Mexico will ask for return of bandits

Nº 137

AHSRE L-E-935 F. 127

The Daily Express, San Antonio, Texas

28 de junio de 1908

Mexico will ask for return of bandits

Official of Mexican Government Gives Out Statement of the Trouble. Alleges that outbreak originated in Texas

Vice President Corral of Mexico Says Revolutionists Are Misguided Dupes of Malcontents in Various Parts of Texas-Thinks Trouble is Over.

Mexico City, june 27.- 'The uprising in the norhtern part of this Republic has now become the subject of International correspondence, and communications from Minister of Foreign Affairs Marescal were sent to the State Department at Washington today. This condition arose out of the fact that the raiders who shot up the town of Las Vacas yesterday are now on Texas soil and claiming the protection of the United States.

In an interview granted the correspondent of the Associated Press tonight Vice President Corral declare that the Government had succeeded in unraveling the conspiracy which prompted the recent attacks on the towns of Viesca and Las Vacas, in which a number of lives were lost, considerable property destroyed and $20,000 in cash secured by the looters.

Agitators in United States.

"This whole trouble has been caused," declared the Vice President, "by three irresponsible agitators and anarchists, who are at present residing in the United States. These men recently appealed to certain of the criminal and ignorant element of the border States of Mexico, inciting them to raid certain designated towns for the purpose of robbing the banks and Government offices under the plea that funds could be raised for the cause of an alleged revolution.

"It was planned to make a concerted attack on Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border town opposite El Paso, on C. P. Diaz, opposite Eagle Pass, on Las Vacas across the Río Grande from Del Rio, and on Viesca and a couple of other interior villages. The plan was to rob the banks and offices.

"The Mexican Consul at El Paso got wind of the affair and informed the municipal authorities, with the result-that the would-be raiders are now languishing in jail in that city".

"In all other places, with the exception of Viesca, and Las Vacas, the plans miscarried. In the attack on the latter place fifteen men were killed".