were indications early today Villa in Personal Command. that the Columbus massacre undoubt- | Information that Francisco Villa edly would be the signal for another [and his chief lieutenant, Pablo Lopez, 3 senate, where the |were in personal command of the raid cpponents of the administration’s |was given Colonel Slocum by a Mexi- Mexican policy have been most active. |can rancher captured by the bandits Great Concern at White House, | last Sunday and who escaped during At the White House the report of |the fighting. He told of the hanging the massacre was received with evi- !cf the American ranchers, McKinney, dences of the greatest concern. | Corbett and O’Neil and declared that Officials most familiar with the presi- (a fourth American, whose name he dent’ Mexican policy were silent but did not know, had been hanged at they indicated that the raid had |the same time. The Mexican infor- prought the situation to a critical | mant said Villa attacked with from point, where it might be difficult to | 800 to 1,000 men and a machine gun un- here and outbreak in the ders Americans and Consigns Their Remains to the Flames. Columbus, N. M., March 9—Arthur by ctand by the policy of non-interfer- | platoon. ‘ence. Personal papers of Francisco Villa After the president and Mr. Bakar |were contained in a portmanteau Lad discussed the.reports briefly, the |found by a United States trooper just Jresident decided that the new secre- | west of the American camp. tary of war should take office at once. | R 1y signed Mr. Baker's commission £nd the new secretary went to his new VILLA BURNS BODIES wffice to be sworn in. : One of the probable cou most discussed in official circles was to send | Mexican Butcher Captures and Mur- American troops over the line to | clean out the bandits. It was pointed out that such action could be taken with a declaration that there was no intention to impair the sovereignty of Mexico, or purpose of occupation of | McKinney, foreman of the Palomas territory, but simply to deal With a |, unon. Willlam Corbett, and S situation menacing to the Amerlcan | o 1 L \', N s Vorder, over which tthe Carranza gov- S RIBEEC illa Tuesday, ‘ernment evidently had no control, were hanged and their bodies burned, There is some conflict of opinion re- | according to information received garding the authority of "he = Py airs A frteeirs Gt ,artment to send troops into a foreign _ ; Rt et e eonsent of con- | When the bandits raided the cattle contend that all American troopers | herd of the Bosques Grandes ranch. gress. Those who doubt the authority | J. J. Moore, a merchant on a ranch may do without further authority | one mile west, was killed. would be to repel Mexican marauders T e by fire, bile with an El Paso license, name Others, unknown, was killed and his body burned. however, contend that the | sonstitution vests the president with authority to repel invasion, and that | suthority, they say, includes the power to send troops over the line. | They point out that in 1877 Secre- | Columbus, N. M, March 9. tary McCrary of the war department | l.opez, second in command to irstructed General Ord, commanding | Was killed. n the border, to notify the Mexican WOMA;{—]-)fi—OFflGRIEF VILLA’S AID KILLED, Pablo Villa the ot ‘wuthorities that if they were unable lo suppress disorders which menaced the American side, the United would undertake the work, ev come caused the occasional ' Saddened by Death of Mother, Mrs. (rossing of the line by American | ) ) froor ! Anna Louise Avery of Winsted Suc- 4 Further precedents for sending | ..o o Hor Sorrow. troops into Mexico to pursue the ban- | dits are found in the state depart- Winsted, March 9— Mr: Anna ment archives. They are found in the |y ,;ize Avery, aged 50, wife of John history of horder disturbances in 1875 and 1882. i Avery, dled today from cerebral Bandits Will Be Punished: | hemorrhage brought on, it is thought Secretary Baker transmitted to | DY excessive grief over the death of President Wilson reports about the |her mother, Mrs. Anna L Mills, aged attack on Columbus, as quickly as |88, who died at six o'clock vester they were received at the war depart- | day morning. ment. It was said at the Whit Mrs. Ave hour House that vigorous steps would be ;later and died at six o'clock ken to punish the bandits. The ' morning. Mrs. Mills had lived President directed Secretary Baker her daughter, in Perkins street. this witi was stricken an what | 1 FIFTEEN DEAD IN VILLA RAID | M., March 9.— H Nine civilians and six United States | | troopers were the known dead || early in the day. | THE DEAD. A. L. Ritchie, hotel proprictor. Walton Walker, United States customs rider. W. R. Walker, Hotel. Milton James. Mrs. Milton James. J. S. Dean. C. C. Miller, druggist. Unidentified chauffeur J. J. Moore, merchant. AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED. Frank Kendvall, Troop K. Sergeant Marg chine gun Troop. Corporal Paul Simon. Sergeant John Nievergelt, band. Corporal Harry Wiswall, T Private Fred A. Griffen, Tr THIZ WOUNDED. Jesse P, Tayler Troop F. Thomas Butler, Troop . Theodore Kalzorke, Troop Michael Barmazel, machine gun Troop. John Yarbrough, Troop K. James Venner, Troop M. John Keogh, Troop G. Columbus, N. guest Central horseshoer, A. Dobbs, ma- Lieut, C. C. Benson, Troop G. P-GERMAN PACT BEFORE WAR OPENED Berlin® Asserts Tokio Govermment Wished for Understanding in Re- gard to German Protectorate. Berlin, March 9, by Wireless to Say- ville.—"“A semi-official statement has been issued here,” says the Over: News Agency, “dealing with rumors recently circulated to the Japanese government in the last few years before the war suggested rapproachment, and a short time be- fore the war began even asked for a friendly understanding in regard to Kiao-Chow (The German protectorate taken by the Japanese early in the war). These reports state that the German government declined, “These rumors are absolutely with- out foundation. The Japanese gov- ernment never made such advances. During the critical time before the rupture the Japanese cabinet, then in power, of which Baron Kato was for- eign minister, refused to meet Ger- man wishes for maintaining peace in the far t. Japan declined. in fact, to enter into any conversations, and meanwhile Baron Kato resigned,” is the Japanese statement. AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS 'TO AID OF TURKEY Two Dreadnoughts Will Be Sent Through Dardanclles Which Has Been Swept Clear of Mines. Rome, March 9 Paris, March 9 the most power nought matian m., m.—Two of stria’s dread- ared in a Dal- port, the Tribuna says, with of the former German vessels Goeben and Breslau, and forcing the allies’ blockade of the Adriatic, in order to reach the Dardanelles and bring as- stance to Turkey in the Black Sea, as the situation of the latter srowing desperate, owing to Ru naval supremacy in those wate The floating mines which obstruct- ed the Dardanelles, the newspaper adds have been swept up by the Turks and the Germans in order to clear a way for the Austrian battle- ships which expected. an are 800 BANDITS SEEN, Douglas, Ariz, March 9.-—Eight hundred Mexican bandits passed Mim- bres, N. M., the fi Columbus, AL, early today and were headed west toward Hachita, N. M., according to a me: received here tody from fthe dispatcher of the 1 Paso and Southwestern railvoad at mimbres, the effect that | to the German government a political | via | the intention of repeating the exploit | station west of TATEST PHOT WIS S S NIEA THEFT OF MONEY ORDERS ‘ Foreman in Bridgeport Arms Coni- pany Arrested on Serious Charge | and Taken to Hartford for Av- raignment. Bridgeport, March 9—James | Crawford, foreman in a local factory, who was arrested last | charged with the theft of pos | 2y orders at New Rochelle, | taken to Hartford today |a federal officer for arraignment be- | fore the United States cammission, er there. Crawford is accused of having stolen five money order blanks from a sub-station in Rochelle in April, 1914, and of ting them in | Bridgeport, Waterbury, New Danbury and New London. till- Haven, Withdraws Resolution Warning Americans Off Armed Ships. Washington, March 9—Sen. McCumber, republican, of Dakota, today withdrew his re tion to warn American citizens off armed ships, stating he thousght that | Americans had been effectively warn- tor orth olu- lution might negotiations. embarrass diplomatic FREIGHT SPACE TAKEN. Government Room on Big Liners. | New York, March 9.—Officials of | the White Star line conceded today that the freight space in their trans- | Atlantic steamships had been { mandeered by the British zovernment | for the accommodation of munitions |and grain shipments. Alterations on one of the big White Star liners will provide room for estimated addition of one thousand British Hartford, M and vic cold tonight. and warmer. and cashing them, in ; | evitable, | the ed and that the pendency of his reso- Commandeers | oo com- | | hee: | murder GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON PORTUGAL Semi-Official ~ News Agency Reports Action by Berlin--Portuguese Make Preparations Against Invas Berlin, March 9, Sayville—Germany on Portugal, according to nouncement by the Overseas News Agency by wirele has declar today. London, March 9, 11:14 a. German residents in Oporto throughout Portugal have been ed by their consul to proceed immediately, according to = ch to the Exchange Telegraph Co., from Lisbon. It is supposed, the pondent, that the diplomats leave this week, as a ruptur tween Germany and Portugal sidered inevitable. m.— and ad- says corres will be- con- March Germar Paris, ture with the Portuguese A rup- rded by government as it says a Lisbon despatch fo Matin. Special protective meus- accordingly have been taken the coast and at the ent NCe agus againg submarines ure: along of the ghthot main dark. have been ordered to re- SHOOTING: JUSTIFIED Bridge- port Negro Who Defended Himself Phelan Exonerates When Portuguese Reached for Gun, That justified in #m he killed Bridgeport, March 9. Marshaii was Pedro Dias Monteria, last Saturday night, is tne finding of Coroner John J. Phelan, who nounced the result of his inquest to- day. Marshall, 1t between attempting to quell two fellow hoarder: me the vietim of Monteria tack and he when Monteria reached for pocket as if to draw a raigned in without bail, cd Monteria Marshall is American shot, his hip pistol Ul will 0 city e Saturday He vith was a Portuguesc an negro The | Joseph | shooting , fro Villa eling the S and the railroad station. The the | office, an- | agent of the ern raiiroad, were in the mic L soldiers Shrieking Battle Yells, Mexicans Rush 1 Townin Overwhelming Numbers But W er Before Machine Guns-- ported to Have Crossed Border in Pur: Troopers Columbus, N. M., March 9.—Five hundred Villa A and hotels. large dits attacked this point at 4:30. this morning, killed a ber of civilians, men and women, and had possession the town for an hour and a half. troops of the Thirteenth Caalry, they o’clock leaving part of the town in flames. Dead Bodies Dot Streets. number bodies dotted streets where they had been posted pich off Americans as they emerged pell-mell out of dwell There appearcd to be no wounded. Sew guests were burned to death in the Central Hotel, w was one of the first buildings fired by Villa’s men. Driven off by f¢ retreated a Mexicans were killed. Mexican bandits standing outside the flaming b ing shot down A. L. Ritchie, proprietor of the hotel, W. R. Walker, a guest, as they attempted a dash ou the door. Both were dead when picked up later. C. C. Miller, owner of a drug store, was shot as tried to enter the door of the Hoover Hotel. Women and Children Cower in Hotel. The Hoover Hotel, an adobe structure, score of cowering women and children, who remained the rooms while a howling mob of bandits surged thrd the surrounding streets. protectsd They first attacked the camp of the Thirteenth Ca ry and a number of American soldiers were wounded. Some of the cavalry horses were ridden off the bandits as they fled back toward Mexico light. Mr. and Mrs. Milton James and J. S. hant, were later added to the list of Americans killed! killed after d Dean, Villa Dupes American Authorities. The attack was a conipiete surprise, Villa deceiy m here. all the authorities by dispatching a telegram to Hach N. M, last night saying thar he was at the Nogales ra in Chihauhau, near the torder, at least forty-four m This telegram was signed ostensibly by Amerian caretaker of the ranch and stated that Villa p| sonally was at the ranch house. All the while, however, the Mexican bandit leader 1's men were road s army cam fight bega families of A. L. and that c El but not member: M. Pu through Licut. turned | the cat Mexica rushed nt to inch, che, a Shrieked out s ns i ove savagely railrond tre Major L fifteen mi Paso eman, the Shrieking battle making his way from Bosques twenty-five miles southwest of here. A Mexican scout gave an intimation of this. ported late last night that he saw two parties men moving eastward from Bosques Grandes Ranch ward Palomas, an abandoned Carranza outpost six mi directly south below here. Colonel H. J. Slocum, commanding Cavalry, has heavy patrcls out, and two troops of caval at Gibson’s Ranch, fifteen miles west. Carranza customs guards at the border miles south of Columbus. Liad dug a few rifle pits for ¢ fifty Carranza soldiers, who fled Palomas when Villa a peared in the vicinity severaldays ago. Villa Directs Murderous attack. apperently the line at this point, and the Carran- reported joined them, deploying in open order. Villa sent them up a_deep ditch _ | several Americans directing his i ning up from the border and kirting p. the custom n here of L. of either merchant, the hand. Battle men rwi hito ek in Riggs, Jager, and Southwest- officer Grandes Ranch, abd He of Vill the Thirteer gates thri the troops posted there. The of rifles woke Villa Dirccts Slaughter, first vy ley all the townspeag Villa is said to have been seen He El Paso to cut the telegraph wires east prevent any ul American troops stationed there. 4 telephone ! While hastily also went out of commil sion part of his for fo the Villa and rallied American (fod) is said to have detailed snig soldiers to fire houses. fioul throughout ia.al with bullets Riggs, his in the livin barricaded the town were wife and two quarters of the ot themselves bhehill on the floor. L. Jnmer and two children on the floor of t} building afd the tion McCullough an railvoad sta e In the sec house near! man 8. H and their four wi On Tenth Page.)