MEXICO.
j *——- j A NOTE TO AMERICA. MEXICO CITY.. November 27. A Note sent by the Mexican Government, to the United States, justifying Jenkins's imprisonment, conclude.-: "Jenkins .signed contradictory deehua- | lions regarding h.is> kidnapping, and t-he Mexican Court v has enough, evidence, to j iupport a charge of per jury which ; would justify Jenkins's detention. This. '. however, is not meant to say that Jenkins is guilty. That could only be determined after trial. No Government could make diplomatic representations for one of its citizens except in the cose of a miscarriage of justice. Neither ! in the United States nor in Mexico j could a citizen, on trial be released by order of the executive. It would he | htrango if m Mexico an American chi- ! ;'.en enjoyod more rights than in Ids' otvn country-"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 5
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