MEXICO.
INTERVENTION URGED, TEN MORE AMERICANS KILLED. (By —Pms Association.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 14. Mr Roosevelt demands immediate intervention in MexicoT President Wilson has communicated with General Carranza demanding the immediate punishment of the Villa bandits, . and urging the despatch of troops to other districts where American lives and property are imperilled Ckrranza has agreed to do his best to punish the murderers.. "A party of fourteen Americans who went to search for the bodies of the eighteen men who were killed, • were accompanied by .a Mexican military escort and machine-guns. They found the corpses stripped and piled in a heap, and brought them to El Paso. They also brought the news that Villa's followers had killed ten Americans arid (.two Englishwomen, one the wife of Cap-, tain Leftbridge, a retired army officer I at Chihuahua.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15489, 17 January 1916, Page 5
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