OROZCO IS DEFIANT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 5

OROZCO IS DEFIANT.

TOWARDS UNCLE SAM. EXECUTION OF AMERICANS BY TROOPS IN MEXICO. MAKES OUTLOOK SERIOUS. 6r Te'CETraph—Press Association— Copyright NEW YORE, August 1. Telegrams from El Paso, Texas, state that General Orozco, loader of the revolutionary movement in Northern Mexico, has informed the American Consul at Ciudad Juarez that ho does not recognise the United (States Government This is the General’s response to ro presentation 0 from Washington asking that Americans in the disturbed area should be afforded protection. There are now over 15U0 refugees from Mexico stranded at El Paso.

Scores of messages have been sent to Washington, urging protection of Americans in the insurrection zone. The tension of the situation is accentuated by reports that two American citizens were hanged near Cananea, in the State of Sonora. The American Consuls have been ordered to investigate the circumstances, and the Mexican Government is also making inquiries. It is believed at Mexico City that the executions wers carried out by Federal troops, with the idea of precipitating American intervention. State department officials at Washington regard the situation as serious. If it is learned that the hangings were the result of threats by Generals Orozco and Salazar, the rebel leaders, the United States Government may take drastic measures. Later advices from El Paso are to the effect that the men executed were S. Schuhent and S. Hurtling, both Germans.