THE MEXICAN CRISIS
ROOSEVELT DEMANDS WAR
Bjr Tolecraph—Press Association—Ooprrl*hl WASHINGTON, January U. Mr Theodore Roosevelt demands immediate intervention in Mexico. President Wilson will bo content 11 President Carranza punishes the bandits. Preei'lent Carranza promises to do his best. TWO ENGLISHWOMEN SHOT. WASHINGTON, January 14. President Wilson has communicated with President Carranza, demanding the immediate punishment of the Villa bandits, and urging the dispatch of troops to other districts where American lives.and property are imperilled. A party of fourteen Americans, who went to search for the bodies ot eighteen killed, were accompanied by a Mexican military escort and. ma-chine-guns. They found the corpses stripped and piled in a heap. They brought them to El Paso, and also bronght news that Villa’s followers had killed tea Americans and two English women, one the wife of Captain Lethbridge, a retired Army officer, at Chihuahua.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9249, 17 January 1916, Page 6
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141THE MEXICAN CRISIS New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9249, 17 January 1916, Page 6
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