MEXICO
A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. CASUALTIES LIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. MEXICO CITY, March 4. The rebel gunboat at Tampico Is fighting the Federal warships Norelos and Guerrepo. The casualties are light. BENTON’S MURDER. LETTER FROM A SISTER. . {Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, March 4. A sister of Benton writing from Nice says : “We are apparently no nearer the identification of my brother’s body or enquiry into the manner of his death which must be the prelude to the punishment of the cynical ruffian who murdered him. Are these negotiations to be dragged out until public feeling has subsided and the. murder pass thus unavenged ? Can Englishmen and women no longer depend on their country for protection and redress?” CARRANZA ON BRITAIN. “THE WORLD’S BULLY." (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) MEXICO CITY, March 4. Carranza is reported 'to have stated the United States is being made a cat'spaw by Britain, which he characterised as the “world’s bully.” He declared that intervention in the Mexican situation would influence the whole of Latin America,
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Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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