MEXICO.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 3

MEXICO.

MURDER OF AMERICANS. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 13. In connexion with the shooting «<r eighteen Americans in Mexico, the outrase i'x regarded a a reprisal by Villa's partisans m revenge for the United States recognising General Carranza, and thereby making him all powerful. The British Vice-Consul at El Pasa has obtained- a statement that Villa personally led the massacring party. An eye-ivitne'ss who escaped, says that a party of twenty-eight men stopped and boarded the train, lined up the passengers on the track, and shot down eighteen men, including a Canadian. T'hcv then looted the train of £14,000. Other sources state that after Villa's defeat in the late revolution lie threatened the Americans, who were then taking refuge in the Sierra Madre mountains, and was only awaiting an opportunity to carry out his threat.