MURDERS IN MEXICO
REVENGE ON UNITED STATES.
Uy Telcerapb—Press Association—Caoyrieul WASHINGTON, January 13. In connection with the shooting of Americacns in Mexico, the outrage is regarded as a reprisal by Villa's partisans and revenge on tbe United States for recognising Carranza, thereby making him ali-<powerful. The British Vice-Consul at El Paso has obtained a statement that Villa personally led the" massacre party. An eye-witness who escaped says that a party of twenty-eight stopped and boarded a train, lined up the passengers on the track, and shot down' eighteen, including a Canadian. Tbe bandits looted the train of £14,000. Other sources state that after Villa's defeat in the late revolution he threatened Americans, and then took refuge in the Sierra Madre mountains, awaiting an opportunity to carry out hif threat.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9248, 15 January 1916, Page 7
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