THE KIDNAPPED CONSUL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 56, 29 November 1919, Page 9

THE KIDNAPPED CONSUL

—— ,v - MEXICAN NOTE TO AMERICA.Mexico City, November 27. Tho Mexican Government has sont a Note to the United States, stating that iE is impossible to accede to the request of the United States for the release of Mr. Jenkins; In a Note t« tho United States Government in reference to the kidnapping of Mr. Jenkins, who was ransomed from the bandits, the Mexican Government savs that, there is no legal foundation or urincinlo of .international law in tho demand of tho United States for the releaso of Mr. Jenkins—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. iMr. William Jenkins, United SUtes Consul at Pueblo, Mexico, was kiolnapped 'by three masked bandits c in October. and was held to ransom, with a demand for ,£30,000. The. Mexican Government notified the United States State Department that it would do all it could to secure his release. On October "25 it was reoorted that the Unileo: States had seut a Noto to Mexico demanding that the Mexican . authorities should' brine about the immediate release of Mr. Jenkins, if necessary by paying the ransom. The ransom was paid, and the consul was released; but it wns not reoorted who had paitf it. An official statement was maoe, however, that tho ransom was not paid by tho Mexican Government, and the State Department declined to demand that Mexico should lie asked to reimburse thoso who had mid it. It was reported on November 21 that the United States -had sent, a Note to Mexico, stating that any furtW. molestation of Mr. Jenkins would seriouslv affect tho relations between the United States and Mexico.]