MEXICO

Southland Times, Issue 17599, 11 March 1914, Page 5

MEXICO

HOW BENTON DIED. SHOT IN THE BACK. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. CONDON. March 9. Special telegrams state that Air Benton (the ranch-owner, and a British subject) was unarmed and was shot in the hack by General Villa (the rebel leader) and his aide-de-camp when leaving the room. The rebels' ferocious excesses are changing the feeling in North Mexico. THE VERGARAS TRAGEDY. TORTURE AND DEATH. NEW YORK. March !). An examination of Vergaras's body shows that a blow with a rifle butt crushed his skull, and that there wee gunshot wounds in the head. The- neck was mutilated and a burned hand indicated that he was tortured before death. Men, believed to he Texas Rangers, restored the body to the grave again. The commandant of Die Rangers denies that his men participated in such proceedings. AN INQUIRY ORDERED. U.S.A. POLICY DEFENDED. AVASHTNGTON, 'March 9. Mr Bryan'lias ordered an investigation into the question of the Texas Rangers entering Mexico, pointing out that such a proceeding was an act of war. The State Governor denies that the Rangers took any part in the proceedings, and the matter is wrapped in mystery. Senator Kails, in the Senate, pleaded that intervention in the Mexico trouble of the United States most necessary to prevent the inevitable war. Other countries. lie said, were not likely to he so complaisant as-the British in the Benton case. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee declared that those officials responsible for the foreign policy were doing everything possible to secure the solution of the problem without involving a war. ONE HUNDRED AMERICANS MURDERED. PRESENT POLICY' INEFFECTIVE. WASHINGTON. March !». Specific cliarge.s that a hundred Americans .have been murdered and outraged during the Mexican revolution were laid before the Senate by Senator. Falls, who urged the abandonment of the present policy as hopelessly ineffective.