IN MEXICO.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 1

IN MEXICO.

A REIGN OF TERROR

VILLA IN "A CAMPAIGN-OF HATE.''

Daily the situation in Mexico aplieais to bo becoming more intolerable, and every day new diabolical outrages are bemy eluoiMcled iv Hie American Press. Francesco Villi-, Uio bandit chief, now in. Western Chihuahua, defying the forces of tho Cairra.nza Government, is nslug the cry "Remember Orozco!" to stir up hatred agaihia't Americaiiti and gam reoruits for hiniBclf, according to foreigners who have I'oa.ohed the border near El Paso in Te_as. Geliierai Oro„co was Villa's most formidable 100 uiiibil tho laittor drove him across tho oorder into the United Slates after tho battle of Ojinaga, nearly two years..ago. Orozco was idiot la.nd killed la„b Sopleanber in Mi.« high Lonesoino niounttaiiuj, on, bluis side of the boundairy, some- time after he had forfeited tho bond under which he. wa.s being held as a violator of United States neutrality laws.- Villa, taking advantage of tlie circumstances of Orozco's death, is-declared to be tisutfi; hi.s name as a rallying cry for new recruits. Western Chihuahua was lhe home of Orozco, a.s well as that of Villa, a.nd the dead leaner had a laigo which is said to have been highly inflamed recently, when Villa iv formed 'them that Orozco bad been murdered in. Texas by A i ii or i cans. The reports ive.ro brought to the border by foreignei-.s who were iv Chihuahua City during the trying period just, before amd a,fter Villa, evacuated Iho capital. They declared that the C-a.rra.nza. army remained a> short dista.ur« out of the city for 48 hours while. Villa, prepared to ■abandon the place. Reports were currant, at the time that- Villa was to ho allowed to •escapo._ ' Thirty-six Americans were horded into prison just before Villa left the city, a, number of Chinese were shot, and the stores belomffing to them a.7ul fo Japanese, merchants were looted and burned. Villa, made a, point, they said, of not •threatening Englishmen and Gormnixs. 'Hio bandrjf, chief announced that he intended to hold the Americans u-nitil they paid over .'IO.OOO dollars, but they were finally released when Villa was told (ha t freeing them wn« (he only condition under which he would be allowed to enter ihe FTiin'ied States if he were forced to fee northward.