MEXICO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 5

MEXICO.

DISCUSSION IN AMERICAN CHAMBER. (Bi Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Pi 3 Press Association.) WASHINGTON, March 6. Mr W. J. Bryan informed the Foreign Affairs Committee that iv was unadvisablo to precipitate the Mexican discussion. Britain and other Powers had supported the United States'" policy. For reparation Mr Bryan insisted that there must, be punishment of those guilty of foreigners' losses. He had every confidence in the-in-vestigation ordered by Carranza. Representative Ainey demanded full information, deprecating the suggestion that the truth would be likely to inflame American people to demand war when they universally desired i>eace. A secret session of the Committee thereafter was held. HELD FOR RANSOM. ( MEXICO CITY, March 6. General Luis Terrazas has appealed to the United States to save his m>ii. who is held by General Villa for ransom of half a million peseios. (Terrazas declared he is penniless owing to the Constitutionalist* confiscating his immense wealth. The United States Consul is unable to act. The reliefs partially strangled his son until he (the son) personally agreed to pay half a million of hin own money, and the remainder was then demanded from the General. GERMAN CRITICISM.. Received March 7. 8.15 a.m. MERLIN, March 6. The newspapers strongly criticise ths Americans helplessness m Mexico. By permitting the importation of arme America has lent- practical supi*>rt to the plunderers. Botli "Villa and Carranza mock Europe and America. FURTHER ATROCITIES REPORTED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received March 7. 9.0 a.m. NEW \ORK, March 6. It is reported that the daughters of sn American doctor in Mexico, agc-d twenty and seventeen were carried off by Villa's rebels, and their mutilated bodies have been found. Other atrocities have also been perpetrated.