Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 23, 1916, Page 1

Clash-at Carrizal Has Gravely Strained Relations With 1o de Facto Authorities of Mexico A ‘AWI(NISTRATION AWAITING OFFICIAL REPORT All Information So Far Has Come From Mexican Sources— | tne Making Every Effort to Get Word | bridse . General Pershing is From the Detachment of Tenth Cavalry Believed to Have Been Engaged at Carrizal—No Steps Toward Reprisal Will be Taken Until Pershing’s Report Has Been Care- fully Considered—First Step Would be to Demand the Release of the Seventeen American Troopers Now In- terned at Chihuahua. Washington, June 322.—One fact Btood out tonight at the close of a day §8¢ many developments in the Mexican crisis. Apparently both the United States government and the de facto :hom.lu of Mexico hope to treat ' g st Curtizal yesteray as an gravely straine But not of itselt likely to Seneral hostilities. Administration Awaiting Report. So far as the Washington adminis- tration is concerned, no final decision can be reached until President Wil- #0n has received a report on the fight from American army officers. All in- formation so far has come from Mexi- can sources. Generai Pershing is making every effort’to get-word froin the detach- ment of the Tenth Cavalry believed to Hiave been engaged at Carrizal A~ despatch from General Funston lais today safd Pershing had heard of the fleld headquarters. only through reports from Cavalry started immediately to get in touch ~with the detachment which is supposed to be returning toward the fleld base at Co- nia Dublan, more than sixty miles rom the scene of the fighting. Preparations for Possible War. (uBvents movea ewitlly Nere during ropean lnl\l Mot to persist :‘nlcollm certain ring on a con- Hopeful of Peaceful. Outcome. It is known, that many officials here have not abandoned hope of a peace- ul outcome, although they admit that each day since the present friction be- E:n has seen new clouds gather. Their d s against war are based solely on rts that have reached them in- that the Carranza government ¢ to seek a peaceful way out. (- No Doubt of Casualties. ‘The Carrizal incident of course, overshadows now all other develop- ments. Although they have only Mex. {1can reports to go upon, officials do ts ' that many cavalrymen were killod, wounded or captured. In view of the orders given American commanders in Mexido, however, they refute the e that the commander of the de- it was the aggressor. tever the facts may prove to be Pershing’s report ar- m it 18 certain that no steps to- mmu will be taken at least t Teport has been carefully Ono the first actions, however, would be to demana the releass of tae to have been captured. is ‘it probable there will be llate move as a result of the incident hf‘ ann(lhy Mazatlan, Mexican soldiers rgade an un- :kav&ul attack k on Ameri¢an bluejack- according to = official report to today from the mudc of the (unbvnl Annapolis. @iven Opportunity to Explain. t is deemed probable that should ing’s repart on the Car- Carranza n officlally ed attention of the U'nited States lovermk - expected here tonight. The United States battichmip Nebraska has room for very few more rerugees. Vera surances are being given the first chief Cnrs remains tranquil. The troops anldthe people are expectantly await- ing! orders from General Carranza. Mammoth demonstrations are. being held throughout Mexico, at which as- that the Mexican nation has full faith ih him and his actions. ~ There has been no demonstration here, how: ever ,and Colonel Gonzasmo de la Ma- ta, commanding the forces at Vem Cruz and_Colonel Lopez thus far have preserved absolits o der. The schools are still in se: sion. W. W. Canada, the American consul, is av ting the arrival here of Americans from the interior. There are no vessels fm the A Spanish lner and the American steamer Monterey are expected here Saturday. MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES TAKE CANANEA COPPER PLANT Have Promised to Protest Property anuod at uo.m.m acty “mabion dofins. ‘Cananea Consotdates at Ca cern, has the ‘municipal Suthorttier of Sonora, who % 0. it, according (n & message recelve {xem todl)l; by Delbert J. Haff, an at- orney, who- represents company. Mr. Haff announced that all the Amer- ican employes had crossed the border after the property had been given into the keeping of the local officlals the secretary and treas: of the company. A Mexican named Moreno, an old employe, was left in Cananea to handle the company’s money. “The property is being" thomurhly protected,” Mr. Haff said. “A -large number of General Calles’ troops are at Cananea and we have no fear for the plant.” TENTH TROOPERS TELL OF UNPROVOKED ATTACK Pershing Has Transmitted Their Story to General Funston. San Antonio, Texas, June 22.—Strag- glers from the Tenth Cavalry detach- ment that was in the fight at Ca rizal arrived at General Pershing’s headquarters today and told him that the fighting began_ with an - unpro- voked attack on the Americans - at the conclusion of a.parley with the Mexican commander. General Pe shing_transmitted their story to Gen eral Funston tonight, who immediate- 1y referred it to the war department. Wty TENSION RENEWED AT NOGALES, ARIZONA. With the Sudden Mounting of a Bor- der Guard on the Mexican Side. of a border guard on the Mexican side of the line this af- Tucson train and the warning by thé Mexican consulate to Mexican store employes to collect their wares and wages and make ready to leave, tension was re- newed here, and a telegram was sent to President Wilson asking that mar- tial law be declared. AMERICAN SEAMEN FIRED UPON WITHOUT PROVOGATION, Commander Kavanagh of Gunboat Annapolis Sends Report. Washington, June 22.— Commander e ToPor: "redchin e navy Bepart: ment today on the incident at Mazat- Jan Sunday, when & boat fom the A Dapolis was fired on and two o Americsn facked without ot B ut provocat 5 ptif s Unlmn IAND!T VILLA NEGOTIATING WITH CARRANZA OFFICERS At Escalon, Chihuahua—Asks Com- mission in Mexican Army. - l&—lt was Te- 9}.’:‘:‘ ma...““"’“ ,..,."“"'“m. vlllt Chih with Carranza meb Slon in the Mevican Army. 2 m—The rul-.:um SLan v ot umwn:m:hi:;dhmd Pondent Som. the, Bpeaish . capiial. ghnctkulfluhrkmuvod. HAI’l‘FOID OAVE TROOP B A ROUSING SENDOFF As They Started on Their Mounts for 58 Mile Ride to Niantic. automatics, applauded everywhere along its line of mlrd:. he baggage of the troops was all smnpsd away by motor truc kearly Camp for e night will sster. “Twenty new pending the will be ready today. They will pro- ceed to Niantic train or otherwise early tomorrow. The troops expect to reach Niantic Friday afternoon. ENLISTMENTS ARE NOT COMING .FAST ENOUGH. Both the First and Second Regiments Are Several Hundred Men Short. New Haven, Conn., June 22.—Enlist- ments in the infantry branch of the national guard of Connecticut are not coming fast enough, according to ranking officers toda¥, and this fact may delay sending the Frist and Sec- ond regiments to Niantic for some days. Squads of men With their arms were sent to factory gates this noon to - interview young men who might feel like “thinking over” the matter of enlistment. The Second regiment, Iike the First, is short several Gundred men in all, although some companies are filling up their ranks well. At the armory here today there was discussion over the paragraph in the militia_law which would permit Goy- ernor ‘Holeomb to draft men into ser- vice if men are needed for defense of state and nation. PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION AND PARADE IN MERIDEN Emgh Recrul &ellnd to Fill Qllell Mili thegt lied af "the armory for nmnl.ldll 1 and L of the Tection of Mayor Joseph A. Cooke. Enough recruits have now been se- cured to make the quota of each com- pany over the required peace num- ‘ber. Preceding the demonstration was a street parade in which both com- panies took part. The two companies expect to entrain at ‘Niantic before Sunday. MEXICAN CONSUL AT ~ PALOMAS UNDER ARREST Pending Investi Neutral on of Violation of Charges. Columbus, N. M, June 22. — Sayel Luis Sandoval, Mexican consul at Palomas, eight miles south of here, was arrested by state department offi- cials here today as he was boarding a train for El Peso. He is being detain- ed pending investigation of violation of neutrality charges. His family was permitted to leave town. The Mexitan customs officers at Palomas have gone south on pack mules. The customs house was aban- doned today. MEMORANDUM SENT SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. Nations Notified That U. 8. is Not to Intervene in Mexican Affairs. wnshmgmn. June 22. — Secretary Lansing today sent a memorandum to the diplomatic represontatives of Sowth and Central American nations review- ing the situation existing between the United States “and Mexico and an- nouncing that if hostilities should eventuate the purpose of .the United States would be to defend itself against further invasion and not intervene in Mexican affairs. HIGH CLASS SADDLE HORSES BOUGHT IN MERIDEN For the Use of Officers of Troop B of Hartford, Meriden, Conn., June 22—Eleven high class saddle horses were pur- chased here today by the ofllcen of Troop B of Hartford from B. L. Ken- wvard. The animals wem of the highest/] Class in New England and were the AMERICAN EXODUS FROM ; MEXICO CITY TO VERA CRUZ. Refugees Will Be Furnished With Transportation to the United States. ‘Washington, June H—Cmtfl Can- today tha SUCH 1S ALLEGED IN ADVICES RECEIVED FROM MEXICO. 3 VON RINTELEN ACTIVE One Motive Advanced is That in-Case of War the United States Would Stop the Shipment of Munitions from America. ‘Washington, June 22—Advices re- from | celved here from Mexico allege that the German representatives there have ning in that country, The form of encouragement was-said to have been moral rather than material. Germans Well Treated in Mexico. The reports further declare that German citizens in Mexico are being treated with-great consideration, their property being not molested. ' Some Americans haave taken advantage of the favors accorded by Germans by placing thelr property in the hands of German friends upon leaving Mexico. This information was discloséd by a competent authority in connection with information concerning the activity in Mexican affairs of Captain Franz Von Rintelen, now ~under _indictment in New York for conspiracy to foment strikes in American munitions plants, and under arrest in England. Activity of Von Rintelen. Von Rintelen is known by the au- thority mentioned as well as by gov- ernment officials to have most active in'Mexican affairs. "His activi- ties began at the time Villa and Car- ranza were at odds and when Huerta went to the border to plot to obtain the government. Rintelen today was described as having been prompted. by iiree motives in endeavoring to_stir up trouble between the United States and Mexico, although ~primarily his activities were eaid to have been di- rected against the entente allies and not against the United States, To Divert Shipment of Munitions. ‘The information obtained leads offi- clals to belicve that Von Rintelen thought that by starting a dispute be- tween the United States and Mexico unition - shipments - from America would be stopped, that the United States would be t60 busy to pursue the Submarine controversy and that the allied navies would be prevented from securing fuel oil and gasoline from e Mexican flelds. be found to prevent the pl-n. of Von Rintelen from being realized. Associates of Von Rintelen. The names of Ferido Staliforth ‘of New York, a former banker #n Mexico, and Andrew C. Meloy, also of New York, ar¢ mentioned in lon with that of Von Rintelen. forth, who was said to have been umchted with Von Rintelen in Mexico, was called before the federal grand jury in New York to testify as to h activma'. Von _ Rintelen, while In' this country, maintained headquarters in Stalifortis offices. He is understood to have de- nied any connection with Mexican in- trigues, but was remanded to jail over | tri night for contempt in refusing to an- swer certain guestions before the jury, Meloy also was associated with Von Rintelen in Mexico. . He was indicted in New York on the charge of having chbiained a false passport foi. . Von Rintelen, “Wolf of Wall Street” Mentioned. Another mame mentioned with Von Rintelen's was that of David Lamar, sometimes called the “Wolf of Wall street,” and indicted with him. Lamar ing. b ity HELD FI!I.D FOI FW& HOUM BEFORE RET!EATING. Bodies of Captain Boyd _and -Lieut. Adair and at Least Eleven of the Negro' Troopers Are Said to Have /Been Seen on the Field. _ M., June 23. — The troop’ of the Tenux lvnlry clashed with Car; at Carrizal held the fold for . fve hours before retreating, although they. were outnumbered five to ~ one, = ac- to, imofcial reporta here to- night. ° The reports said that- the A ranicann only withdrew when heavy Maxican reinforcements were brought uys Yt was learned that courler. from the battlefield reached General Pershing's field headquarters at Colojia Dublan state today and - the expeditionary commander's report is expected over the army wirelss momentarily, MORE TROOPS TO BE. ORDERED TO NIANTIC Company M of Torrington and Bat- tery F of Stamford. Hartford, Conn., June 22.—-Company M, Second Infantry of Torrington, and Battery F, Fleld Artillery of Stam- ford, will probably be ordered tomor- row to start for the state camp at N: antic, it was announced from the ad jutant general tonight. - Both orga izations reported to Adjutant Cole t day that they had reeruited t ofl required strength. Company M re. ported an enroliment of 150 men and Battery F, 171 The departure of the First Connec- ticut Field company, Signal Troops and Troop B, Fifth Military Cavalry, for the state camp were other devel- opments of the day. Every effort is being. made by the commanding of- ficers to recruit their commands to full strength so that the movement for Niantic. may be begun. Both the First anr Second regiments are still several hundred short of the 1,836 which Ceneral Cole has said they must register before they can be or- dered to the concentration base. Tn this city tonight companies of the First Infantry were paraded through the principal streets with a view of increasing the Interest in the recruit- It was announced, that the old 1l in t: center of the city opened. fomorrow as & Te- B ot teckion oo | sirike: at. & Haven a determ: made to get re- Both the First and Second regiments now have about 1,100. DICK-ASTOR MARRIAGE AT BAR HARBOR, ME. Only Members of the Two Families and a Few Intimate Friends Present. PBar Harbor, Me, June 22.—Mrs. JFohn Jacob Astor and William K. Dick of New York, were married at St. Sa- viour's Episcopal church here today by the Rev. A. C. Larned, the rector. Only the members of the two families and a few intimate friends attended the ceremony. The bride wore a dark blue serge traveling suit and a black straw hat. Mr. and Mrs. Dick left immediate- ly after the ceremony on a western p. They will return within _a month and will spend. the remainder of the summer at ‘Islecote,® Mrs. Dick's_ place here. A is said kero to have obtained a large Sum of money from Von Rintelen to be used in promoting certain plans in re- d to Mexico and dock service in lew York. So far as known in Wash- ington, Lamar performed no services commensurate with the sum of money he is said to have received. .-.- a»,v ATIDEY- 1 Vi - St S B S 'mn-.uuuan-h-cmcap per Co. in Mexico have been shut down. Many bombs re thrown ri- oting By textie "‘mum"’“fou Coal and coke shipments of the in May increas- 4 874,077 tons. et Immelman the. famous Ger- aviator, is reported to have been Killed n setion: Capt. Frank H. ‘Mason, former American - Consul died there, aged 78. General in Paris, One woman was killed and a nnmber of bulldings wrecks by a tol near Allendale, T The Allied er Bazaar in New York Cly closed with British-French-Bel- glan Blind Fund Day. Vermont’s infantry regiment, called out for Mexican border.. d\lty,"h en- camped at Fort Bthan Allen, Vt. Secretary of fiu Navy Dlnlolc ad- dressed the National Editorial Associ- ation In convention In New Fork City. were conferred on 98 unlm at the 122nd commencement of ‘Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. The Treasury Dej rnncm will allow national banks the Mexican Border to remove their gold to imiand points. Directors of the Ch Chicago Board of Trade voted to close from noon Sat- g‘flrdays July 1, to Wednesday morning, ly 5. The Senate voted to continue the pneumatie tube service in the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia ard Chicago. A $6,000000 order for eclectrical equipment for the new dreadnought California, was received by the General Electric Co. A bill making school - attendance compulsory for all children between the ages of 7 and {14 was passed by the Louisiana Senate. Arriving at New York hvm Chris- steamship Oscar II re- ported having all her mail taken off by the British at Kirkwall " ‘Unicn langshoremen resumed their aereage and that of cante- 1s reported by the De- of ARgriculture. I line by the Standard Oil Co. of !n'-'dlnu Jiet. outt Easremnit l.ooo 000 galions over the same period in 1915. Attornty-General Gregory is being mentioned in Washington as the prob- able successor Charles E. iiughes as Justice of the Supreme Court. The Boston & Maine Railroad an- nounced that it would hold open the positions of all its men who have been ordered out for military duty. One million dollars is bequeathed to Presbyterian charital and educational institutions in the will of Charles W. Kolb, probated at Philadelphia. Work on a rush order for 500 000 pounds of cooked corned boef shipped to San Antonio was -uuud by Morris & Co., Chicago packers. Me: n Consul Sierra, at Naco, Ariz., has ordered all the Mexicans out of the Warren district. The consul stated it was purely precautionary. John P. Whi kmzflnna.l pres- ident of the United Mine Workers, ordered 32,000 striking miners in the b district to return to work. A maj of the Berlin newspaper proprieors have decided to reduce the size of their publications from July 1, owing to the increasing cost of paper. session of the Vermont leglsiature will be called t provide for additional pay for the miilitia if .they are held long in the Federal service. Testing out new steel biplanes for border use, Oscan of 500 feet a minute in trials at Squantin, Ralph 8. Stubbs, general eastern t agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad, resigned to. become _traffic manager of the American Sugar Re- fining Co. Are Being Vigorously Shelled by the Teu portant Changes on the Austro-ltalian Has Yielded to the Ultimatum of the and Has Demobilized Her Army. The Germans and Austrians in Vol- hynia are vigorously on the offensive against the Russians and ngly have stopped, for the time being at least, the Russian drive westward, Along the Stokhod river, west of the Styr in the region of Sokul, and still farther west around l(yllk sanguinary ensagements® are e mu-u.n war office says the Germans and Austrians Bave beon Pepuised. while Denitn doc clared that on both sides of the Turia river and southward from Sviniaukhi to Grochow the Ri driven farther back and that northwest of Lutsk the Russian attempts to dis- pute German successes were without Tesult. On ‘the Stripa in Galicia the Rus- have taken portions of the trenches of the Teutonic allles near Gaivoronka and farther south in Buko- wina have driven their forces forward southward and captured Radautz, about thirty miles below Czernowitz and taken more officers, men and guns. north of the Pripet Marshes to the region of Riga the Germans again have opened what apparently is a gen- eral offensive, heavily bombarding the Russian positions or throwing violent infantry attacks against them. While Berlin reports nothing except success- ful German patrol incursions, Petro- the bridgehead - dow g -San Francisco and T o S ISins hnd " otaing ves: | Kuswan positions arer i declared to have failed, except near Krevo, where the Germans crossed the PROGRESSIVE LEADERS IN HARMONY WITH REPUBLICANS Continue Conferences With Hughes at New York Headquarters. New York, June 22.—Progressive and republican leaders _working for barmiony between the parties continued their conferences today with Charles E. Hughes at his temporary headquar- ters here. Two of the nominee’s call- ers, James R. Garfield, of Ohio, a pro- gressive leader, and Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, special deputy attorney general for the prosecution of anti- trust cases in Roosevelt's administra- tion, called on Colonel Roosevelt im- mediately after seeing Mr. Hughes. No official word was forthcoming as to what, if any, progress had been made. . Colonel Roosevelt's - attitude, Mr. Hughes was told, will be stated to the pi ve national committee at Chicago mest Monday. The organiza- tion - sub-committee of the republican national committee, which will appoint a national chairman, - probably ~will meet soon thereafter. Chairman e e oF that wis-tcaimitine: was the first of Mr. Hughes' callers tod ay. Major General Leonard Wood, sug- gested by Mr. Roosevelt as a com- Promise candidate for the republican presidential candidate, spent 15 min- utes with Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes devoted tonight largely to answering some of the thousands of letters that have accumulated here. Saturday he will leave for his tem- porary summer home at Bridgehamp- ton, N. Y. DUTCH ARE BEING EXPELLED FROM ODESSA Unlou Thly Can Prove Their Non- German Origin. Amsterdam, Netherlands, .Yun- 22— A contract was closed by the Orient- [ German origin. al Navigation Co. to move and _ship 15,000 tons of steel biilets bo. Foxia. where they will b converted in Pprojectiles. William Lonsdale, a British prison- or-o!-wu. serving a sentence of ::l.: r striking a hg.I.mrd at the Dob- prison camp, been pardoned by the Kalser. ‘The death by dmmin. at Gl.-l wich of lglwll McLoughlin . A considerable number of members 15| of the Anabaptist or Mennonite sect left their loln- in the numern Dutch of Friesland in the uun- teenth eentm’! for Germany in order Frederick IL (17“-“) ‘wanted force them int service have been | the the west On both sides of n.p v fortress in the Wolnp the region of Verdun; a: t)ul(euuhflh.(h. M ily bombarding’ F ‘Thieumont, ahnpn:e and Fort Lay r-attack the French from the Germans mo Germans e night between the } Chenots, northwest of The Germans near 17 AMERICAN R INTERNED A'l’a General Jacinto Americans if They the were captured m’g rizal, were commanded’ the T‘leute‘ntgt Henry R. in the shoulder, In anmouncing ;t:lrl-‘ybot th&whm. - ‘him, msmct of the Gomez did at Gfl-rlfl. General Trevino t] muc mnmuz. -C Spl’l]lbnry'l story, as General REINFORCEMENTS. RI Mexican Bandits Were Th v