AMERICA AND MEXICO.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17734, 6 December 1919, Page 11

AMERICA AND MEXICO.

BREAK IN RELATIONS

IMMINENT,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3

Senator Ashhurt, speaking in the Senate, said the United States ought to immediately mobilise in view of the threatening character of the Mexican forces on the American border. For five years the United States had stood unhead-of insults, and ought at least to nrotect Americans within America's border.

Senator Fall, speaking in the Senate, and referring to Bolshevistic literature, said the Meixcan diplomatic officers in the United States had distributed a book entitled "Conspiracy against Mexico." The author was an Australian named Arthur Thompson, and the book defended the Soviet Government. Senator Fall subsequently admitted that the State Department held proofs that Carranza approved of Thompson's book.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4

Senator Hitchcock, in the Senate, introduced a motion authorising a breach of diplomatic relations with Mexico enabling the president henceforward to act at his discretion.

The motion was referred to a committee.

Senator King, in the Senate, introduced a motion empowering the President to use the army and navy to enforce payment of the Mexican claims and damage to American citizens.

Mr Lansing is conferring with the Foreign Affiairs Committee, it is understood, in reference to Senator Fall's proposal for the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Mexico.